Big Boy Comic Books

i just posted a big boy comic on etsythat they used to give to kids when you were seated and i couldn't resist a little research into the history of big boy's. 

it started in the 1930s in california and one of the regulars  at Bob's Pantry challenged Bob to make something different and he came up with the double decker Big Boy. 

Bob Wian used to give chores to a six-year-old boy named Richard Woodruff. he was a chubby kid with baggy pants and a funny pompadour hairstyle.  one day, a Warner Brothers cartoonist, Benny Washman, sketched the chubby boy on a napkin and gave it to Wian.  and  "the Big Boy" was born.

the comic book began in 1956 and the first of these comic books were written by Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee and drawn by "Sub-Mariner" creator Bill Everett.

big boy was one of the places we hung out when i was a teenager and although my kids didn't go there that often, it was a tradition at gp north high for the senior class to "steal" the big boy from the restaurant at vernier and mack.  they finally chained Big Boy down.

fun memories