I came across my FOOM membership card yesterday, hidden inside a small plastic wallet I had not probably opened since 1975 (there were some Planet of the Apes TV series trading cards inside). So it has followed me around 5 houses, 46 years and across an Ocean to be re-discovered.
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| Front and back of FOOM membership card |
The rest of the FOOM membership pack has long passed into the mists of time.
Then, looking through some old film negatives I came across photos of FOOM stickers and a snap of a rather duff photo-montage Spider-Man Poster presumably which all came into my possession around the same time in 1973. These items must have impressed me sufficiently at that point to borrow my Dad's Minolta SLR camera to photograph the images below.
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| Spider-Man poster |
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| FOOM sticker |
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| FOOM sticker |
If memory serves, the stickers were part of the official FOOM membership pack, or and the poster was a free gift from Spider-Man Comics Weekly? Can anyone confirm - and if possible the dates they appeared? (Sometime in 1973). A No-prize awaits the winner.
I’m sure that some of you based in the UK still have the original FOOM membership pack in its original mailer with a dated postmark. And those of you with MWOM and SMCW collections can pinpoint the exact date the the "awesome" Spider-Man poster became available.
