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Originally Posted by 1960HDGMC

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Hey DAC, Glad that made your day. I have been offline with a dead modem for the past few days. I will keep looking for the 1960 OPP, so I can make my day. I think the 1960 and 1961 GMCs were the only years for the "Comic Book" manuals. They may well be the only comic style books in all of automobilia. I have never heard of such a novel idea for a manual from any other maker. Even among GM brands, there are no other comic type manuals that I am aware of, I mean of which I am aware. Thanks, Greg Mead

So the Comic book style operator guides started in 1955 and ran through 1961. I have been steadily collecting each one of them (since I also collect 50's GMC's) and so far I have all of them except the elusive 56 & 57 ones. Here are some pics of the cool cover art found on the 55-59 ones. I will have to dig up my 61 copy and snap a shot of it for ya'll

PS - at first glance, its easy to assume the 59 & 59 copies are identical - but look at each trucks front bumper! That's right - 1959 marked the end of the iconic "bumper bombs" GMC was famous for in the mid-to-late fifties. So the cover art was altered to eliminate the bombs for 59, otherwise the contents of these two books is the exact same.