Old Comic Book Ads! Did anyone ever purchase anything advertised?

[OtherEric]

And the envelope it came in:

[OtherEric]

The one other item I have, I apologize for the cruddy photos.  My photo skills are nearly nil, and it's WAY too big to scan... it's bigger than a treasury comic.  If anybody really wants improved images I'll see what I can do:

[Yoc]

Oh WOW, that's so cool Eric!
We really should do a proper scan and share it here on DCM.
I'm ready and willing to do any editing if wanted.

[OtherEric]

Oh WOW, that's so cool Eric!
We really should do a proper scan and share it here on DCM.
I'm ready and willing to do any editing if wanted.

Which one, Yoc?  I can scan the puzzle fine, but the Circus is, like I said, WAY too big to scan.  Maybe if I can find a copy shop or something that can do it...

[larrytalbot]

Thanks! OE. I'm adding it to my collection.

[Yoc]

Hi Eric,
Both would be perfect additions for the DCM collection no?
They'd make great shares for our coming TENTH ANNIVERSARY not far down the road!
If it were possible.

-Yoc

[bminor]

Guys, you can do overlapping scans then in Photoshop put it together into one seamless scan.

In Photoshop choose FILE > AUTOMATE > PHOTOSMERGE

I have done it several times and it works great!!!

B.

[bminor]

Everyone,

I would be willing to help/work on this Peter Wheat Circus project.

How can we go about getting high resolution scans?

I just need nice scans that have about an inch of overlap so they can be stitched back together.

What are the dimensions of the originals?

B

[Yoc]

Thanks for the offer B.  I can do the same as well if OE can manage to get them scanned somehow.

-Yoc

[OtherEric]

Thank you both for your offers; I'll see what I can do next weekend to get the pages of the circus scanned.  It will take four scans for each sheet to get a complete image, though.

The original is roughly 13x16 inches.

The actual circus pages are in very good shape but the cover envelope is in very bad shape, I may not be able to scan it corner by corner...

[bminor]

How about the Polaris Submarine or the Tank? Anyone ever get one of these?

[bminor]

Or the space ship!!!

[Yoc]

Thanks!
I think there's a book or some site that shares a lot of these kind of things.  I wish my memory worked better to say which.

-Yoc