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Any one else trade comics when you were young?
narfstar:
Hope you checked out a scan of Wham-O. Took me a while to find a copy several years ago but those are not my scans. I had more the lend return police with a cousin and best friend. They later got out of comics and gave me theirs. My main trading was at barber shops that would allow me trade at my discretion.
josemas:
--- Quote from: talia374 on August 30, 2011, 07:33:23 PM ---I wanted comics for birthday presents and Christmas presents, and would gather pop (soda) bottles to cash in and get the 2 cents and later 3 cent deposit. When I saved a dime I would run to the drug store to buy the latest comic book. Choosing was tough and I could only get a very few monthly.
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I too remember hunting for soda bottles so that I could get the deposit. Even after I started earning an allowance, at age eight, of 25 cents a week I would still search for bottles (initially 2 cents for a regular bottle and 5 cents for the quart size bottles) so I could buy extra comics or nickel packs of bubble gum cards. I was always quick to hit the nearby canal every Autumn (when they would drain it for maintenance) to try to find all the pop bottles that had been tossed in it during the previous year.
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Joe
paw broon:
I traded comics with my pals in the late '50's and early '60's but we called it swapping, so a lot of kids swapped comics but until American comics were distributed here in 1959, we were mostly restricted to British and Austarlian titles. There was great excitement if someone came up with a funnies section or a "real" comic (a meccy, as I seem to recall we called them in Airdrie, which were probably sent by a relative who had moved to N.America). But I remember the stooshie when an older boy tried to trade a Charlie Chan TV adventures (these were pocket sized comics), which we hadn't seen before, and wanted 3 comics for the swap. Indignation at an early age.
I just don't remember girls being even remotely interested, which is odd as there were a number of girls titles every week and my sister got The Bunty. So, I suppose, they must have swapped but did it quietly and we weren't aware because there was no crossover.
Roygbiv666:
What's "a meccy"?
--- Quote from: paw broon on August 31, 2011, 09:01:15 AM ---I traded comics with my pals in the late '50's and early '60's but we called it swapping, so a lot of kids swapped comics but until American comics were distributed here in 1959, we were mostly restricted to British and Austarlian titles. There was great excitement if someone came up with a funnies section or a "real" comic (a meccy, as I seem to recall we called them in Airdrie, which were probably sent by a relative who had moved to N.America). But I remember the stooshie when an older boy tried to trade a Charlie Chan TV adventures (these were pocket sized comics), which we hadn't seen before, and wanted 3 comics for the swap. Indignation at an early age.
I just don't remember girls being even remotely interested, which is odd as there were a number of girls titles every week and my sister got The Bunty. So, I suppose, they must have swapped but did it quietly and we weren't aware because there was no crossover.
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larrytalbot:
Comic books were big with us grammar school kids in the 1940s. Comics were so popular they replaced money as a medium of exchange. With comics we could buy things we didn't have the money for: toys, sport equipment, school lunches... I once traded my baseball mitt for a set of comics plus a thick scrapbook of newspaper clippings about boxing (a collection the kid's brother, who had joined the navy, had been accumulating for years, starting in the '30s.). In our time a common greeting to friend, acquaintance, or stranger was: "Got any comics to trade?" Several enterprising deli owners kept under-the-counter second-hand comic book stashes to sell for pennies each to neighborhood kids.
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