Paul Wilcox

I was re-watching The Hidden, remembering many of those Hollywood and Melrose locations, and I thought of Bond Street Books. I couldn't remember the name at first, so I traveled east on Hollywood Blvd in Google street view until I came to...yes! Wilcox! And then I searched for any mention of Bond Street Books. I bought lots of MADs and 5-10 year-old Marvel and DC comics there, as many of you did, as well as lots of paperbacks, including Doc Savage (having the James Bama covers) and Agatha Christie (I liked mysteries). This was 1968-1969, I was in my earliest teens, as yet unaware of collecting comics, but learning then that older ones were for some reason quite expensive. I loved Cherokee Books, too. They had lots of the early MAD Magazines - over time I read most of them there. I was/must have looked a decent kid, wearing a yarmulke, so, I don't know, they just let me read. Had I been ten or fifteen years older, with a little money, I would have bought all the early '60's stuff I then only read. Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Neal Adams, Jim Steranko and Jack Kirby were among my favorite artists.