Martin and Lewis on radio

It seems I am in a Martin and Lewis mood this week. So here they are on their own radio show. Oh by the way don't play the first one. It didn't turn out too good and it sounds like the chipmunks. The second one is pretty good.

Martin and Lewis Scared Stiff

I have been watching a lot of Martin and Lewis movies on DVD lately. Not only did it provide me with some good clean fun but I also saw that Scared Stiff, their obligatory comedy team meets ghost movie, is full of pop culture icons. Not only does it have Dean and Jerry but it also stars Lizbeth Scott, Carmen Miranda, George Dolenz (Father of the Monkees Micky Dolenz) and a cameo by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. I never thought that many pop culture icons would be in Scared Stiff as it is one of the least known of the duos films. Above is the film trailer.

Here is a scene where Dean sings with Carmen.



Here is a scene with Dean singing to Lizbeth Scott. The man he is talking to at the beginning of the scene is George Dolenz.



I tried to find a video where they met Hope and Crosby in the film but no luck there. If I do find it I will post it here.

Blue Beetle On Radio

For those of you old time radio fans here is the origin of the Blue Beetle on radio from 1940.

A message from DC Comics Publisher

Here is a message from DC's publisher in 1977. She explains why they started putting out their Dollar Comics at that time. That was a huge price jump at the time and it also shed some light on why some of the writers and artist at the time thought comics wouldn't be around in the 21st Century. Click on the picture and read it.

Showcase Presents: The Suicide Squad Vol. 1

I just found out that Suicide Squad, the version written by John Ostrander and art by Luke McDonnell and Karl Kesel, is coming out in May. I believe that it will be in the middle of the month.
I read almost the entire series that lasted 66 issues and it was great. The stories were usually continued into each other so to have them all in one is a good deal even if they are in black and white. The artwork for the paperback edition has not been released yet but I have given you a look at the cover of the first issue in the series.

For those of you who have never read or heard of the series here is the idea behind it. Some mission are too dangerous to risk the lives of good men. So they offer criminals a chance at freedom. They take on the mission and, if they live, they get to go free and they have to keep the squad secret from the public. They never did trust Captain Boomerang so they always tried to find ways to keep him in the squad. It was sort of like the Dirty Dozen meets Mission: Impossible. I highly recommend this book.

Larry Norman and I Wish We'd All Been Ready

I said if I ever figured out how to make embedded music on this site that I would make the first one to be of Larry Norman's song I Wish We'd All Been Ready available. Well here it is. I would like to thank Kent of Forgotten Hits for pointing me in the direction of Divshare. However, I wasn't able to make that work with their free service and my funds are limited. This one with Google I think will work quite well for my finances.

Archie's Funhouse

Here is a video of the just released Archie's Funhouse. This was really the TV version of Archie's Joke Book. Now was the Joke Book selling so well they gave it a TV show or did they do it to boost circulation of the book? I always loved how they superimposed the real live kids coming into the theater and Archie and his friends were on stage preforming.

I Am Legend

I Am Legend with Will Smith arrives on DVD on March 18th. You can pre-order it at Amazon.com today.

Monkees Promo Material and Merchandise

Here are some Monkees Promo material and merchandise I found on Foxytunes.com.

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The Monkees Poster

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DID THE MONKEES REALLY PLAY THIS GUITAR?

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The Monkees Game

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the Monkees car

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The Monkees

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The Monkees Season 1 DVD

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The Monkees at Hard Rock Cafe in Atlantic City!

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The Monkees at Hard Rock Cafe in Atlantic City!

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The Monkees

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the monkees newest set!

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Hey Hey, its the Monkees

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The Monkees

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Hey Hey Were the Monkees Earrings

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IN MY HOUSE: Tiger Beat featuring The Monkees

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The Monkees

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Part of My Monkees Collection

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Secrect Society of Super-Villains

You can pre-order the Showcase Presents: The Secret Society of Super-Villains Volume 1. It comes out later this year. I have heard that it is coming out in May. The above is the cover of the first issue of the book when the comic book came out. I don't have any info on what the Showcase Presents artwork will look like yet.

Complete Collections on DVD-Rom

For those of you who have been planning on buying these DVD-Roms from Marvel time is running out. I heard from a reliable source that Marvel didn't renew with the company that puts them out and will only rely on the digital downloads from their site. Those downloads I have been told are only good to be read on your computer. You can't burn them onto a DVD-Rom. If you want to you can buy them at the Amazon.com link below.

Color Guide

I found this on E-Bay. A color guide for an issue of Daredevil.

Ron Dante and The Archies's Mr. Factory

Social commentary in song by Ron Dante and the Archies.

Mannix introduction

The posting of the TV show Mannix coming to DVD got me to thinking about the the intro to the show. So I looked it up on You Tube and was surprised that there wasn't that many postings there on it. Here is the one I did find for season one. It had a wonderful jazz tune that you can't get out of your head.

Archie's Funhouse: The Complete Series on DVD

I just found out that Archie's Funhouse is going on sale tomorrow. It is a 3 disc set of the complete cartoon series. You can still pre-order it now if you click on the Amazon link below. Won't it be great to hear all of those wonderful Ron Dante tunes again?

Larry Norman Video (PG-13)

I still can't embed audio only but here is a video that someone made of the Larry Norman song "I Wish We'd All Been Ready." If you are younger then 13 you may want your parents to view this with you if any part of it needs explaining.

This Day In Music History: Tab Hunter and Young Love

When the rock era started out it was not uncommon for the same song to be recorded by more then one artist. On this day in music history the song Young Love was #1 on the Billboard charts by Tab Hunter and #4 by Sonny James. It became a signature song for both artist. By having as many artist cover a song as possible it provided more income for the publishers and the songwriters.

The first person to record Young Love was its co-writer Ric Cartey for RCA Records. His version didn't make the charts. Later he played it for Sonny James and he liked it enough to record it.

The president of Dot Records thought Sonny's version would only be a hit on the country charts and wanted it to hit the pop charts at the same time. So he contacted actor Tab Hunter who at that time had not recorded a song. He told him he had a record he wanted him to hear and if Tab could carry a tune at all, he would like him to record it.

As it turned out Tab had a pretty good voice and had sang in his school choir. He liked the song and agreed to record it. Ten days later it was in record stores. Sonny's version also hit the pop charts and it was climbing. However, Tab's was right behind him. On March 2, 1957 Tab's version peaked at #1 and later Sonny's hit #2.

Tab's recording career was short lived at Dot. Warner Brothers had him under contract to make movies and wanted him to concentrate on that. When they sent him on a promotional tour for the movie The Spirit of St. Louis no one asked him about the movie. He mostly got questions about his record. Warner Brothers was furious. Eventually Warner Brothers started their own record label and Tab Hunter was one of the artist they signed first. Tab feels that he was the reason they started their own label. Warner Brothers would rather have their artist earn money for them and not other record labels.

Tab Hunter had a long but sporadic career in films which range from Island of Desire to Grease 2. He was the star of his own sit-com in 1960 called "The Tab Hunter Show." I only lasted one season as it was against the last 30 minutes of "The Ed Sullivan Show." In 1977 he played George Shumway the father of Mary Hartman when he joined the cast of "Forever Fernwood." It was the spin-off show of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." He later formed his own production company to produce his own independent films.

Rest In Peace Larry Norman

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I heard that one of the founders of Contemporary Christian Music, formerly known as Jesus Rock when it first started, Larry Norman died. One of the first Christian Rock songs I heard played and my youth department even sang in church was his song "I Wish We'd All Been Ready." I hope when the Lord returns that we all are. The one reason I have taken longer then usual in posting this, as Mr. Norman passed away last week, is because I was trying to find a way to embed the song here so others could listen to it. I have not had much luck in doing that with the audio only version of Larry Norman singing. So below you can see the video of DC Talk preforming the song. You have to hear it. There version is beautiful.



In the 1960's and 1970's not too many people were producing rock music with Christian lyrics as rock and roll music was closely associated with the Devil and to some people it was called the Devil's Music. Larry Norman was one of the first to show you can still love the Lord Jesus and enjoy rock and roll. He had tried making a career in the secular world of rock and roll but it didn't work out as well as he had hoped, even though his group did have a top 40 hit with a song called "I Love You." He then left the group to release his first solo Christian Rock album called "Upon This Rock" in 1969. It was from this album that "I Wish We'd All Been Ready" was released.
Here is a link to his site Larry Norman.com. Also, here is what Kent at Forgotten Hits has to say about Larry Norman.

Chicago and the Beach Boys

Here is a video of Chicago and the Beach Boys singing "Wishin' You Were Here" and "Surfer Girl."

Top 40 Radio A Blast From The Past

Here is a video of a man with his own show that takes people back to the way top 40 radio use to be.

Superman and Hostess in the Ionic Storm

Love-Man Beast

Normally this is not something I would post here but it is just plain funny. Here for your listening pleasure, or something close to it, is the one, the only (thank goodness), Love-Man Beast.

Teardrop City on Peyton Place

Nighttime soap operas have become a staple on network television. One of the early ones was a show in the 60's called Peyton Place. Here is a video of a group playing the Boyce and Hart song Teardrop City, made a bit more famous by the Monkees, on the night club set of the series Peyton Place.

Bobby Hart Interview

I know that Rhino had 2 parts of a three part interview with Mike Nesmith on their site. However, now I, after a long wait, I finally checked back in and saw that part three of the interview with Nez is up and also they have an interview with Bobby Hart. Bobby is the one on the right in the picture above in case you have never seen him before. That is what he looked like back in the later 1960's. The other is of course his show business friend and partner Tommy Boyce. You can listen to the interviews if you click here or on the title above.

Monkees Kellogg's Commercial

Here is a Monkees Cereal commercial that looks to be from season one. Enjoy!

Orson Welles' Batman

While searching the internet today I came across something I found astounding but before posting found it was a hoax. Orson Welles liked comic books. If this were true it whould not have been too surprising as he was the voice of the Shadow on radio. Welles was known for his painstaking research in to whatever he was working on. Perhaps he would have read the Shadow pulps and that would have lead him to read comic books. According to the hoax, he even said that he loved the Green Lantern/Green Arrow stories from Denny O'Neil in 1973 and attended an early comic book convention. In 1946 he was even talking over with National Periodicals, who later became DC Comics, with making Batman into a movie. This movie may well have been along the lines of what Michael Keaton's Batman movie followed.

The casting was Welles was to be Bruce Wayne/Batman. The Villains were to have been...

Basil Rathbone as the Joker...

George Raft as Two-Face...


James Cagney as the Riddler...

and Marlene Dietrich as Catwoman.

Yes it is a hoax but on You Tube I found the fan movie trailers that showed what the Orson Welles version of Batman may have been like.


Here is Part one.


and this is part two.

I had a hard time deciding if I should put this here or on my comic books site Mail It To Team Up. I decided to post it here and direct the readers of Mail It To Team Up to this site to view it.

Avengers Got Milk?

Remember this commercial for the Got Milk campaign? Does anyone out there know why I can't find the Baby Ruth candy bar commercial that featured Hawkman?

Castle of Love

Well I hope you all had a happy valentine's day. My wife and I did and big spender that I am I took her to White Castle. Yes you read it right I said White Castle. I thought it was only local but it seems to be nationwide. You see this is the third year that White Castle has held a special valentine's dinner. You had to call ahead and make reservations. You should have seen the looks that people gave me when I told them I made reservations at White Castle. But that was the rules. The did let people come in who just walked in like usual but the got the regular tables and no extras.

We were greeted at the door by the hostess who gave my wife a red carnation and seated us at our table which had a cloth tablecloth not the paper kind that you usually see restaurants theses days. There were candles on the tables and a waitress took our order. We were even asked if we wanted and appetizer. The hostess came by and apologized for not having lit the candles about half way through the meal. I told her we thought they weren't lit yet because it was still somewhat light outside. Later after the dinner was over we were given ice cream as a desert and they took our picture. They kept one and gave us a copy. I told my wife it will probably wind up on a bulletin board or their website. Anyway a fun time was had by all at the restaurant. Except for the ones without reservations who wanted to sit at the tables that were reserved.
I didn't take her to the one shown above but that was the only photo of a White Castle that I could find.

Rest in Peace Steve Gerber

Well I am behind the news on this one as I just learned from Booksteve that one of the best comic book writers of the 1970's and probably of any decade, Steve Gerber, passed away on Feb. 10th 2008. Most of his writing that I am familiar with is from Marvel Comics of the 1970's. It was there that he wrote for Man-Thing, Son of Satan, The Defenders, Omega the Unknown, Marvel Two-In-One and was most famous for creating Howard the Duck.

His battle over the rights for Howard the Duck is near legendary in the business and among comic book fans. It is a shame that it seems to have dominated his career and legacy as he put out some fine and entertaining comic books. As Steve said his work was surreal. Still that does make for good literature from time to time and Mr. Gerber's was good literature.

His battle with Marvel was a rallying cry to freelance artist and gave a kick to the Independent comic book industry in the 1980's. Jack Kirby created the character Destroyer Duck that was the star of an anthology series where other major freelancers submitted stories and the sales helped with the legal fees that Mr. Gerber was having a hard time with. That book also gave us the first look at Groo The Wanderer.

It is a shame that he didn't seem to care for all of his body of work. I recall reading a story where a young boy got together enough money to finance a comic book convention in the area. He got Steve Gerber to be the guest of honor but didn't have enough for him to get a motel room so he stayed at the boys house that weekend. The first day the boy had all of his favorite Steve Gerber stories laying on his bed. He showed them to Mr. Gerber. The boy was proud of his collection but got a startling reaction from him. He said he can't believe all the garbage that he had produced over the years. This shook the boy but he said it helped to make him a better writer.

Well Mr. Gerber may have believed that he put out a lot of garbage. I don't agree. However, in life there is good garbage and bad garbage. If he did put out garbage then Steve Gerber put out good garbage.
The above photo is from his site which you can see here or click on the title above. On that site he talks about recently working on a Dr. Fate project. The character seems a perfect fit for his style and I hope DC decides to publish it soon.

Monkees Clip from Too Many GIrls

Here is a Valentine's Day video. From Season one of the Monkees. The Episode is called Too Many Girls. We all know that Davy was a chick magnet but in this teaser to the episode they seem to be throwing themselves at him more then usual.

Happy Birthday Peter Tork

According to the Monkees Quiz below I am more like this man then the rest of the group. Happy Birthday to the smartest and best looking dummy in the world. Peter Tork!

Rest In Peace Roy Scheider

Roy Scheider passed away yesterday after a 2 year battle with myeloma but it is also being reported at this time that he died of complications from a staph infection. So the exact cause of death is unknown. He was nominated for an Oscar for his roles in the French Connection and All That Jazz. However, he is best known for his role as thankless police chief Brody in the movie Jaws. That film was the first to make over $100 million and is said to be the beginning of the blockbuster movie era. Three years later he repeated his role in the sequel Jaws 2. While he had been well known in Hollywood, he was not a household name until the Jaws series of films.

Monkees quiz

Well this wasn't too surprising to me. I thought it would either be Peter or Mike. I would have been shocked if it said was was more like Micky or Davy. Take the quiz and see which one you are most like.

Take the Hey Hey, Which Monkee Are You? Quiz.

New Kid in Town

Welcome to the new kid in town Forgotten Hits. Actually I know Kent from when he and his Forgotten Hits lived in the town of e-mail newsletters. He had to move after a problem with AOL. Kent and his friends are very knowledgeable about music from the 1960's and a lot of fun to read. So click on over to his site and give him a friendly hello. Only one posting there right now but I know there will be a lot more real soon and it will be informative and fun. If you loved the Peter Noone interview that is on this site you can thank Kent. Kent is also a big Monkees fan like myself so info on them will turn up from time to time. He gave me permission to put it on this site as he was the interviewer and ran it on his newsletter. He recently had a Phil Spector special that he had to stop suddenly when he had to move but it was fun to read. Welcome to town Kent! I think you'll like it.
Also, the above photo is not from his site. I just found this on another site that I don't know the name. The image came up in a search and when I clicked to see it only the image came up and not the site it was on. Thanks to whatever site it was from for your contribution.

To welcome Kent and his Forgotten Hits to blogspot here is a You Tube clip of the Eagles singing "The New Kid in Town" live!

This Day In Music History: Elvis Presley and Too Much

For nine weeks Guy Mitchell had the #1 hit on the Billboard Charts with "Singing the Blues." On this day in music history, February 9, 1957 Elvis Presley thought that nine weeks was too much and he reclaimed his position at the top of the charts with..."Too Much." :) It was the first #1 hit for 1957.

Now Elvis had appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show three times and Elvis went from being a regional to national celebrity. The first time Elvis was on the show Ed Sullivan was sick and not on his own live broadcast. Actor Charles Laughton filled in for him on that broadcast. Ed was on the others and on his third and last appearance on January 6, 1957 Elvis was only shot from the waist up and he sang seven songs. One of those songs was the premiere of "Too Much."

The song was part of a three day recording session that began on September 1, 1956. Musicians Scotty Moore, Bill Black and D. J. Fontana were flown to Hollywood to back up Elvis on the songs that would be his second album for RCA Records. The album, simply titled Elvis, was released in October of 1956 but they held "Too Much" for release in January of 1957.

One moth before Elvis released "Too Much" he took part in a recording session at Sun records that became legendary. In December Sam Phillips of Sun was producing a record for Carl Perkins. Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis were there to record and Johnny Cash stopped by. A picture of the four famous musicians was taken and released to the newspapers.

For years this was known as the Million Dollar Quartet but no recordings were known to have survived. Then in 1981 the recordings surfaced and an album was released in England. It then became known that Cash was there visiting when the picture was taken but left later to do some shopping.

After "Too Much" was released Elvis bought a home in Tennessee from Mrs. Ruth Brown Moore for $100,000. It was built by her husband Dr. Thomas Moore and named after her Aunt Grace. Elvis liked the name and kept it. The name of course was Graceland.

Here is a video of Elvis singing it live on television.

My Second 45

Not long ago I recalled when I got my first 45. It was a second hand one of the Monkees Daydream Believer. Today I recall my second 45. It was the duet between Elton John and Kiki Dee singing "Don't Go Breaking My Heart." I bought it at Elsmere Drugs in Elsmere, Ky. Now the owner of the place was named Sid and he and my Grandad where friends. So everyone in my family called it Sid's. For the first 20 years of my life I never heard anyone call it Elsmere Drugs. It was when I was in college and I was talking to my friend Chuck and I told him I was going to Sid's and he didn't know what I was talking about. I told him where it was at. I remember saying "It was the place on Dixie Highway in Elsmere next to the bakery." His eyes lit up with recognition and he said "You mean Elsmere Drugs?" That was when I realized not everyone called it Sid's.

Anyway I bought this with my own money and I believe it was the first one I bought with my own money. I remember listening to it with my friends Dave, Chuck (another Chuck) and Doug. We all enjoyed it. I remember Dave wondering if Elton and Kiki were dating as they positioned him on the picture sleeve looking at her. Oh if we only knew then.

I have loved many of Elton John's songs. Two of my favorites of his early songs where "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart." I will never for get how could it felt to hear them for the first time.

80 Page Giant Memories

The late 1960's were a fun time in comic books. One part of the fun for me was the DC comics 80 page Giant comic books. Mostly they were reprints of stories that came out years before I was born but they were new to me. Most of the stories I don't recall that well to this day but I remember enjoying them. On Batman #182 my favorite story was the one with the Rainbow Batman. I don't remember the story but after seeing Batman in drab gray and dark blue it was fun to see Batman in bright colors. I usually saw them at my cousin Steve's house. He was, actually he still is, 3 years older and we would play together and he would let me sit on his bed and read his comics. I could tell he was wanting to play more games as he could read these anytime he wanted. For me reading these books opened up other worlds to me that I didn't have access to any other way. I lived too far from stores that carried them and had to depend on Mom and Dad to bring them home to me or wait till we were in town to get them. So to see these books at my cousins house was always exciting.
One time after leaving there I was in the car reading a book that had the origin of Robin. I don't remember if Steve let me borrow it or if I got it from Mom and Dad. I had never read the origin of Robin till then. I had also never saw the word origin before. I asked Mom and Dad how to pronounce it. They told me to try to say it phonetically. I did but I said orange. My Dad pronounced it correctly but it still sounded like orange to me.

A Glass of Milk

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way
through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He
decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his
nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.

Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked
hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it so slowly, and then
asked, How much do I owe you?"

You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taug ht us never to
accept pay for a kindness."

He said ... "Then I thank you from my heart."
As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but
his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.

Many year's later that same young ! woman be came critically ill. The local
doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they
called in specialists to study her rare disease.

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name
of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes.

Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.
Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once.

He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her
life. From that day he gave special attention to her case. After a long struggle, the battle was won.

Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for
approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was
sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the
rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught
her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words ... "Paid in full with one glass of milk"
(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You,
God, that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands."

There's a saying which goes something like this: Bread cast on the waters
comes back to you. The good deed you do today may benefit you or someone you
love at the least expected time. If you never see the deed again at least
you will have made the world a better place - And, after all, isn't that
what life is all about?

Superman From The 30's To The 70's

The year is 1974. My Mom and Dad would on occasion drive to Cincinnati, Ohio to go shopping at the McAlpin's department store that is now called Dillards. I was 13 years old and allowed to roam the store on my own and sometimes the downtown area since my parents knew my regular stops. This was in the days before it started being reported that children were being kidnapped in broad daylight.

Anyway on one trip I saw the Bonanza Books Superman from the 30's to the 70's and Batman from the 30's to the 70's. I believe there was one for Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel too but my memory isn't what it should be anymore. I do know those books existed but I am not sure if they were for sale at that store at that time. For some reason I didn't buy it when I was with my Mom and Dad.

Now my Mom and Dad would let me take the bus to Cincinnati. One day not long after seeing the books at McAlpin's I ask my cousin Randy to go with me on one trip. As my cousin Randy liked to read as much as I did I asked him if he wanted to go to Cincinnati with me. His Mom wasn't so sure we should but when my Mom said she would let me wander the downtown area, as back then it was safe to do so, she said it was ok.

We took the bus and arrived at the Dixie Terminal. We walked to McAlpin's and bought the books. I remember Randy buying the Batman book while I bought the Superman one. They were now on sale for $3. Sometimes it pays to wait.

We went to some of the other places I normally went to. The guy who sold newspapers and magazines on the street corner. I bought Nova #1 from him but not on this trip. There was some records shops and the Ohio Bookstore. There must be a story or two I have in me from visits to that store. We got some lunch and then caught the bus home. It was a fun day to share with Randy. We talked on the bus and even read some of the stories on the way home.

Eventually I did buy the Batman book too and even the Wonder Woman one. I don't have the Wonder Woman book anymore. I still have Superman and Batman. I hope to keep them forever as they bring back some wonderful memories.

A few years later I was in the newly built Florence Mall in Florence, Ky with a friend from High School. My friend was deeply into music. He didn't care much for comic books and thought they were childish.He was always asking me when I was going to stop reading them. We were in a bookstore there and I saw the Superman book there selling for $6. I held it up and told him when a regular comic book sells for this price I will stop. Well now that they are selling for $3 or $4 each I have pretty much stopped buying new comic books. I do buy old comics for that price as they may go up in value. But a new one is not worth it to me anymore. So it looks like I kept my promise to my friend.