Comments on: My first job http://swandive.org/2008/03/my-first-job/ "An imaginative line in classic pop." - MOJO Fri, 04 May 2012 23:27:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Jesse http://swandive.org/2008/03/my-first-job/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Jesse Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:04:00 +0000 http://swandive.org/wp/?p=54#comment-27 This story takes me back to my days as a 9-year-old comic book collector perusing the 10-for-$1 boxes at Comics & Curios. I remember buying an issue of "Marvel Team-Up" with Spider-Man and Nighthawk, #101 I believe. In the back, the letters page was devoted to a list running down the first 100 issues—who had co-starred with Spidey in them, as well as the villain they faced off against. This was a pretty kick-ass primer to the Marvel Universe. And since Spidey and the Scarlet Witch once squared off against Cotton Mather, it was somewhat educational as well (I had to look that guy up).<br/>I never worked there, and the shop's now long gone, but there's something about being a youth and that feeling of discovery as you're sorting through old, musty, mysterious boxes. This story takes me back to my days as a 9-year-old comic book collector perusing the 10-for-$1 boxes at Comics & Curios. I remember buying an issue of “Marvel Team-Up” with Spider-Man and Nighthawk, #101 I believe. In the back, the letters page was devoted to a list running down the first 100 issues—who had co-starred with Spidey in them, as well as the villain they faced off against. This was a pretty kick-ass primer to the Marvel Universe. And since Spidey and the Scarlet Witch once squared off against Cotton Mather, it was somewhat educational as well (I had to look that guy up).
I never worked there, and the shop’s now long gone, but there’s something about being a youth and that feeling of discovery as you’re sorting through old, musty, mysterious boxes.

]]> By: Anonymous http://swandive.org/2008/03/my-first-job/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Anonymous Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:05:00 +0000 http://swandive.org/wp/?p=54#comment-26 Sounds like a great start to a very cool short story. Sounds like a great start to a very cool short story.

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