If I had to pinpoint what fueled my childhood addiction to comics and cartoons, much of the credit would go to the ready supply of comic books available from the local used book store run by a portly old guy named Victor. Half a century ago, the empty store in the photo above was, for me, comic book heaven. Victor,
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