Never underestimate the enginuity of a kid comic fan with scissors 1 1

[path4play]

I'll start this off with this a "Goodness Me!" one spotted on feeBay (which includes Detective Comics #27 and Batman #1 - "ALL OF THE FIRST 113 BATMAN STORIES from 70 comic books published 1939 through 1943." which deserves discussion on its own. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225245642254?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=_LMGBU3EQwu&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=abojYbpQR82&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I'll post a couple of similar kid cut/up collections I've encountered.  Please share yours.

 

Edited December 29, 2022 by path4play

[path4play]

I removed Wonder Woman #2 and Wonder Woman #4 from a "kid bound with Elmer's."  Unfortunately, I didn't save a picture of the binding, but it included a handwritten index of the books included.

The others books came out pretty glue free cover-less copies (below) that I sold here on the boards:

• All Star Comics #10
• Minute Man #2
• All Star Comics #14
• Bulletman
• Shield-Wizard Comics #5
• Golden Arrow #[1]
• Spy Smasher #2

Edited December 29, 2022 by path4play

[path4play]

Purchased this from a boardie.  Kid was a real Will Eisner fan.  Chopped up these early 1937/38 books for the Will Eisner stories.  He then glued them into sort of a frame and wrote the page or panel numbers in the frame margins (I believe later placed in binder pages).

• Amazing Mystery Funnies #2
• Amazing Mystery Funnies #3
• Detective Picture Stories #4
• Funny Pages #10
• Funny Picture Stories #4
• Keen Detective Funnies #9
• Western Picture Stories #2

Also came with a bunch of Spirit front covers glued to the same frame material.  I think it was actually done in the early 70's, because there were also a couple of Spirit Kitchen Sink reprint covers.

[Yorick]

On 12/29/2022 at 7:42 AM, path4play said:

I'll start this off with this a "Goodness Me!" one spotted on feeBay (which includes Detective Comics #27 and Batman #1 - "ALL OF THE FIRST 113 BATMAN STORIES from 70 comic books published 1939 through 1943." which deserves discussion on its own. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225245642254?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=_LMGBU3EQwu&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=abojYbpQR82&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I'll post a couple of similar kid cut/up collections I've encountered.  Please share yours.

 

I wish they'd post a photo of the binding.  Looks like a pro did the work.

[Robot Man]

Strictly home made "bound volume" of war books. All publishers including Atlas, DC, EC and others. A very fat album. Bought this from Terry Stroud at the SDCC many, many years ago. Everybody I showed it to wanted to buy it from me. 

[Robot Man]

Some crazy kid many years ago, tore off the covers on his comic books and glued most of them into a scrapbook. Most were no big tragedy but there was a Startling 49 in the bunch...

[ThothAmon]

Not the coolest but maybe the oldest?  I’ve used the back of this sample book from 1929 to photograph my comics but the inside is kinda cool and I’ve never shown it. About 20 pages Not going to start a Rex Maxon fan club either. 
 

[jpepx78]

This blond haired kid in St Augustine Texas is binding the cut pages of comics in 1939. The gang is learning the evil deeds from him.

[path4play]

On 12/30/2022 at 2:41 PM, Robot Man said:

Some crazy kid many years ago, tore off the covers on his comic books and glued most of them into a scrapbook. Most were no big tragedy but there was a Startling 49 in the bunch...

Love it!

[path4play]

On 12/30/2022 at 4:16 PM, jpepx78 said:

This blond haired kid in St Augustine Texas is binding the cut pages of comics in 1939. The gang is learning the evil deeds from him.

Absolutely priceless.  No doubt each ran home after school and did the same.  I love the kid on far right with the "oh my Gosh giggles" hands over face but best of all the girl peering between the shoulders in the back thinking "you crazy, silly boys...I'd sell that for $10,000x times in 80 years"

Edited December 30, 2022 by path4play

[Bookery]

On 12/30/2022 at 4:16 PM, jpepx78 said:

Ah yes... the famous photo that inspired Children of the Corn.

[adamstrange]

On 12/30/2022 at 4:16 PM, jpepx78 said:

This blond haired kid in St Augustine Texas is binding the cut pages of comics in 1939. The gang is learning the evil deeds from him.

If you can cut a comic so casually, there's no limit to the horrors they'll graduate to.  A budding bunch of serial killers!.

#werthamwasright

[Tri-Color Brian]

On 12/29/2022 at 8:42 AM, path4play said:

I'll start this off with this a "Goodness Me!" one spotted on feeBay (which includes Detective Comics #27 and Batman #1 - "ALL OF THE FIRST 113 BATMAN STORIES from 70 comic books published 1939 through 1943." which deserves discussion on its own. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225245642254?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=_LMGBU3EQwu&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=abojYbpQR82&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I'll post a couple of similar kid cut/up collections I've encountered.  Please share yours.

 

Edward Forest, eh?  More like Forest Gump...

[Tri-Color Brian]

On 12/30/2022 at 3:32 PM, path4play said:

Absolutely priceless.  No doubt each ran home after school and did the same.  I love the kid on far right with the "oh my Gosh giggles" hands over face but best of all the girl peering between the shoulders in the back thinking "you crazy, silly boys...I'd sell that for $10,000x times in 80 years"

That looks like a classroom and the girl is the teacher.  She probably instigated the whole thing...what a depraved woman...

[Tri-Color Brian]

I guess I'm just one of those purist collectors who has no love or respect for coverless or bound comics.  Hadn't they heard of scanners or Xerox machines back then? 

Edited December 31, 2022 by Tri-ColorBrian