The Mighty Atom: A Man Who Stopped a Bullet with His Skull
Death Sentence
Joseph could have sworn he was out of the woods as far as life-threatening diseases went. But at age 14, tuberculosis gripped him like an unrelenting ex who can’t bear to see their old flame move on. It was the early 1900s, and TB was a three-year death sentence.
This cast a dark cloud over Joseph’s future as doctors once again proclaimed his grim fate. Faced with such despair, a rebellious fire lit up within him. With nothing to lose, he resolved to escape his mundane existence in the circus.
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