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Michael Arndt
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Posted: 19 August 2016 at 1:48pm \| IP Logged \| 1

INVISIBLE HELMET!!!

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Posted: 19 August 2016 at 4:48pm \| IP Logged \| 2

How about this one?

The Original Isometrics Training Program - The Charles Atlas System

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Posted: 20 August 2016 at 7:30am \| IP Logged \| 3

I've never seen an invisible helmet. (Paraphrased and stolen from "Time Bandits.")

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Posted: 20 August 2016 at 7:35am \| IP Logged \| 4

Great ads from everyone!

I think the toy ads, though appealing, well I already had toys like that. What really appealed to me were the ads for courses. I loved the one where someone quit their dead-end job (a photo strip!) because they'd gone to night school to get an electronics qualification.

I can't find it via Bing images, but Pele had a soccer fan club (may have been called Pele Soccer Fan Club) advertised in many comics. How disappointing when you saw "US/Canada only".

I think part of my reason for wanting to move to the US as a kid was to take advantage of all those things that were only available in North America!

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Posted: 20 August 2016 at 8:44am \| IP Logged \| 5

The Charles Atlas ad was certainly iconic. But it made me a little sad that the kid does all that weightlifting (which all occurs off screen between two panels) just to impress this rather shallow, rude girl.

Is this b*tch really worth the effort?

At least there are two other women who immediately take approving notice of Mac after he sucker assaults the Bluto knucklehead.

=Hero of The Beach=

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Posted: 20 August 2016 at 9:51am \| IP Logged \| 6

Rick,you are right,she was definitely not worth it! Being bought up on the likes of Mary Jane,Gwen Stacy,Janet Van Dyne etc i aspired to women with a little more depth!

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Posted: 20 August 2016 at 12:25pm \| IP Logged \| 7

There is a different version of that ad where, instead of subscribing to a Charles Atlas bodybuilding course, he clashes with the bully over comics. Instead of punching him at the end, he shows about 3 comics and puts them near the bully's face.

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Posted: 21 August 2016 at 8:52am \| IP Logged \| 8

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Posted: 22 August 2016 at 11:10am \| IP Logged \| 9

How many comics got cut up because of this ad (which ran all summer one year)?

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Posted: 22 August 2016 at 11:22am \| IP Logged \| 10

Thanks Rick. :)

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