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Home Forum General Comics A Story From The Silver Age: Penny Pitching for Comics

A Story From The Silver Age: Penny Pitching for Comics
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12:48 pm
11/25/2010


Alison

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Move back in time to the period between 1961 and 1965, while we, young boomers, were in elementary school. Then you could buy comics for 10 cents new, or 5 cents used, or win them by penny pitching.


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5:39 pm
11/25/2010


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Great story. Thanks for sharing it!

5:40 pm
11/25/2010


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PS – I wonder how much that Hess truck in the box would run nowadays. :)

8:10 pm
11/25/2010


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No idea, but we all used to be pretty into em as little kids. Probably just because grandpa always gave them out.

12:39 am
11/26/2010


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Stuie's 4th from right in top row of first grade pic, and I'm 4th from right in 2nd row! Oh my.

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11/26/2010


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Hi Mrs. Ozer, a.k.a. Ian's mom :),

My parents grew up in Brooklyn, so I wonder if they did the same thing in that borough. I'll have to ask them later today. Wouldn't that be something, now that their grown son is into collecting comics. LOL. My mother got rid of my early comics, unfortunately. Anyway, thanks a bunch for allowing Ian to share that essay with the rest of us. Very kind of you.

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11/27/2010


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It is possible. I know other games we played in the parks were city wide, like Skully. The particulars of our neighborhood, safe, community oriented, lots of kids, and the hill/park made it very special for the time. thanks

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I know this is an older post, but WOW, this was a great read. Thank you so much for posting it and please tell your mom thank you for writing it. It's amazing how little we may know about the events that our parents were involved in before we were born. Funny how they parallel what we have gone through with little (or sometimes major) twists to them. Will we be telling our children about collecting garbage pail kids cards or pogs?

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Garbage Pail Kids cards! Holy cow, you just brought back some deep memories. They were all the rage when I was a kid. How funny. Thanks, Dirt55. :)

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I remember pogs. Hooboy. They actually seemed kind of fun though.

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while i was in the fifth grade taking a long bus ride to a psychologist at the jewish board of guardians, i used to read ec horror comments and get scared, fascinated and rebelled all at the same time. much later in 1966, according to the love of my life, barbara j, i made a comic strip portraying her as a crazy woman.
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