[unclerobin@att.net]

Hello, my name is Robin Olsen aka Uncle Robin. I have been reading comics since about 1958 or 1959 (looking at the pictures before I could actually read) and I started collecting in 1963 with Avengers #1. My oldest brother read comics and he passed down his love of them to me. When me and my twin brother and little brother were VERY young our older brother told us a very scary story about rats taking over the world. It was many years before I realized the story was actually AIRBOY VS. THE RATS and more years before I finally got to read the real deal here at Comic Book Plus. He also brought home the Ballatine Paperback of TALES FROM THE CRYPT, not long after which I bought a Three for fifteen cent bag of comics, the ones with half covers. There was one book that had no cover at all, and it was SO WEIRD and pretty scary compared to the stuff I was seeing on the stands. I later discovered (as the comic I bought had no indica) that it was a reprint of a comic put out by SUPERIOR publications, I think it was IW SUPER COMICS, or something like that. I found a copy of the original comic years later and foolishly lent it to someone who never returned it. Well, I was happy to see that Comic Book Plus has a nice run of SUPERIOR COMICS, too, including "the one that got away". I read about Golden Age Comics in various fanzines for years, never dreaming I'd find a place to see all the classic stories that I could only read ABOUT until I discovered Comic Book Plus. So now I'm catching up on a ton of books from before my time and am enjoying it to the maximum! I still love my Silver Age books (the few I have, as my mother was one of those proverbial "comic book burners") and all the way up to today's comics (well, some, anyway. too many changes, too often). If anyone wants to talk comics, I'm at unclerobin@att.net. I'm usually home, so I'll try to get back to you ASAP. Later!

[narfstar]

Welcome Robin. Glad to hear your history and happy to provide the site for your enjoyment. If you want to talk comics you can talk to the crowd here. Just join a topic or start your own. There is a pull list forum for discussion of what you currently get. We are also happy to have recommendations from current or past comics. If you have any SA Charlton or IW comics that are not scanned let us know. If they are pd we can find someone to scan them for you. welcome Jim

[paw broon]

Welcome to CB+, Robin.  Your intro. was a good read.  How many of us had maws who chucked out our comics?  Me, for one.  Let's have your recommendations, or otherwise, as we're always interested in what other folk are reading, or watching, or listening to.

[unclerobin@att.net]

Thanks for the welcome, narfstar and paw broon, it's great to connect with other fans again, it's been many, many years since the days when I would pull a wagonload of comics (trade bait) looking for other kids to trade with, just hoping someone would see me and say, "Sure, I've got comics I can trade!" This actually worked at times, and at other times I would meet people who were also collectors or just plain readers, and we'd meet up and trade comics. I was networking before the term was coined! I also was big on constantly being on the lookout for pop bottles, at two cents apiece I could get a twelve cent comic for a six pack at the Convenient Food Mart down the street. I could carry four at a time, and when they came up with eight packs I made out like a bandit - five comics and four penny candies! Those were the days -

[unclerobin@att.net]

Just wanted you all to know, I FOUND the coverless comic here that started me liking SUPERIOR comics, "The One That Got Away" - it was STRANGE MYSTERIES #13! Thank you Comic Books Plus for ending my VERY long search!