Originally published July 28, 2000, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1393
I’ve written before about the fundamental lack of knowledge of, and interest in, the history of our little hobby. At the time that I was a young fan first discovering comics, and eagerly seeking out everything I could get my hands on, there were a number of tomes to be had. There were such works as The Great Comic Book Heroes by Jules Feiffer or Jim Steranko’s History of Comics and the essay collection All in Color for a Dime edited by Ðìçk Lupoff and Don Thompson.
But there is more than just the written history that presently exists. There is the living history of the comic and science fiction greats. And as anyone who has been keeping up with CBG, or with the industry, knows, we’ve been losing them. One by one, they’re gone, and if they didn’t write down their experiences in the forging of the industry or genre that we all love, then that’s it. It’s vapor mist. All those experiences, all that information, lost to us.
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