A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 23

This is the fifth year in a row I’ve run this series in April.

Today’s story: Best Dad Ever Sells Amazing Spider-Man #1 To Fund Daughter’s Wedding.

This is love. An Ohio man remembered he might have a copy of the first Spider-Man comic ever in a box in his attic, found it, and sold it to help pay for his daughter’s wedding.

“I gave my daughter a promissory note for the money with a picture of the Spider-Man comic, which we can use to pay for a big part of the catering for her reception,” Richard Schaen, 69, told the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.

Schaen had bought the comic in 1963 at a Columbus drugstore for 12 cents. He had continued collecting comics up until adulthood when the birth of his daughter Jane (who is getting married) forced him to stop his comic book hobby.

“Comics had gone up to 75 cents by then and I was spending $40 a month,” he told the Plain-Dealer. “Also, it took two evenings a week to read the new comics and with a new baby in the house, I found myself stretched.”

Schaen however, kept his comics in the home. “I put them away for a rainy day,” he said. The Spider-Man comic was not in perfect condition, but was in good enough shape to contribute $7,000 towards the cost of the wedding.

I’m not going to do any heavy lifting on this one because there are so many obvious ways you can exploit this conceit, everything from losing the comic, the comic getting stolen, guys sells beloved comic, then the couple gets into a huge argument and the wedding is off, and on and on.

Folks, this one is all yours to brainstorm.

There you go: My twenty third story idea for the month. And it’s yours. Free!

What would you do with it?

Each day this month, I invite you to join me in comments to do some brainstorming. Gender bend, genre bend, what if. Take each day’s story idea and see what it can become when we play around with it. These are all valuable skills for a writer to develop.

See you in comments (hit Reply to join the conversation). And come back tomorrow for another Story Idea Each Day For A Month.

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