The Photograph That Made a Man Out of James Blunt

We saw this pic — wimpy singer James Blunt and hot model Petra Nemcova on the beach — and immediately thought of one of the most famous and successful print advertisements of all time: “The Insult That Made a Man Out of Mac,” for Charles Atlas.

Here’s the story behind the ad — which ran in comic books for five decades — and here’s the ad itself.

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