"Mag-3 reporting in".
Been a while, guys. Ah, the good ole' days when eBay was free and Wackys had nothing printed on the back. With all the new developments in the past few years (which most of us Mag-7 have missed out on), the original Mag-7 (
list can probably stand to have an update.
Seems like we never considered Ratz/Cracked or any of the Diecut variations in the list just because 1-16 was its own complete beast of a set, and Diecuts were always those weird, "older-people's Wackys" (since we 70's kids never had 'em).
And I actually have no idea what the heck an "Oddie Boy" is, so that must be an ANS thing, right?
But the new developments on the Bum/Choke vs. Mess/Hex vs. Milk Foam/Bald part of the 4th series saga has really thrown a monkey wrench into the original 'Mag-7' spirit. If we were inventing a list like that nowadays, it would seem that it would have to have 3 or 4 tiers separated out for things like "Print Variations" (Spit&Spill, Grime, Scoot), EARLY-pulled titles, LATE-pulled titles, and known short-runs or weird scarcities due to cross-collecting (e.g. Shotwheels & cereal titles).
Yah, I've been away from it for many years, but Wackys do tend to run in your veins. Got a surprise email a while ago from one of the Wacky originals from the old days, which temporarily got me thinking about the stickers again. Haven't collected 'em or even looked at 'em in a long long time, and I know almost nothing about the ANS stuff. But when new Wacky info to old mysteries come out, that gets my attention.
So here's a question for the old gang... has anyone ever finally found a painting or image of the 8th series version of "Toadal" as a sticker yet? That was always the #1 thing I wanted to see uncovered. Or at least an 8th checklist with Toadal listed (and what other titles might have been cut or added). Stay Wacky, dudes...
When we coined the "mag 7" term, none of us cared about diecuts. oddie boy didn't exist and even today, I wouldn't add oddie boy to the list. I was the first to call out Scoot no copy as I had access to the largest hoard of series 16's back then. It was discovered quite a bit after we coined the Mag 7 term. For awhile, there was a core of 7 hard core collectors(we started calling ourselves the mag 7) who tried to work together to not bid against each other on ebay so as not to unnecessarily enrich sellers while we tried to build our collections, Jeff Weis, John Mellard, Scott Broberg, Scot Liebacher, John MacIntyre, Dennis Wagner and me.