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Any one else trade comics when you were young?
Yoc:
Hmm, I'd never heard of that Wham-O before this. GCD shows it has some Wood among others in it.
Growing up friends would lend each other books on the understanding you had to return them and not destroy them in the process. There was the odd exchange for money.
I now recall one trade I loved at the time. I traded a Byrne X-Men issue near the end of his run for X-Men #19 in semi-crappy condition. At the time it was a fair trade as I had it as a double anyways. It became my earliest X-Men.
josemas:
--- Quote from: Yoc on August 30, 2011, 08:45:39 AM ---Hmm, I'd never heard of that Wham-O before this. GCD shows it has some Wood among others in it.
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In addition to several pages of Wally Wood art it also contains work by John Stanley, Warren Tufts and Lou Fine's final comic book work.
If anyone wants to check it out it's available over in the Silver Age Sidestreet section at GAC.
One thing the scans just won't convey though is just how huge the comic was. Almost two feet tall and over a foot wide!! Try to find a comic bag for that one!
Best
Joe
bminor:
Once I was trading with two boys at my house, all of us in high school.
I let them into my inner comic sanctum. At the time I suppose I had at least three to four thousand books at the time. ( I always picked them up at garage sales).
Well, we dickered and dickered, eventually trading a few.
Before they left I looked through their comics once more. They had slid a bunch of my other books into their piles! Needless to say I never traded with them again!
As far as Wham-O Giant comics. I had one as a kid, back in the early 70's, I think I saw it sticking out of a trash can. Years later I picked one up at a comic store for $5 bucks. The book is the size of a newspaper, and impossible to store. Has terrible color registration. But I really enjoyed most of the stories. Most of the stories were only two pages, but the panels where quite small.
What I liked most about the book was the Wally Wood "Radian" story that was the first story in the book. I guy getting zapped with energy and becoming really strong and dense, ala Dynamo. Also a story that has the first appearance of Goody Bumpkin in a comic!
There are a few stories by Stanley of Little Lulu fame in the book.
Here is more info on the book I grabbed off the comicvine website...
Pick one up if you can. I don't think the survive in mint condition anywhere....
n 1967 came a Bizzaro experiment from the people who brought us the hoola hoop and Frisbee, a comic book that measured 21” by 14” and cost 98 cents! (believe me in 1967 that was a big deal, 80 pages comics only cost 25 cents.
But for this you got a comic that if it had been regular comic size would have been something like 200 pages thick.
They promised 5 more, but this was the only one.
Inside you found:
"Clyde, King of the Jungle" / Shean. 1 p.
"The Young Eagles" 3 p. -- World War I story.
"Bridget and Her Little Brother Newton the Nuisance" / Stanley. 1 p.
"Super Sibling and His Magic Chokes" 1 p.
"Goody Bumpkin" / Wallace Wood. 2 p.
"Fugitive from a Scrap Pile" (Klunker the Misfit Monster) / Willie Ito. 1 p.
"Tor and the Man from the Aeons" 2 p. -- Prehistoric adventure.
"Wild Earth Child" 1 p.
"Kaleidoscope of Fear" 2 p.
"Experiment in Shock" / Steffen Agen. 2 p.
"The Adventures of Melvin the Magician" 1 p.
"Stellar Apes" 2 p.
"Tree's a Crowd" (Flabby and Gabby) 1 p.
"A Helping Handsome" 1 p.
"The Wooden Sword" 3 p.
"Vehicles to Suit Your Hobby!" / 2 p.
"Fantastic Flying Machines" 1 p. fact feature
"Flying Saucers Mystify the Air Force" 1 p.
"The Diary of Ty Locke" / illustrated by Tufts. 2 1/2 p.
"The Edge of Time" 3 p.
"Unexplored" / Ellefson. 1/2 p.
"Money" 1/4 p fact feature
"Galaxo the Cosmic Agent" 3 p.
"Bread" 1/4 p. fact feature
"Radian" / by Wallace Wood. 3 p.
"Captain Valoren" 2 p.
"The Razor" 1/4 p. fact feature
Yours,
B.
Yoc:
--- Quote from: bminor on August 30, 2011, 09:31:04 AM ---Before they left I looked through their comics once more. They had slid a bunch of my other books into their piles! Needless to say I never traded with them again!
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I'm glad you caught them before they left!
Wow, not only would I have tossed them out on their ears I'd never have spoken to them again if not worse. Talk about sleaze-ball moves. Heck, if they wanted to join DCM I'd ban them for you just because we don't want that kind of person here. >:(
-Yoc
talia374:
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.
Sooo, I would lug a paper box for miles around a trade route and trade what I had read for others that I was unable to buy. I had about 6 regular guys and 1 girl, that I would trade regularly with. These are among my most treasured boyhood times.
I see some of the comics today in these and other wonderful scans, and those great memories come flooding back.
Sadness ensues on occassion, when I recognize a title that I bought, and subsequently traded away, is today selling for many many many thousands of dollars........But the memories.....priceless!!
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