When I, like most of my contemporaries from the 1940's look back on our childhood years, one of the things that happened all those years ago was the comic book, or as we called them "funny books." Most of us will confess to having had at one time or another the first editions of many of the comics that today are known as "Golden Age" comics. On a very personal basis, I must confess that I had Volume I Number I of the Superman comic back in 6th grade as I recall. Each year as final exams were given and we were waiting dismissal for the summer, many classroom teachers allowed us to bring in whatever we chose to wile away the hours. Ronny Doyle and I chose comic books. Ronny was an avid "Batman" fan, and I was a Superman, and Captain America fan. On this particular day, Ronny and I decided to trade our duplicates. His for mine and vice versa. Well, don't you know, Ronny had the very first issue of Superman. As I recall I traded him 2 or 3 of my "Detective Comics" featuring Batman and Robin. I also cringe as I recall a huge baseball card collection I had back during those years. We used to "flip" cards and my library grew and grew. I had Joe DiMaggio rookie card, and right up to the early 1950's Yankee cards including Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford were all part of a stack that filled a shoe box; I could go on. WHO KNEW?
JoeZ said...
JoeZ said...Tom: We could have been worth millions, I saved all those cards and then Mom got rid of them somehow. As Frank Sinatra would say "That's Life."
