Monday, January 31, 2011

Manic Monday--Tall Up, Bro!!

Welcome back to Physical Fitness Day here at Slay Monstrobot!!

You know, all of those Charles Atlas-type ads seems to want you to get bigger--more muscles--or smaller--lose weight instantly!!

Yet most of those ads have ignored the single most important physical need in the American populace:

Yes, you can add two to six inches in a few short weeks...and comic book ads wouldn't lie to you, would they?

Best of all--absolutely no work whatsoever seems to be required:

And if can't trust the English and the Swiss--who are, of course, renowned for their great height--whom can you trust??

Even more best of all? New slang from yesterday that you can use today to seem hip and/or fly:

Tall up, dude!!

Still, before you spring for $7.98, you might want to know that another ad in the same comic book makes the same promises...but for only 25¢!!

And still a third ad runs the price up to 35¢, for far less specific promises. Yet, they know the rad lingo:

Which to choose? Which to choose??

Click on the image below the view the ad in its fully embiggened size:

Ads from Amazing Spider-Man #196 (1979).

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