"Then we see businessmen on shoeshine stands pretending to read a newspaper, but *gasp*, they’re reading the magazine! Why advertise the magazine as something you don’t want people to see you reading?"
I thought that comment was hilarious and a good question at the same time about Wrap Up. I have a few copies of this "magazine". It's very light reading, not a lot of pages, mostly pictures and the format of it being a coffee table sized magazine does not work well. It was odd it wasn't at newsstands, but perhaps that had to do with the coffee table size. I got these because I contacted WCW and asked for a press pass for a magazine to shoot ringside photos at a house show and their response for some reason was to send me a copy of this "magazine" and put me on the mailing list to receive press releases, if I recall.
I was shocked to see Joel Goodhart is back period and doing a TWA show. They can always come back in the pro wrestling world, right? Where did you see the footage of the TWA show you reviewed here. Excellent write-up!
I had no idea they were rare. I’ll have to dig up one and post the cover and inside contents page in Notes. I imagine it provides an interesting snapshot of the era for whatever month/year it was published.
"Then we see businessmen on shoeshine stands pretending to read a newspaper, but *gasp*, they’re reading the magazine! Why advertise the magazine as something you don’t want people to see you reading?"
I thought that comment was hilarious and a good question at the same time about Wrap Up. I have a few copies of this "magazine". It's very light reading, not a lot of pages, mostly pictures and the format of it being a coffee table sized magazine does not work well. It was odd it wasn't at newsstands, but perhaps that had to do with the coffee table size. I got these because I contacted WCW and asked for a press pass for a magazine to shoot ringside photos at a house show and their response for some reason was to send me a copy of this "magazine" and put me on the mailing list to receive press releases, if I recall.
I was shocked to see Joel Goodhart is back period and doing a TWA show. They can always come back in the pro wrestling world, right? Where did you see the footage of the TWA show you reviewed here. Excellent write-up!
Thanks for the comments! Lucky you, having copies of that magazine. I imagine they'd be worth something depending on the condition, due to the rarity.
The two full matches I reviewed were on the Goodhelmet Yearbook, but the full show's on YouTube.
I had no idea they were rare. I’ll have to dig up one and post the cover and inside contents page in Notes. I imagine it provides an interesting snapshot of the era for whatever month/year it was published.
Dude, I love these! Hogan’s promo is so sublimely incoherent—These reviews are like reliving a week of my childhood.