Rubber Stamp Comics
Like many things of my youth, it was the simple ones that were the most memorable. I remember one summer when I bought a set of Marvel Rubber Stamps at Zayres. There was Spiderman, Human Torch, Iron Man and others. The only problem was the set was only Marvel Super Heroes and was void of villains. For awhile, we would stamp the heroes and draw in captions. But since none of us were very good artists, we couldn't make any believable villains.
Then one day, my friend Johnny, brought a set of new rubber stamps. While they weren't your traditional villains, we used them anyways. So we started what was possibly one of the earliest and weirdest multi-company crossovers ever. We had the Marvel Super Heroes versus Bullwinkle, Rocky and the gang! That's right, there was the battle of Spiderman versus Rocky, Bullwinkle versus the Hulk and Boris and Natasha battling Iron Man and Captain America!
We used to take sheets of paper and break them into panels and then we would stamp the characters and add in backgrounds, sound effects and dialogue. I can still remember one where the Human Torch had to melt Peabody and Sherman's Way Out Machine before they sent Captain America and Spiderman to the Ice Age. Now that was a story!
My greatest regret is that I didn't keep any of these stories. I really wish I did as I think they would be quite humorous. I remember bits and pieces of some of the strange stories the gang made up. While we weren't the best artists, we did have vivid imaginations.