Manic Monday Bonus--Billy=Charles Atlas?!?

You know all those damned Charles Atlas ads that used to fill our comic books?

Well, it turns out that the scenario was pretty real--at least according to the lead story in Forbidden Worlds #69 (1958).

Billy, you see, is a pretty weak guy, and...

See? In the rugged 1950s, if you weren't a manly man, you couldn't hold a job, and the dames weren't interested.

(For the record, Charles Atlas ads came first--they started appearing in funnybooks in the early 1940s...)

So how does Billy solve his problem? Well, this is a science fiction comic book, so I'd expect a science-ficitional solution--and no, it's not Flex Mentallo. Stay tuned...

Charles Atlas Was Wrong!

As we saw earlier today, Jughead is so remarkably scrawny that he that merely gazing at his pasty flesh in a swimsuit can cause even friends and family to go mad!!

But, that scrawniness begs an important question:




Yeah, where does all that food go??

Well, if you remember the classic Charles Atlas ads, where the skinny guy gets the crap kicked out of him by the big guy at the beach:

...you're in for a big surprise. Because Charles Atlas was full of crap!! The true story went a little something like this:







"Dynamic tension" my ass!! So how did Jughead do it? We'll let resident comic book expert Betty explain:


Yup, Jughead is really Matter-Eater Lad! Someone call the Legion!!

From Jughead #257 (1976)