Cool Footage of the Mighty Atom

January 20, 2011

Note: This item is not from collection

Mighty Atom Display

 

 

 

A collection of the Atom’s products that he sold during his lectures as well as a few other pieces related to the great strongman: Multi-Vitamins, foot cream, tonic, soaps, Pep-O-Lax, coupons, a 60 penny nail he bent, jack-chain he broke by chest expansion, one of his wrist cuffs and more.  

Pulling John Poster

 

 

 

 

A “Pulling John” movie poster autographed by arm-wrestling legends John Brzenk and Travis Bagent, given to Dennis by Travis. 

The Strongman

 

 

 

This is an original first issue of “The Strongman” magazine, dated February, 1923. It was published by W.A. Pullum and given to Dennis by longtime strength and boxing historian/collector, Eric Murray of Canada. 

The magazine was originally given to Eric by Phyllis Jowett, daughter of famed strongman, George F. Jowett. It came from Mr. Jowett’s private collection.

PIC Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A publicity stunt taken from the pages of a 1939 Issue of PIC Magazine: The Mighty Atom is shown escaping from a chair in which he was bound with jack-chain, as a speeding car approaches.  

Slim Double-Hammer Lift Photo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An original 8 x 10 photo of Slim the Hammer Man practicing the double-hammer lift he did for a crowd of 20,000 at Madison Square Garden.  That night, under the supervision of the Mighty Atom, Slim became known as the King of the Leverage Lifters.

Table Curl Photo

  

This is an old picture of Dr. Anthony Barker doing a table curl. It is from a magazine printed during the turn of the last century.

There are actually two methods of doing the table curl. One is as shown in this photo, which bodybuilding champion Val Vasilef made famous when he table curled 150 ½ pounds at a bodyweight of 198.  It was done with a fully extended arm on a weight bench. Impressive to say the least!

The other method is to keep your body close to the table so that your arm is at 90 degrees at the start of the movement.

Specialized Bar

 

 

This is Dennis’ favorite workout barbell. It was hand made by Patina Metals, then chromed. As you can see, the majority of the bar is very thick and it has a 1” handle in the center. It is heavy walled, yet hollow, to allow shot to be added to increase the weight.

Dennis enjoys doing one-arm snatches with the bar, and his favorite exercise for the wrist- his lever wrist curls. Lever wrist curls are performed by adding a small amount of extra weight to one side of the bar to throw the barbell off-balance when performing standard wrist curls. Fighting to balance the bar when curling the weight really hits the wrists and forearms in a unique way. In fact, putting additional weight on the thumb side of the bar is a great way for an arm-wrestler to build the power he/she needs to top-roll a tough opponent’s wrist.

David Blaine is shown after completing a one arm press.  

One of A Kind

 

 

 

Two extremely rare pieces of memorabilia - A Mighty Atom advertising flyer printed in Hebrew and the original printing plate used for the photo on the flyer.

 

"Milo" Iron Master Dumbbell

Dennis’ “Milo” style Iron Master Dumbbell designed by Osmo Kiiha, which was later modified by Patina Metals (addition of –inner-sleeves), then chromed.