Babe Ruth & Jack Dempsey Aurora card 1965

[71buc]

Those were cut from comic book ads featuring the models

[Ribbens]

Excellent, appreciate your help......

[PowderedH2O]

Did that last cartoon show Johnny Unitas passing for an AFL record?

[71buc]

Yes

[Ribbens]

The 2 cards I received today are not paper stock they are a cardboard stock, so perhaps the "cards" were cut from a box of some kind. Any one know of a box these images might have been cut from?

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Ribbens

The 2 cards I received today are not paper stock they are a cardboard stock, so perhaps the "cards" were cut from a box of some kind. Any one know of a box these images might have been cut from?

Is it possible someone did a very professional job of gluing the thin comic book paper to pieces of cardboard?

[Cliff Bowman]

It took me a while, but I finally found a month of Marvel Comics that used that Aurora models ad on the back cover, May 1966. I broke out my Tales Of Suspense #77 and measured the Ruth drawing and the Dempsey drawing. They are both exactly 2 inches wide, but the Dempsey is slightly taller than the Ruth. The Ruth is about 1 and 5/16" x 2", the Dempsey is about 1 and 7/16" x 2". Are yours a different size? There is a seller on eBay with an Aurora Jim Brown "card" that wants $50 for it. That is why I thought someone would go through the trouble of cutting these off of a beat up 1966 comic book and then gluing them onto a piece of random cardboard and then trying to pawn them off as a "card" at a profit.