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Comics and the History of Comics
I was lucky enough that despite being deprived and largely orphaned as a
child that I grew up with access to the newspaper stand, Carvel ice
cream, and the Spaldeen. At the age of 12 or so, I was hustling the
Canarsie Courier at the L train station at Rockaway Parkway. On
Wednesday's they sold papers to the local kids for a nickle and we then
hustled them for a dime. I would sneak into the station and ride the
train up to New Lots Avenue and hustle them on the train ride back to
Rockaway Parkway (which was the terminal station). Across the street
there was a newspaper stand on the corner of Glenwood Road and Rockaway Parkway. I picked up my first four comics from that newspaper stand with
a Jerky counter in the back. Among these books was Action 453, Superman
292, The Flash 236 and the Fantastic Four 164.
More books quickly followed. Quickly a collection grew and before long
Jerry Kanowitz opened one of the first comic book shops, on Foster
Avenue and Rockaway Parkway, specializing in back issues. These were the
heady days of comic collecting and Jerry has FF#1, Avengers#1,
Showcase#4 etc on display all the time. He had relationships within the industry, and was a real insider. He had the largest collection of back
issues I had ever seen and we read everything in his bins. And he was a
very warm fellow, with love in heart. They don't make people like Jerry
any longer ....
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