1947 ad: Mush Muscle Marvin

Why eat actual food, when you could just eat two slices of bread and leave it at that? Especially since it contains all mental health power of sardines.

In the end, Mush Muscle turns into a bread-enabled powerhouse, shattering wrist bones of his opponents while his parents – and their twin siblings, who also married – cheer him on. He’s Mower Downer Marvin now. Wait until he gets his hands on a tommy gun.

He might have some advice for the fellow in our next cartoon. Click on . . .