Whamo Giant Comics TV Ad Spot!!!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHD7ECAA-ww

Stumbled on this on YouTube today.
A compilation of 30 minutes of Whamo Television ads.

Fast forward to 24:20 to see the ad for the "WHAM-O GIANT COMICS"
The worlds largest comic book ever made, to this day!
Get yours today!
2 great Wally Wood stories!
1 Lou Fine story! Golden age great artist!
1 John Stanley (of Little Lulu fame)
1 Ernie Colon story.

Here is a nice review of this great old comic book.

http://majorspoilers.com/2013/03/31/retro-review-wham-o-giant-comics-1/

At 28:30 is the Wham-o Aqua Jet Plane!
I used to have one of these when I was a wee-laddy back in the late 60's! I have been looking for one ever since!


B.

[Yoc]

Cool, and we were just talking about this book not that long ago.
Thanks for the link B. 

[Defiant1]

Nice.

I added a cropped down version of the video to my Treasury Comics site..

http://www.angelfire.com/comics2/treasury/Other/001_Whamo_Giant_Comics.html

If you don't want to scroll ahead, you can just watch the relevant portion.
Free web hosts are screwy. I had to reload it to get past an error page.

[erwin-k]

I remember that ad. Nice to be able to see it again. Thanks Defiant1!

That silly book was so big the only place I could keep it was under my pre-computer desk's cover/scratch pad. It stuck out on three sides.

[Calamity Jon]

I gave in and bought a copy about a year ago or so. It's a fascinating document, I'd love to see a collection of modern cartoonists (with a retro bent) trying something in the same absurd format!

[Defiant1]

I do not own this comic despite have a VERY large collection of oversized comics.
I do own a comic that is larger. I own the Kiss 4K (Destroyer Edition). I have not been motivated to scan mine in sections and stitch the pieces together.
Instead, I post this image that I swiped from a site online.
The front cover is the size of a wall poster.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/0f7899be969deeec510da0a6a383accc/tumblr_pnpkf4wxzC1rl13p0o1_400.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/comics2/treasury/Other/001_Kiss_4k_Destroyer_Edition.html

There is a comic that is slightly larger than this one.

[crashryan]

I loved this comic when it came out...so much Wood, so many new (to me) artists. What disappointed me was that, given such a huge page, the editors chose to cram in dozens of little panels--some even smaller than regular comic panels--instead of taking advantage of the size to present giant-sized panels in the spirit of Golden Age Sunday comics pages.

[erwin-k]

Crash,

I've always believed that most of the book was created as content for regular sized books. A few, like the one about Americans learning to fly for the French in WW1, seemed to be created with the large format in mind.

While the ability to have larger panels is a good thing, it can get carried waaay too far. I just about gag over some current stuff where almost every "panel" is a full page.

Eisner told complex, and even epic storys in The Spirit with a full page splash and six or eight panels for the other six pages. Or, have you ever read Steve Ditko's Mysterious Suspense #1 with The Question?

[crashryan]

I agree, Erwin-K, that many Wham-O features seem originally to have been prepared for standard size comics. Some I know weren't...for instance, Dennis Ellefson drew his stuff specifically for that book. I also agree that giant panels can get out of hand. I was thinking more of full-page comics like the 30s/40s Prince Valiant or the strips of the teens and early 20s (Little Nemo, Nibsy the Newsboy, Frank King's Gasoline Alley, Polly and Her Pals, etc.)

[erwin-k]

I agree, Erwin-K, that many Wham-O features seem originally to have been prepared for standard size comics. Some I know weren't...for instance, Dennis Ellefson drew his stuff specifically for that book. I also agree that giant panels can get out of hand. I was thinking more of full-page comics like the 30s/40s Prince Valiant or the strips of the teens and early 20s (Little Nemo, Nibsy the Newsboy, Frank King's Gasoline Alley, Polly and Her Pals, etc.)

Looks like we're pretty much on the same panel… errr page.