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Martial Arts Ads in Comic Books
Defend Yourself! Aicondo		Aicondo Black Belt	An early Bernarr Macfadden ad
Another early Macfadden ad		Aicondo Black Belt	A Count Dante "Dim Mak" ad
A Count Dante "Dim Mak" ad, sans 'fro		Another 'fro-free Count Dante "Dim Mak" ad	The legendary, long-running Count Dante "red" ad
Jiu Jitsu, The Secret Weapon You Can Have!		Defend Yourself! with Ketsugo	The Power of Self-Defense!
Overcome Any Attack!		Kung Fu Is Deadlier than Judo!	Don't Be Bullied!
The Master's Complete Course of Kung Fu		The mysterious Master X	Join the Ninja Society!
Learn the secrets of the Orient's deadliest killers!		Police jiu jitsu makes you a WINNER!	Use the 3-Power System!
Learn self-defense American style! (quite possibly one of the worst ads ever)		The secret power of kung fu!	Learn Karate!
Learn kung fu AND karate!		Karate, judo, jiu jitsi AND savate!	See a man break a pile of stuff!
Talk to the hand!		A Wallace Reumann ad	Another Reumann add in which he appears to use magnetic powers to repel an attacker!
Yet another Reumann ad, in which one can order a practice dummy		A Joe Weider ad	"Fear No Man," another Weider spot
What IS ninja, anyway?		A karate ad that includes yoga practice	Mitch Fleming's Yubiwaza ad
Fleming's wife boasts of the deadly abilities she gained through Yubiwaza		A Weider ad polite enough not to spell out HELL!	EXCLUSIVE! A Web-only sidebar to the print edition's story!
This parody ad was written by the late, great Steve Gerber.		This ad likely features the "masked marvel" that Count Dante was calling out as a pretender in his ads.	Another parody ad created by Monty Python.
Another parody ad spoofing Count Dante's violent hyperbole.

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