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When I was young, I discovered a magical place — the public library.

One of the many revelations there was that comics were treated in a scholarly manner.  I could get a great big coffee-table book of old newspaper or comic book reprints.  It was heaven.

One of the scholars and enthusiasts responsible for these books was Bill Blackbeard, who passed away March 10.

What a great name — totally suitable for the kind of guy who fearlessly collects and preserves comics.  I was a big fan of Blackbeard.

If you’d like to find out more about this ultimate comic fan, The Comics Journal has a list of articles written about Blackbeard that you can digest.

We all know that comics is an art form, don’t we?  And a valuable piece of history.

WADE

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Every generation has its own slang. And that slang sounds pretty weird to somebody who is from another generation.

I love collecting slang terms from bygone days.  And so I’m sure the term “geevum” was in wide-spread use when The Geevum Girls ran in daily newspapers.

Thanks again to BarnaclePress for bringing us such amazing novelties that have been almost forgotten by comical history.

WADE

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