Our Hyper-Masculine Past

Dirk The Demon (24th Century Archaeologist) only appeared in two issues of Amazing Mystery Funnies back in 1938, but what a manly young man he was!  Dirk's creator, Bill Everett,  had considerably more success with The Sub-Mariner.

You Can't Beat Our Meat

Vegetarians be damned.  This ad from the year 1944 tells us what we already knew: that the secret to a strapping, healthy body is meat, and lots of it.