Remember those ads in the backs of comic books for GRIT, the amazing yet seldom-seen publication with which "fellows" could run their own business and achieve happiness and prosperity and earn (probably) chintzy prizes? "Super Marketing: Ads from the Comic Books" has a delightfully superannuated GRIT ad online, as well as scans of ads for favorites like Charles Atlas (where the muscled bully kicks sand on the 98-pound weakling, motivating said weakling to become a muscled bully himself with help from the Charles Atlas bodybuilding system) and Amazing Live Sea Monkeys ("a BOWLFUL of HAPPINESS").
(Seems like happiness was in general short supply, no?)
So I've seen with my own eyes Amazing Live Sea Monkeys and muscled bullies (both really close up, and one more uncomfortably close than the other). But I've never seen a copy of GRIT.
Have you?
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