[Groop] Tabloid Cartooning: The Search for Back Issues

[Jason Roberts]

You know Gary, Bigfoot or Elvis might have the back
issues you seek. They like to see their name in the
news too. Batboy might be some help. Good luck on your
search!
 Jason

--- GARY GROSSMANN <grossfamm at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi Folks!
> 
> So far finding the back issues of the Weekly World
> News from May 2 through
> July 11th has proved an unexpectedly difficult task.
>  (!?!)
> 
> First I called the WWN customer service line and
> after several transfers was
> told that they did not have any back issues for
> those weeks!!
> 
> So I figured I'll start from the other end.  So I go
> to my Grocery Store and
> get the name of the distributor and call them up.
> They tell me their
> contract with the publisher required them to shred
> all the copies returned.
> Horrors!!!
> 
> OK, so now it's time to get serious.  What to do?  I
> hopped on the web to
> see what I could find.  Nothing on ebay, nothing
> anywhere really.  This rag
> is the most disposable publication in history! 
> However, a little more
> indepth search revealed that the WWN art director is
> a Cartoonist named Dave
> Kulpa who also owns the MAD Magazine competitor,
> Cracked.  I tracked down
> his e-mail address and sent him a plea for back
> issues.  It came back saying
> "mail box full", but I found another e-mail for him
> and resent the plea.
> 
> So far no reply.  But I am undaunted!!  I will find
> those back issues!  The
> frustrating thing is I KNOW that within 10 miles of
> my house, there is a
> stack of those puppies in at least 5 or 6 garages. 
> All I have to do is find
> some guy who goes to sleep with tin foil on his head
> to keep out the secret
> government radio waves that control all of our
> brains (or is it Alien radio
> waves.  I can never keep that straight)  I'm also on
> the lookout for UFO and
> Sasquatch conventions.  Gotta be back issues there.
> 
> If I'd been doing what should be required reading,
> i.e., Scott Shaw!'s
> Oddball Comics page, I would have known about this
> back at the beginning and
> not have this problem.  Oh, well...*
> 
> Anywho, I gotta go.  Marilyn Monroe is calling from
> Mars and Elvis, who
> lives in my basement, gets pissed if I don't pick up
> her calls.
> 
> Bye for now.  -Gary G.
> 
> * "Oh, well..." were the first words to appear in a
> Groo comic-the last
> panel of the Destroyer Duck appearance and were the
> ONLY words not lettered
> by Stan Sakai.
> 
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