[Jamestown1630]

Comic books were very big in our house, too. I remember whole summers lost in Wonder Woman and Superman - in between that era’s version of romantic historical novels.

The writers of comic books in those days were actually educated people; a lot of real wit and literacy went into comic books.

-JT

[FrankR]

"Comic books were very big in our house, too."

Yep, me too. I had tons of Superman, Superboy, Batman, etc comics. A lot of other guys had collections too, and we'd have a monthly "comic book swap", and trade comic books for ones we hadn't read. Even swap, unless the cover was missing, then it took two cover-less ones to get one with a cover.

I remember seeing new words and looking them up in the dictionary. Learned a lot of words back in the early 50's that way. Of course, we didn't have the distractions of computers and other gadgets to read the books to us, so we had to learn. We even learned to write Cursive in the 3rd grade.

Today's youth seems like the steel balls in a pinball machine...just roll around aimlessly until you encounter a bumper, then go the other way...all while traveling downhill towards being in the hole.