Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Back in 1967, you could get a lot of comic for 98c including this, the largest comic ever made14in. It will have enough minor defects that it is in clearly worse condition than a brand new freshly published comic, magazine, or book. With a wally wood radian story kicking off this, the only issue, but with still more wood inside a goody bumpkin story along with a number of other great adventure strips, this is one cool comic by any standard. Surely they could fit a whamo giant comics in a movie poster thingie share this post. This 52page fullcolor anthology with over 1,500 action panels. The complete marvel mini books series featured one book each for. Man, this things huge, and youll have to zoom in on the images to see all the stuff jampacked herein. It measures a whopping 14 x 21 inches, with each page holding as much material as four regular comic book pages. Whatever else you want to say about it, this is one of the hardest comic collectibles to store.
It wouldnt fit in my scanner its about the size of a newspaper and my wife has the digital camera and wont be back for a few days. You walk into your favorite shop, where everyone knows your name, and start rooting through the new releases. Not saddlestitched but stapled along the left side of the comic, cover includes a manufactured crease to allow opening of the comic. Archie giant comics collection tpb part 1 read archie. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for. I honestly think they should be betterknown and betterelevated so, for the next few weeks, your thursdays will be spent at the knees of the greats who brought us the forgotten characters of whamo giant comics. While mostly known for scripting, stanley also drew many of his stories, including the earliest issues of. Its especially nice to see truly rare comics reprinted, such as wally woods brilliant strip from whamo giant comics, a book thats impossible to find in good shape because it was too huge to store anywhere. In 1967 came a bizzaro experiment from the people who brought us the hoola hoop and frisbee, a comic book that measured 21.
The biggestsized comic ever published in terms of surface area. In the when atomic bombs and nuclear power were relatively new, views about the atom were even more schizoid than they are today. I remember getting this oneofakind comicbook rarity from a big display in the toy section of. This auction is for a april 1967 whamo giant comic vol. Now we can read it in a durable volume that you can hold in. Whamo giant comics 1 graded very fine april 1967 whamo manufacturing company silver age the worlds largest comic 14 wide and 21 tall 52 giant pages over 1500 action panels 24 individual comic strips the origin of radian illustrated by wally wood the man from aeons illustrated by lou fine the young eagles illustrated by andre leblanc mark of the sun illustrated by. All in all, the comic can be rated as a mild success for its attempts to change. It was published, per the indicia, in april 1967, by whamo manufacturing company and it was suppose to be the first in a series of giantsized comics released on a quarterly basis by the company that gave us the frisbee, hulahoops, the super ball, boomerangs, the slipn slides and the water wiggle. But for this you got a comic that if it had been regular comic.
I am a big fan of the bodybuilding and fitness guru joe weider. Wallace allan wood june 17, 1927 november 2, 1981 was an american comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work on ec comics s mad and marvels daredevil. Slip n slide vintage tv retro toys classic toys childhood memories growing up catalog cool stuff kids. This 1967 oversized comic is newspaper sized, measuring 14. Intended to be an ongoing series, but only one issue came out. What kid never owned any or all of these terrific products. In 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. Heroagogo campy comic books, crimefighters, and culture. Our neighborhood thrifty drug store had them in a huge display along with whatever else was the latest whamo invention as well as hulahoops, superballs, waterwiggles, airblasters, etc. Because of its odd size and very limited distribution, the comic is a true rarity. All i know is that cgc can do comic book magazines and sport illustrated and playboy magazine from 1953 to present. Funnies on parade and famous funnies led the way to the explosion of golden age publishers. An early pioneer of the golden age comic book publishers, eastern had a business printing the color comic strip supplements to newspapers, and were among the first to repackage reprints in comic book form, initially as promotional giveaways for clients. I agree with you that it does look like mcwilliams work on these latest space conquerors strips.
This includes cgc, pgx and cbcs graded comic books. Whereas the whamo giant comics is the largest comics series ever produced about full newspaper dimensions, this little marvel mini series of six represents the worlds smallest comics set. A twopage story drawn by comics legend lou fine in a toy companys custom oneshot, whamo giant comics 1967, starred a prehistoric man named tor, but. Theres no question about it this is the biggest comic ever made. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. Whamo were brilliant hucksters for any of their plastic contraptions and they worked their kaleidopsychedelicolorific magic again with of all things, a giant comic. Look out for strips by wally wood, steffenagan, ernie colon, lou fine, warren tufts and many more, the title edited by bill macintyre. I say cant you borrow from your movie poster division any love here. Although much of his early professional artwork is signed wallace wood, he became known as wally wood, a name he claimed to dislike. Whamo giant comic one of the nice things about the internet is that it allows me to recover all sorts of ephemera from my youth without and with shelling out insane amounts of time and money. A colossal 14 x 21 book, artists included are wally wood, lou fine, warren tufts, john stanley, and ward kimball.
Afx 22020 giant raceway wo digital lap counter longest ho slot car racing set afx 22020 giant. A number of the other 1960s strips you have posted remind me of lou fines later work on the comic strip adam ames 195962 as well as that he did for whamo giant comics 1967. It includes work by comic legends like wally wood, lou fine, ernie colon, and john stanley, and is billed as the worlds largest comic book with over 1500 action panels. I really dont know if they will able to encapsulate oversized books like life magazine and treasury.
However the giant part of the whamo comics name refers instead to the page dimensions. You walk into your favorite shop, where everyone knows your name, and start. The stories which ran in wgc dont resurface elsewhere, making most of the book a playground for the truly gone and forgotten. The great society comic book, vince gargiulo palisades park historian, joe.
This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format. But for this you got a comic that if it had been regular comic size would have been. Heroagogo campy comic books, crimefighters, and culture of the swinging sixties. This oneshot by whamo, the manufacturer of frisbees and hula hoops was great fun in its 14 x 21 superoversized format and wraparound cover. Latest example, i came across a download for the 1967 premiere and only issue of whamo giant comics. Whamo giant comics tv ad spot digital comic museum. John stanley march 22, 1914 november 11, 1993 was an american cartoonist and comic book writer, best known for writing little lulu comic book stories from 1945 to 1959. At 14 wide by 21 high, this 52page magazine is considered the biggest comic book ever published. Another version of the giant comic book commercial from whamo. Whamo giant comics silver age comic books cgc comic. We update our website daily with changes to our inventory on our graded comic catalogue. Philcomics trails rare whamo giant us tabloid comic in next.