Wrestling Can Be Anything - back issues
Single issues of #1-5 are sold out but the stories within are collected here: https://www.lulu.com/shop/alan-boon/wrestling-can-be-anything-vol-1/paperback/product-6zm86y.html?q=wrestling+can+be+anything
WCBA #1 kicks off a five-part history of Fighting Opera HUSTLE, or what happens when a mixed martial arts company in Japan tries to do the WWF, and also the first part of the story of the Insane Clown Posse and professional wrestling. They’re backed up by smaller stories on that time The Thing from the Fantastic Four became a wrestler, Mexico’s political luchador Super Barrio, and a look at the Mountain Goats’ Beat The Champ album.
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40 pages, black & white, 10pt Trebuchet MS.
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WCBA #2 continues the stories of Fighting Opera HUSTLE and Juggalo Championship Wrestling, and starts a three-part look at the career of Charles Wright, the WWF's Papa Shango/Godfather. Also features an introduction to Danhausen and a deep dive into the Leonard Rossiter-starring 70s wrestling sitcom, The Losers.
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40 pages, black & white, 10pt Trebuchet MS.
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WCBA #3 continues the stories of Fighting Opera HUSTLE, the Insane Clown Posse's wrestling adventures, and the WWF's Charles Wright, and also features an introduction to CHIKARA's Nouveau Aesthetic, BLANK & Still Life With Apricots And Pears. Rounding out the issue is the deepest dive EVER into Grunt! The Wrestling Movie.
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44 pages, black & white, 10pt Trebuchet MS
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Issue four of the funky wikipedia of wrestling 'zines features part four of our five-part look at Fighting Opera HUSTLE, the final chapters of both the Charles Wright & Insane Clown Posse stories, that time the WWWF booked Battman, the story of Steven Universe's Tiger Millionaire, and we finally get to the best pure babyface in modern wrestling, Nick Gage!
40 pages, black & white, 10pt Trebuchet MS
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The end of a volume of sorts, WCBA #5 completes the stories of Fighting Opera HUSTLE and Nick Gage, and also looks at the comic book wrestling career of Crusher Hogan, Southern Culture On The Skids & the history of wrestling bears, and the influence of Mad Max on professional wrestling!
44 pages, black & white, 10pt Trebuchet MS
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WCBA #6 is the PUNK issue, and all the stories in this issue are about punk wrestling or punks in wrestling or wrestling in punk. Get the full story of Dark Wrestling Organisation 666, the low down on ANTiSEEN's wrestling album and Bob Mould's Hardcore Wrestling 'zine. Read about the career of "Prince of Punk" Shannon Moore, why the Angry Samoans are Los Angeles wrestling, and Jaime Hernandez's lucha Locas from Love & Rockets!
44 pages, black & white, 10pt Trebuchet MS
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Kicking off the second volume of stories about the weird world of professional wrestling, WCBA #7 shines a light on the worst comic book ever produced, the best videogame ever produced, and more. Read about Kevin Nash, the AKI engine, the Butcher, the roots of monster wrestling in W*ING, Uncle Grandpa's History of Wrestling, and a primer on Mexican wrestling movies, all in funky fact fashion.
40 pages, black & white, 10pt Trebuchet MS
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Issue 8 of your favourite funky fact 'zine continues the stories of W*ING and the worst comic book ever produced, and also brings you the short history of the Man with the Bionic Arm, the lucha killer, the greatest moment in WWF history, and psychedelic meditations on World of Sport wrestling! All this and a bonus Bonanza piece!
44 pages, black & white, 10pt Trebuchet MS
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Finally someone has juxtaposed the early history of the world wrestling championship with Little House on the Prairie, and you can read about it in WCBA #9! There's also some Star Wars, some Transformers, the greatest wrestling movie never seen, and the story of W*ING hits monster town! All this AND part 1 of a look at the career of Kevin Sullivan!
44 pages, black & white, 10pt Trebuchet MS
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It's Christmas! And what better way to celebrate than with a look at some of the horrible ways that wrestling and Santa have combined, along with more on W*ING and Kevin Sullivan, AND a look at the brief lucha career of Los Thundercats! Bumper 52 pages issue!
52 pages, black & white, 10pt Trebuchet MS
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Issue 11 of the ongoing scientific study to prove that Wrestling Can Be Anything dips into the NOW! with a look at the Marvel Comics/AAA lucha crossover, and then travels back in time for a story that involves Nazis, fake Nazis, champion boxers, skyscraper-heisters, and ghoststoppers, as well as finishing up the histories of W*ING & Kevin Sullivan!
44 pages, black & white, 10pt Trebuchet MS
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SCREAM FOR ME, LONG BEACH! The VERY METAL issue of WCBA is here, with the full run down on ALL of WCW's heavy metal gimmicks, the lowdown on WARHORSE, the disaster that was the WWF's collaboration with Chaos! Comics, and the collision of wrestling and GWAR!
44 pages, black & white, 10pt Trebuchet MS
