The A-Z Blogging Challenge - The Letter C - Comic Book Covers

I have had a lifetime love affair with the comic book. There is nothing like scanning the rack of colorful covers and picking out those that appealed most. Eventually everyone realizes that sometimes the events on the cover have nothing to do with the story within. They are just the tease to get you in the door. I wish that mattered to me but it doesn't. I love anything an artist does that can catch my eye and of course my favorites will always be so because I can recognize the EFFORT they put into a quality cover.

I have many great childhood memories of my father bringing me home a pile of comics each time he had to be away from us in his role as a soldier. I spent hour in my big leather chair, decompressing from school by taking my imagination on a trip between the covers of a good comic book. I feel sorry for anyone who never got to experience comic books the way I did.

My mother worked at a military hotel that soldiers and their families stayed at when they first arrived in Europe or were leaving. She would have her cleaners collect any comics or magazines left behind and she would bring them back to me at the end of the week.





All the kids in our building knew that I would have new comics to trade and would meet me a the top of our floor's staircase and we would do business. I had many doubles to get rid of and they had comics they had read all week to trade. Usually it was one for one which seemed the most fair way to do things.

I lost those books when boxes from my room were lost when we moved back to Canada from Germany but in my teens I got back into collecting and amassed a collection of 12,000. I stopped buying the hard copies when they became to expensive and comics were easier to read for free online.

There is still nothing like the feel or smell of a comic book in your hands. Go buy one for a child in your life and see the look on their face as they are consumed by the format.