Free Comic Books!! Yeah!!!
It's not exactly in this district (it's the WRONG side of Broadway). The "Annex" has been around for awhile. Yeah, it's cramped, smells kind of funky, & the floors are uneven. Get over it! This Sat. they have free comics to give away! It's "National Comic Book Day!" Don't worry if you miss it, they probably will have extra even after.
As a librarian with little $, I decided to beef up my periodical section & try a few comics. O-O-O-h, some purists didn't like this. "Junk" reading. Not real literature. Au contraire, these proved so popular that there would be actual fights over them. So I expanded the collection & even bought doubles!
If you're a kid & you're reading, it's a good thing! How many adults always read Nobel Prize lit??? Give me a break!
As a kid they cost 5 cents. The annuals were 25 cents (lots of saving of small change went on here). I LOVED: Superman, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Archie, & Batman among others. My brother & I shared them. We shared with our friends. It was fun!! We learned to read & had a darn good time doing so. They also had good ads in the back. Ah, the good old days.
So go already. Take your kids. Or not. They give them to adults, too
What were your favs?
Thanks to "Daily News - Spare Change" & Jim Gillis for the reminder. BTW, Jim, I just heard "I've Got a Brand New Pair of Roller Skates" at the Corner Cafe & I was reminded again of how much I like it. You're all wet!
As a librarian with little $, I decided to beef up my periodical section & try a few comics. O-O-O-h, some purists didn't like this. "Junk" reading. Not real literature. Au contraire, these proved so popular that there would be actual fights over them. So I expanded the collection & even bought doubles!
If you're a kid & you're reading, it's a good thing! How many adults always read Nobel Prize lit??? Give me a break!
As a kid they cost 5 cents. The annuals were 25 cents (lots of saving of small change went on here). I LOVED: Superman, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Archie, & Batman among others. My brother & I shared them. We shared with our friends. It was fun!! We learned to read & had a darn good time doing so. They also had good ads in the back. Ah, the good old days.
So go already. Take your kids. Or not. They give them to adults, too
What were your favs?
Thanks to "Daily News - Spare Change" & Jim Gillis for the reminder. BTW, Jim, I just heard "I've Got a Brand New Pair of Roller Skates" at the Corner Cafe & I was reminded again of how much I like it. You're all wet!
2 comments:
Eileen,
Comics were always a staple when I was growing up back in the Jurassic Age. Among my favorites were "Little Lulu" and the "Archie" comics. Later on, many of us moved to the more "sophisticated" (Ha!) "Mad" magazines. That may have been the basis of appreciating irony. We turned out just fine, didn't we?
As a matter of fact, I used comic strips and cartoons to teach dialogue to fifth graders. Whatever you see in the call-outs, or talking "balloons," should be in quotation marks. That's enough for today's English lesson. This is a great site.
"Mad Magazine." Weren't we rebels then! I'd almost forgotten. My sons have bought them a few times. But not much thrill for them. I suppose because it's not such a radical change from the typical mag as it was then.
That teaching idea with the balloons was a good one!
Thanks for the compliment. It's fun & I meet really neat people online.
"What me, worry?"
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