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Are my rose colored glasses affecting my vision?

Oh, that trip back in memory lane. I haven't written a journal in over two years. It isn't that I died or had no desire, I just had other things going on. I went back to grad school to finish work on my Doctorate in Education, so I was studying a lot and my money was going toward tuition and books as opposed to collectibles. So, I finished up in late July (well, except for the dissertation) and now I can sort of get back to my life. I found myself reading a lot of comic books from the early
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Starting Over From Scratch (Basically)

Nowhere to go but up... As I have mentioned in previous journals, I collected comics pretty hard from my early childhood (started at age 6 in 1972) until the early 1990's. I purchased the odd back issue off and on until 2001 when I decided it was time to sell my collection since I hadn't really done much with it for years. It wasn't big by the standards of most of you. It was probably 1,500-2,000 comics. It was a lot of stuff from the 70's and 80's, with maybe 10% from the 60's. I didn't have
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Am I the only one? Am I the only oddball?

Where do I fit in the world of comic collectors? Like many of you, I read. I read a lot. I read comics, but I also read history and science and a whole lot of other things. But here's a list of the things that do not interest me at all: Harry Potter Lord of the Rings The Hobbit Walking Dead Zombies Vampires Dark things in general Goth Sword and sorcery in general Magic (or Magik for that matter) Star Wars Star Trek any other Spacey series Modern comics Anime Mut
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Oh, to see my name in the bright lights... or, even better, in the letter column!!!

The chase to get a letter printed in a major comic book. I can't speak for current collectors, but the kids that I knew that collected comics in the 70's and early 80's always read the letter columns. Sometimes we read the letter and agreed with the writer and determined that the letter writer was clearly genius. More often, we read it and determined that we could certainly write better letters and that we should see our own letters in the comics. This, of course, coincided with our "we can wr
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The Fantastic Four and how it fits into my little corner of the universe...

A little something about why I love this title, and why it has such significance to me. I was born in 1965 and I purchased my first comic book in early 1972. I was a kid on a 25 cent allowance, so I was only buying four or five comics a month. So, these books were generally the characters that I knew from television: Superman, Batman, etc. But, occasionally my dad would bring home a comic for me, which was beyond my allowance. On one such day, I had gotten straight A's on my report card, so da
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