Last week, our office was visited by a Rubbermaid full of classic 1960s comics.
They belong to co-worker Anna's father, and she was blindly cool enough to bring them in for me and Josh to manhandle. Delicately.
The collection has great runs on Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, Daredevil (even Awful Original Costume Daredevil).. and my favorite, the Fantastic Four.
I was bold enough to actually remove issue #50 from the bag and leaf through the finale of the Silver Surfer / Galactus story. I was torn, because human beings really should not be touching this stuff. These books are in great condition. But I had to see the original. The newsprint, the colors... the aura of Stan & Jack, just as we first met them. Books like this don't fall around me that often these days, so this was like some kind of personal enlightenment.
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