#charles atlas

[fitsofgloom]

Dig It If You Can

In Just Seven Days,

I Can Make You A Man!

[marypickfords]

Hail the New Puritan (Charles Atlas, 1986)

[gameraboy2]

"Hey Skinny! Yer Ribs are Showing!" 1952 Charles Atlas ad

[milksockets]

'the hanged one' by charles atlas, 1997 in art21: art in the twenty-first century (2003)

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Charles Atlas ad. Hey Skinny...yer ribs are showing!

[mentaltimetraveller]

Charles Atlas, Tesseract 3D, 2017, stereoscopic 3D digital video, color, sound, 43 minutes.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Charles Atlas (born Angelo Siciliano) struts his stuff by lifting four Rockettes, each weighing about 110 lbs., on the roof of Radio City Music Hall, September 10, 1937.

Photo: Bill Meurer for the NY Daily News

[enthusiastick]

“It's not going to surprise you to learn that ‘Charles Atlas’ was not his real name (because that's not anyone's real name.) What is funny is that his real name also sounds fake; he was born Angelo Siciliano (which sounds like what JK Rowling would have named an Italian wizard.)”

– Robert Evans, Behind the Bastards, Part Two: The History of American Masculinity Grifters

[jstor]

Pages from a Charles Atlas leaflet from 1939 promoting a correspondence course with instructions how "in just 7 days YOU can have a body like mine." Leopardskin trunks not included.

From the Open: Wellcome Collection on JSTOR. 100K+ open access images, no login needed.

It's late already so let's start tomorrow morning and check in next week to see if the course worked, shall we?

[browsethestacks]

Vintage Comic - Feature Stories Magazine #03

Pencils: ?

Inks: ?

Fox Features Syndicate (Aug1950)

[the-insidious-dr-grey-matter]

[interzona-discord]

[marypickfords]

Hail the New Puritan (Charles Atlas, 1986)

[gameraboy2]

1952 Charles Atlas ad

[milksockets]

charles atlas in art21: art in the twenty-first century (2003)

[patheticesque]

Turning Portraits (2020), by Charles Atlas.