tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1950548200539861214.post7169356389303316287..comments2024-03-02T04:06:40.545-08:00Comments on Barry's Pearls of Comic Book Wisdom: The Making of a Marvel Masterworks Introduction: Tales of Suspense Vol. 4Barry Pearlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833042323353543770noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1950548200539861214.post-45274033541912208482014-08-09T09:24:21.580-07:002014-08-09T09:24:21.580-07:00Thank you so much for this lovely walk down memory...Thank you so much for this lovely walk down memory lane. These comics were my fodder when I was growing up; I weep to think I had the #1 edition of every one of the current Marvel heroes we now take for granted... I could have put my grandkids through college with my collection. How fondly I remember perusing the pages of stories about Tim Boo Ba (my all-time favorite) and The Mask of Morgumm, among hundreds of others. I will certainly look for these anthologies as they become available.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1950548200539861214.post-69022081541098525962014-07-11T15:00:15.882-07:002014-07-11T15:00:15.882-07:00Always great to read about a subject by someone wh...Always great to read about a subject by someone who actually knows what they are talking about!ditkomaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07739212863314839316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1950548200539861214.post-28966755084166146642014-07-08T04:09:40.502-07:002014-07-08T04:09:40.502-07:00Great article, Barry. I'm only sorry I never g...Great article, Barry. I'm only sorry I never got a chance to write one of these intros. I love those old Marvel monster comics...especially the Lee/Ditko mini-masterpieces. The only comics I can think of that were told as simply and powerfully were the war comics that Harvey Kurtzman wrote and illustrated himself!Doccomixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16484184396575779728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1950548200539861214.post-78652402413494256892014-07-05T19:07:59.335-07:002014-07-05T19:07:59.335-07:00I often feel sad when I remember the great shops o...I often feel sad when I remember the great shops of my childhood that no longer exist. They were places of great familiarity that were each almost a 'home-from-home' to me. To realise now that I can never revisit them (except in memory - or in some cases, old photos) is a rather sobering thought. Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1950548200539861214.post-86903390604757072942014-07-05T14:14:50.362-07:002014-07-05T14:14:50.362-07:00Bob,
We were lucky. Those little stores even had...Bob,<br /><br />We were lucky. Those little stores even had the “cell” phones of the day: Pay telephones. We run in when we had to make a call, pick up some candy and a comic and say hello to the people who ran the store….they knew us. We’d step in when it began to rain and didn’t buy that much, but weren’t chased out. It gave us a sense of neighborhood.<br /><br />By coincidence, a friend moved to my old neighborhood last year, 108th Street in Forest Hills, NY, not far from where Peter Parker lived. I walked the four blocks (eight in total when you count both sides of the street) just to see how the world has changed. I had seven stores to buy comics and perhaps twelve to get newspapers. Now there are none for comics and maybe two or three for newspapers, which are fading too.<br /><br />If I wanted to sit down at a counter and have a soda or malt there used to be a dozen, now there are none. You can get them, but Baskin Robbins, Dairy Queen, McDonalds etc gives you nowhere to sit. This is one diner left. The delis have been replaced, mostly by fast food. Of course the book stores, TV repair, shoemaker, Men clothing, toy and hobby, music stores, bagel places (where they actually made the bagels) are all gone. Even the “real” ice cream stores are gone.<br /><br />Are things better now? Well, overwhelmingly for me yes. “But life is made of small comings and goings and for everything we take with us there is something we leave behind.” And I have left a bit too much behind. Not just those great comics, but the places that sold them.<br />Barry Pearlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03833042323353543770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1950548200539861214.post-64926301900518355692014-07-05T13:11:27.216-07:002014-07-05T13:11:27.216-07:00Very well done Barry. I especially enjoyed the pa...Very well done Barry. I especially enjoyed the part about the local candy/drugstore. We were very lucky in late 50s and early 60s to have locally owned stores like that who had room for a 10 or 12 cent comic. I myself bought almost all my early comics in local drugstores/soda shoppes. It was in the seventies when they began to disappear I began getting them at 7-Elevens and other similar stores. Now you have to go into a comic shop to get them unless you are lucky and see an Archie Digest on an endcap as you check out at the grocery store. Thanks for comic remembrances. -- BobAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01187023195901440856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1950548200539861214.post-50823339743488121122014-07-05T09:26:48.291-07:002014-07-05T09:26:48.291-07:00Barry, you must have far too much stuff in your ho...Barry, you must have far too much stuff in your house. Purely out of the generosity of my heart, I'll relieve you of some of it so that you have more room to move around. Send me about half of your comics and books right away. Am I a great guy or what? Oh, and nice article. I'd have told you sooner, but I don't want to make you big-headed.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.com