Dumb comic related stuff you did as a kid

[Freiherr]

 

OK…time to make insufficiently_thoughtful_persons out of ourselves. I do not care if you didn’t buy/read comics, you did something!. Maybe you tried to make your own web-shooters, batarangs or light yourself on fire to be the Human Torch. You are guilty of something!!!

 

Here is my dumbest stunt. Feel free to point and laugh.

 

After watching an episode of the 70s Spider-Man cartoon featuring the Rhino, I got a dumb idea in my head (literally).

 

My parents had just bought a new oven from Sears and I asked them to save me the box. I then proceed to ram my head into the box. I then thought I would bust out the closed end of the box if I could get up enough speed.

 

It wasn’t pretty. The box was made so the oven wouldn’t fall out the bottom. It was heavily reinforced with glue and those huge staples. I lost 2 teeth and received 6 stitches. Friends say it explains what is wrong with me today.

 

OK…what is yours?

 

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Just in case I am the only one to admit having an overactive imagination once in a fresh pair of Underoos, you can say it was a “friend”. You know, the one that tied a red towel around his neck and jumped out a window?

 

 

[goldust40]

All right........I AM BATMAN!!!!! ............CRUNCH!!!!!

 

That more or less happened fairly often during the early to mid '70s. My brother and I would jump from the windowsill onto sofa cushions. We didn't bother to tie a towel round our necks either.

 

One time, my brother bashed his knee doing this whilst trying to mimic Adam West on the telly, whilst I was watching. He screamed in agony for the rest of the program, and consequently never did that stunt again.

 

I've never let him forget it ( a bit of the old schadenfreude), and it's become an in-joke since (it's a brother thing).

 

If you were a kid in early '70s England, there wasn't that much to do, as you can see.

[BassGMan]

Maybe loosely based on comic books, I wanted to fly. I climbed up on our "Jungle Jim", about 6-8 feet high (not a big risk taker here), with one very large paper airplane made out of construction paper in one hand and an open umbrella in the other hand. I jumped off hoping to at least float down gracefully. Not quite.

 

Better Story (for the adults).

 

Stupid comic book moment:

 

While attending a Portland comic show as a dealer several years ago, my friend and I went into a local strip joint the night before. A very nice naked girl covered only in tiny chains sat down with us to "flirt" or whatever it is they do. Small talk, small talk... so we are here for the comic convention the next day. Oh, so she used to read Cherry Poptart comics. How nice. So after ten minutes or so of trying to see through those chains (successfully I might add) the girl wanders off to see if someone else would buy a dance from her as I did not. Well, she was nice and friendly and I remembered that I had a few of those Cherry comics packed in a box in the car. So I ran out to get them and wanted to give them to her (hey, anything to make a good impression on a chained naked girl, right?). Back inside she was busy dancing for other guys and I did not get the chance to go up to her. So, ready to leave I just walked by where she was "entertaining" another gentleman and just dropped the comics on the chains that she had taken off and layed on the floor. She did not see me do this so she would have been surprised to see them when she turned around. Sure, I had my fingers crossed that she would show up at the con the next day to "thank me". Not quite. Proves what a comic geek I "used to be". -----Sid

[Freiherr]

Ewwww…you poor guy. I worked at a strip club for 2 weeks and I am surprise I lasted that long. The strippers will get on your nerves fast. If any of you think that that there is no way a bunch of naked women can be a headache, all I can say is you have no idea. They are worse than used car salesman, but you don’t get to drive anything home after you have spent more than what you wanted.

 

I would bet $100 she had never read a Cherry Poptart. I am sure it was just something she picked up on during previous conventions. “Hi, I’m Candy. You like comics and I like naughty comics. I bet you have a nice collection of Jeffersons as well.”

 

All right…back to the kid stories.

 

Funny how the concept of physics is the last thing to enter a child’s mind. A buddy and I figured welding rods (my fathers), bent like a boomerang, would come return to you when thrown. They made awful Baterangs. That experiment fails so we figure they would make perfect grappling hooks (and kite string would hold us). Well, it was holy sore bottoms when my dad got home and found a whole box of rods (which were not cheap) bent up and wrapped around just about every branch in the back tree.

 

Thanks soooo much Adam West!

 

[Timely]

As a kid I had a long red bathrobe. Let's just say it made an effective Superman cape and leave it at that!

 

Timely

[BassGMan]

Actually it is far more interesting to see what dumb comic related stuff we have done as ADULTS. Kids are kids and just do dumb things. The funny stuff is what we "mature adults" do out of some kind of comic-dementia.

 

When I was 23 I had inherited what was for me a nice amount of cash. A couple of years later at a comic convention I met a guy that wanted to open a comic store, had the experience as a comic store employee and had a "business plan", but no cash. I had the money and no experience. I trusted the guy and we opened a comic store, just like that, took two weeks. I was absolutely stupid about the whole thing but was so hyped up on comics that any minimal amount of business sense that I had flew out the window. Total mess, total failure, everything bad that could happen DID happen. BUT, the point is, that as a young adult my fascination with comics had clouded my better judgment. Now I look back at this and it is just as funny as trying to fly with a paper airplane and an umbrella.

 

Sheesh, talk about learning experiences. ----Sid

[valiantman]

Actually it is far more interesting to see what dumb comic related stuff we have done as ADULTS.

http://www.ValiantComics.com

 

Your honor, I rest my case.

[BronzeBruce13]

OK…time to make insufficiently_thoughtful_persons out of ourselves. I do not care if you didn’t buy/read comics, you did something!. Maybe you tried to make your own web-shooters, batarangs or light yourself on fire to be the Human Torch. You are guilty of something!!!

 

Here is my dumbest stunt. Feel free to point and laugh.

 

After watching an episode of the 70s Spider-Man cartoon featuring the Rhino, I got a dumb idea in my head (literally).

 

My parents had just bought a new oven from Sears and I asked them to save me the box. I then proceed to ram my head into the box. I then thought I would bust out the closed end of the box if I could get up enough speed.

 

It wasn’t pretty. The box was made so the oven wouldn’t fall out the bottom. It was heavily reinforced with glue and those huge staples. I lost 2 teeth and received 6 stitches. Friends say it explains what is wrong with me today.

 

OK…what is yours?

 

Cool post Robin...

Here's mine from an old thread called "What character did you play as a kid!?"

 

Injured playing a DC hero...

[Freiherr]

 

Cool, I enjoyed that link. I was beginning to fear the most folks stuck their humor into a Mylar sleeve where it sat in a dark closet and forgotten.

 

We can stick with the adult stuff.

 

With the name Robin, you can guess the hell I went through as a kid. I even had a teacher that refereed to me as “Boy Wonder”, even during the morning attendance call. The question that has been asked me the most, “Where is Batman?” Eventually I got use to it and it didn’t bother me. I even developed a caned response. “He is hiding out in Sherwood with the rest of my merry men.”

 

I get out of school, but end up working in nightclubs where the mentality is not much different. I was a doorman for one of the clubs and my partner insisted I use a different name. He was 15 years older than me, but he was not immune to comic book humor.

 

Every once and a while a few ladies would come introduce themselves to us. He would always introduce himself as Bruce Wayne and me as his ward, Grayson. More than once, the women would bring us back to their table and introduce us as the same.

 

He stopped doing it one night when a woman asked me what a “ward” was. I told her it meant that he likes to take me home and make me run around in tight green shorts.

 

[Solar]

When I was around 10 years old, I had a copy of ASM 239 with a detached cover. I pulled the staples, restapled it about 1 cm higher, color touched the spine and old staple holes and sold it to the local dealer for $10 store credit. Still cant believe he didnt notice. Thank God I got some morals as I got older.

[CentaurMan]

I distinctly remember almost drowning at my local pool, as I was attempting to show off my mad Aquaman skillz. I figured, you know, him being the only blond Superfriend, and me being blond....well, I guess I felt as though we must have some mutual talents.

[Darthdiesel]

"they call me Aquaman, 'cause I make all the girls wet"

[chrisco37]

 

 

[BassGMan]

"they call me Aquaman, 'cause I make all the girls wet"

 

Speaking of....Another dumb as a shmuck thing I did as an ADULT.

 

About six or seven years ago at a San Diego comic con I bought a T-shirt from one of the Carnal Comics porn stars with a very sexy photo of her on it, I can't think of which "actress", there has been so many that "displayed" at SD. Anyway, she signed the shirt with my name and then something about how I make her wet (typical porn star teaser lingo) with a thick black marker. Anyway, I remember wearing that T-shirt into the gym several times. I must have looked like so much of a dweeb/[!@#%^&^]/insufficiently_thoughtful_person/desperate dude that I am embarassed now just to think I would ever wear something like that in public. I can only hope that I have learned from that. -----Sid

[Darthdiesel]

I can only hope that I have learned from that.

 

Sid says, as he meticulously irons and folds his Cherry Poptart T-shirts and matching lace panties...

[BassGMan]

I can only hope that I have learned from that.

 

Sid says, as he meticulously irons and folds his Cherry Poptart T-shirts and matching lace panties...

 

Hey, so I am forever strung to my pre-married days when I liked to hang with the beautiful babes (now I'm married to one). So? I also like some of those "bad girl" comics. Better to look at cartoon girlies in tights than men in tights I always say. Hey, just yesterday I threw away a brand new Lady Death T-shirt. But I still have my Purgatori shirt. Maybe I've learned a little. Still have a way to go....------Sid

[Darthdiesel]

not knocking it - I have my own share of Cherry, Cavewoman, Jungle Fantasy, Lady Death...etc...

[supapimp]

"they call me Aquaman, 'cause I make all the girls wet"

 

Speaking of....Another dumb as a shmuck thing I did as an ADULT.

 

About six or seven years ago at a San Diego comic con I bought a T-shirt from one of the Carnal Comics porn stars with a very sexy photo of her on it, I can't think of which "actress", there has been so many that "displayed" at SD. Anyway, she signed the shirt with my name and then something about how I make her wet (typical porn star teaser lingo) with a thick black marker. Anyway, I remember wearing that T-shirt into the gym several times. I must have looked like so much of a dweeb/[!@#%^&^]/insufficiently_thoughtful_person/desperate dude that I am embarassed now just to think I would ever wear something like that in public. I can only hope that I have learned from that. -----Sid

 

you mean something like this? BTW, the bird's fancied it.

[BassGMan]

 

you mean something like this? BTW, the bird's fancied it.

 

Exactly!!!! Now just imagine that printed full size on the front of your T-shirt as you stroll into the gym for a nice workout. Oh yeah, those ladies will surely be impressed by your rippling Hulk-like muscles now. ----Sid

[supapimp]

on a wall yes, sporting it as gear.....no.