I am interested in buying a copy of the "Cross and the switchblade" comic book that came out in the late 70s/early 80s. Anyone have one they might sell?

Wow, I didn't know they made that into a comic book! How cool would that be. I have read the book (eons ago, long before I was a Christian) but obviously I've never even seen the comic book.

When I was a kid my youth group went to this church across town and seen the movie, met Pat Boone (who was in the movie) and got a free copy of the comic book. I lost mine somewhere through the years and want to replace it.

I'm pretty sure I have that one. I'll hafta check my comic book collection when I get home from work.

Look what I found....

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I assume by the name BrokenTulsa, you live in Oklahoma ? PM me your mailing address and I'll send this to you as a Christmas present.

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Thankyou so much.

Wow, how great is that. Now somebody just needs to scan it and e-mail to me as a pdf or something. I really want to read it, and I'm guessing it is seriously out of print.

Yep, those are mega OOP. There was a whole series published by Spire Comics geared towards kids and illustrated mostly by the dude who did the Archie comics (in fact he also made some Archie comics that were Christian themed).

The reading is very basic.
But like I said in a PM to BT, it's always been a trip to me that this comic actually uses the "N" word. Remember, these are clean Christian comics for kids. But cuz of the nature of the story, they've got this gang member yelling at the preacher saying "I got a bullet hole here! One of them N----- gangs did it !". And one of the black gangs saying "You want me to love them Spics?"
I always thought that was rather off for a child's comic. But it IS a heavy duty story they're trying to tell.

The only other alternative to secular comic books was the Chick Tract comics, but his writing became so "agenda" oriented against the Catholics, that it just made his later comics no fun to read.

And about the scanning idea, I shall do that ! My scanner can scan into PDF format

You have to understand g/f that when this comic came out all over the south and the midwest it wasn't a big deal to use these kinds of words. Even as kids in my school (including grade-school) its how people talked. I didn't even go to school with blacks or hispanics till I was in high school...and even then they had their classes and whites had theirs..except for sports. I had never even been to a church with other races till I lived in Oklahoma back in the late 90s. Its hard when you are raised for years to think one way about race and then in your 30s God says love all people. It is still rough on me at times but I am allowing the Holy Spirit to change me. In the town I grew up in (even now) the neighborhoods are divided by race. Blacks in their area with their own stores and cops, hispanics the same and whites the same...whites being rich in one area and everyone else in another area. Its pretty common. Political correctness is not a popular thing around here. Doing things the old southern way is.

I understand. I guess it's true cuz this was written way before political correctness junk. When I was a kid my Grandma (who was a strong Christian saint from the south) used to use the term N----- innocently, without a hateful bone in her body... it's just the term her generation used to identify them. I was always shocked and would tell my mom ("she said a bad word").

I just thought it was kind of wild to see the term in a child's comic book.

Yet today, you'll see every curse word imaginable in comic books, except for racial terms. Weird.