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jfglade:
 Late last night, I found another horror story I remembered from my early childhood which was in an issue of Harvey's Witch's Tales; I believe it is the 4th horror story I recalled which I have been able to identify and I've also found other stories from Charlton, Quality, and one or two other companies I recalled which aren't horror. It's interesting to see what such stories were actually like compared to the way I remembered them, and I couldn't help wondering how many others have had similiar experiences with the material available here?

Cartoonacy:
Not from the material here, but there was a science fiction story I remembered reading in a comic book in my barber's waiting area in the late '60s. All I remembered was the plot and the story title. Thanks to the GCBD, I located that story almost 40 years later and found the issue of DC's "Tales of the Unexpected" that it was in. My memories of it held up pretty well.

On a related note, a classmate of mine from high school contacted me several years ago. When her mother was a little girl, she fell through the ice of a frozen pond, and was rescued by a passing merchant marine. The true-life story was published in Heroic Comics #39. My friend's copy of the issue was destroyed in a fire, and I helped her find a replacement. Last week, I learned of the Digital Comics Museum, and found that issue in the archives. I sent her the link, and she's grateful to now have another version of the story to show her kids and grandkids.

Roygbiv666:

--- Quote from: Cartoonacy on October 10, 2011, 12:24:21 PM ---Not from the material here, but there was a science fiction story I remembered reading in a comic book in my barber's waiting area in the late '60s. All I remembered was the plot and the story title. Thanks to the GCBD, I located that story almost 40 years later and found the issue of DC's "Tales of the Unexpected" that it was in. My memories of it held up pretty well.

On a related note, a classmate of mine from high school contacted me several years ago. When her mother was a little girl, she fell through the ice of a frozen pond, and was rescued by a passing merchant marine. The true-life story was published in Heroic Comics #39. My friend's copy of the issue was destroyed in a fire, and I helped her find a replacement. Last week, I learned of the Digital Comics Museum, and found that issue in the archives. I sent her the link, and she's grateful to now have another version of the story to show her kids and grandkids.

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That is cool. Not that she fell thru the ice, that you found this place.

Yoc:
What a great story Cartoonacy, thanks very much for telling us about it!
:D

jfglade:
 That is a great story, not only that she survived but that the event was selected for inclusion in Heroic, and that you were able to connect her children and grandchildren with a source for the story. No one is going to top that.

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