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Wham-o Giant Comics

April 1967....14x21 inches, largest format ever produced....six issue subscription advertised, but #1 is only issue ever produced....Wally Wood, Lou Fine, John Stanley, Warren Tufts, Ernie Colon and others over 1,500 panels...CGC says too big to slab; I say can't you borrow from your movie poster division??

Any love here?

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Back cover

[thecollectron]

I have one. I keep it in a large OA size mylar.

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1 hour ago, thecollectron said:

I have one. I keep it in a large OA size mylar.

 

1 hour ago, thecollectron said:

I have one. I keep it in a large OA size mylar.

Brilliant! That's what I need for it. That custom bag on mine was made by the dealer who gave it to me. It was back in high school; I put on a local convention and he gave it to me as a thanks. I think he was tired of lugging it and trying to preserve his condition, at least as much as he was grateful that a high school kid pulled off a decent small-town show.

 

[Jokerman]

Very cool, never knew this existed. Thanks for sharing!

 

Joker--

 

[porcupine48]

yeah,now I want one..

 

[ThothAmon]

8 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

yeah,now I want one..

 

Be careful what you wish for. Hard to store. 

[Sqeggs]

10 hours ago, ThothAmon said:

18 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

yeah,now I want one..

 

Be careful what you wish for. Hard to store. 

I had a copy for years that I shlepped around from place to place as I moved.  Eventually I think I may have given it away. As I remember, it was a fun book, though.

[porcupine48]

must be tough to locate?

 

[porcupine48]

I see a few on ebay..shipping to Canada on those would kill!!

 

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1 hour ago, porcupine48 said:

must be tough to locate?

 

That's what I'm trying to figure out.....there's always a few, but never as many as most SA titles. I've never been able to locate a print run, and I doubt a high percentage survived. Keep watching on eBay and you'll notice the majority usually have a pronounced fold like a broadsheet newspaper. 

It's a cool, unique piece of comics history, and I suspect not all that common, but I cannot yet prove it.

[OtherEric]

The store I went to the few months I was stuck in Biloxi in 1995 had a stack of several of them; at not too high a price.  I remember being quite tempted but I just had no way to store or transport the dang thing.  But the stack suggests to me there may have been at least a small find at some point.

[nearmint]

I keep mine in my sock drawer.

Seriously.

[mackenzie999]

This is very cool to stumble upon because I was literally thinking about this book yesterday. I had one when they came out but couldn't remember the title. I do recall there was a gladiator story, maybe a story with dinosaurs? Very cool book!

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On 6/14/2017 at 11:02 PM, nearmint said:

I keep mine in my sock drawer.

Seriously.

That's were i kept my treasury editions too  for over 35 years until i unloaded them !