This was powerful stuff for a young person and these readings helped fuel my interest in pursuing other outside and more formal research into these areas. There was a certain attraction to real-life people that intrigued me as well. For example, superheroes such as Superman, the Metal Men, the X-Men and the Flash were fine, of course, but I was drawn to heroes who were "super" without any special "superpowers" because of their other personal attributes such as Batman and especially the Green Arrow. In fact, I recall securing my first archery set and practicing relentlessly in the hopes that I too could be as good as the Green Arrow someday, and although this would never happen, I did become a proficient archer in the process.
Throughout my childhood and well into early adolescence, I continued to spend an inordinate amount of my allowance on comic books and expanded my interests to other characters and art styles, such as Will Eisner's use of innovative vantage points such as top-down views to illustrate his famous "The Spirit" series, but I always found myself drawn back to Donald Duck, his nephews, Uncle Scrooge and the eccentric inventor, Gyro Gearloose, whose zany inventions always seem to go awry.
Although I eventually lost most of my interest in comic books upon reaching late adolescence because of other more pressing interests, of late I have found myself returning to my comic book collection and rereading some of my old favorites from the prolific...
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