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TMNT #1 Club
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Did anybody ever buy their #1 direct from K Eastman/P Laird and have it mailed to them back in 1984? If so how was it shipped? In a cardboard box, like you would expect today or some kind of bubble mailer? Just curious to know. I cannot imagine that what has now become such a valuable comic ever being shipped to customers in some kind of bubble mailer! Just curious is all :)

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On 9/16/2021 at 2:30 PM, sorrenmj said:

Did anybody ever buy their #1 direct from K Eastman/P Laird and have it mailed to them back in 1984? If so how was it shipped? In a cardboard box, like you would expect today or some kind of bubble mailer? Just curious to know. I cannot imagine that what has now become such a valuable comic ever being shipped to customers in some kind of bubble mailer! Just curious is all :)

My brother did that. He learned about it from an ad in the Comics Buyer's Guide and ordered it. I don't recall how it was shipped, but it arrived undamaged. (I don't think bubble mailers existed back then.)

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On 9/16/2021 at 1:30 PM, sorrenmj said:

Did anybody ever buy their #1 direct from K Eastman/P Laird and have it mailed to them back in 1984? If so how was it shipped? In a cardboard box, like you would expect today or some kind of bubble mailer? Just curious to know. I cannot imagine that what has now become such a valuable comic ever being shipped to customers in some kind of bubble mailer! Just curious is all :)

For what it's worth, I have this old 1984 mailing envelope from Mirage. It was used to ship the iron-ons. It's just a standard manila envelope, no bubbles. Maybe a similar thing was used for the comics? 

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On 9/16/2021 at 8:14 PM, spracknetch23 said:

For what it's worth, I have this old 1984 mailing envelope from Mirage. It was used to ship the iron-ons. It's just a standard manila envelope, no bubbles. Maybe a similar thing was used for the comics? 

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Ha ha that's incredible you saved that! I bet that is exactly how they were shipped! I can'y believe it. Just a piece of card and paper with a polite do not fold message to house what could eventually become a million dollar comic. Thanks for sharing that epic piece of comic history!

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On 9/16/2021 at 4:19 PM, sorrenmj said:

Ha ha that's incredible you saved that! I bet that is exactly how they were shipped! I can'y believe it. Just a piece of card and paper with a polite do not fold message to house what could eventually become a million dollar comic. Thanks for sharing that epic piece of comic history!

That's actually not as bad as what Marvel did when you subscribed (by mail) to one of their titles. They just took a piece of brown paper and wrapped it around the comic with the top and bottom open and exposed. Several comics in my collection arrived that way, including "Days of Future Past." For a brief period, we had a mailman who loved to fold the comics before placing them inside the mailbox. I remember being very upset about that.

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On 9/16/2021 at 9:32 PM, tvindy said:

That's actually not as bad as what Marvel did when you subscribed (by mail) to one of their titles. They just took a piece of brown paper and wrapped it around the comic with the top and bottom open and exposed. Several comics in my collection arrived that way, including "Days of Future Past." For a brief period, we had a mailman who loved to fold the comics before placing them inside the mailbox. I remember being very upset about that.

Unbelievable. No wonder so many comics are low grades from that time

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On 9/16/2021 at 3:19 PM, sorrenmj said:

Ha ha that's incredible you saved that! I bet that is exactly how they were shipped! I can'y believe it. Just a piece of card and paper with a polite do not fold message to house what could eventually become a million dollar comic. Thanks for sharing that epic piece of comic history!

I actually was only six years old in 1984 and had no idea what TMNT was until 1987. But I acquired this envelope from another collector who had found it on Ebay along with the full set of seven 1984 iron-ons it was shipped with. Unfortunately the iron-ons didn't come with our deal. But I imagine this is how they shipped most things at the time! Eastman and Laird would have called you nuts if you told them their comic would be worth so much one day.

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On 9/16/2021 at 9:55 PM, spracknetch23 said:

I actually was only six years old in 1984 and had no idea what TMNT was until 1987. But I acquired this envelope from another collector who had found it on Ebay along with the full set of seven 1984 iron-ons it was shipped with. Unfortunately the iron-ons didn't come with our deal. But I imagine this is how they shipped most things at the time! Eastman and Laird would have called you nuts if you told them their comic would be worth so much one day.

I didn't realise the iron-ons were so large scale. For some reason I thought they would be tiny.

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On 9/16/2021 at 6:34 PM, sorrenmj said:

I didn't realise the iron-ons were so large scale. For some reason I thought they would be tiny.

I think the ads gave the impression that they're pretty small, but they're about the length and width of a TMNT #1. This image of my #1 collection from a few years ago shows the relation of the books to the size of the iron-on (top right). I keep them in the same magazine-sized sleeves I keep the early comics in. 

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On 9/17/2021 at 2:44 AM, spracknetch23 said:

I think the ads gave the impression that they're pretty small, but they're about the length and width of a TMNT #1. This image of my #1 collection from a few years ago shows the relation of the books to the size of the iron-on (top right). I keep them in the same magazine-sized sleeves I keep the early comics in. 

TMNT 1 pose collection.JPG

That collection is magnificent. The iron on has similar colors to the idw #1 color cover edition. I didn’t know that before. Thanks for sharing 

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