A Thought On Turning Fifty

Today marks my Fiftieth birthday. Incredible how time flies. What I would not give to go back exactly 40 years, the time I first started to collect comics. Marvel comics had just gone up in price to 20 cents and DC comics were at their 52 page, 25 cents stage. If you told me back then that I would be collecting comics today, let alone paying hundreds of dollars on a single book, I would have said that you were...... well, you know. As I have stated in my bio, I collected comics throughout the 1970s before caling it quits. I would not resume buying comics again until 2002. I think that those of us that have returned to collecting after a long absence all feel the need to re-capture our childhood in some way. Now, for anyone that says I will be collecting 30 years from now....

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