Vintage comics often featured homoeroticism alongside ads promising body transformation through simple steps. These ads, like Charles Atlas' "Dynamic Tension" manual, suggested readers could go from weakling to hunk. While gym culture grew in the late 1970s, earlier eras lacked communal workout spaces. Instead, individuals relied on solitary activities like running or weightlifting. There were manuals promising change in your body at home on your own time. Was that promise genuine? Kind of. Was the manual incredibly homo? Absolutely. Were the gay guys clipping such ads out to perv on pictures of hot muscle men? We all can guess the answer! And if you look at these pictures, you will know why! #Queer Up The USA View