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Comic Books

cyclonefence

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6. I was born in 1947, and by the time I was reading comic books

Reply to nightwing1240 (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2022, 12:07 PM

Dec 2022

they were being blamed as the source of all readers. My father, god bless him, believed that it didn't matter what a child read so long as she was reading.

I had a big cardboard box under my bed full of Little Lulu and Katy Keene, and I haven't stopped reading since then.

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Comic Books made me the reader that I am [View all] nightwing1240 Dec 2022 OP

My story is almost the same as yours. rurallib Dec 2022 #1

Similar experience... Wuddles440 Dec 2022 #2

Same here. They guy who ran the news agency also distributed comic books and magazines Midnight Writer Dec 2022 #3

Very cool! nightwing1240 Dec 2022 #4

In all honesty nightwing1240 Dec 2022 #5

I was born in 1947, and by the time I was reading comic books cyclonefence Dec 2022 #6

Lulu was my absolute favorite! yellowdogintexas Dec 2022 #8

I didn't know such a thing existed! cyclonefence Dec 2022 #10

It was around at least until I was 10 or 11 (so maybe 1960) yellowdogintexas Dec 2022 #11

My Dad used to buy me 2-4 comic books weekly and Mad magazine to get me reading kimbutgar Dec 2022 #7

My start was the Sunday Comics! My dad read them to me yellowdogintexas Dec 2022 #9