Charles Atlas Was Wrong!

As we saw earlier today, Jughead is so remarkably scrawny that he that merely gazing at his pasty flesh in a swimsuit can cause even friends and family to go mad!!

But, that scrawniness begs an important question:




Yeah, where does all that food go??

Well, if you remember the classic Charles Atlas ads, where the skinny guy gets the crap kicked out of him by the big guy at the beach:

...you're in for a big surprise. Because Charles Atlas was full of crap!! The true story went a little something like this:







"Dynamic tension" my ass!! So how did Jughead do it? We'll let resident comic book expert Betty explain:


Yup, Jughead is really Matter-Eater Lad! Someone call the Legion!!

From Jughead #257 (1976)