Remember the magazine rack at the drugstore? I liked to look at the
comic books and occasionally buy one for 10 cents. Donald Duck, Bugs
Bunny & Elmer Fudd, Superman, Batman, Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers,
and other classics I don't much remember now.
Time marched on and then I remember buying Mad Magazine with Alfred
E. Newman (What, Me Worry?), Cracked Magazine and countless other
imitations of Mad Magazine. I think they cost a quarter back then.
I don't think you were allowed to spend much time looking at the
comic books if you weren't buying them. Remember: this is not a
library.
I still have some of those old comic books squirreled away somewhere
around my house.
Anyone else recall Scott's drugstore magazine selections? I guess
they probably also had Life, Look, Collier's, Saturday Evening Post,
along with other mundane selections.
However, in my mind, comic books ruled. Now the comics in the paper
are pretty much worthless. Not much to look at now in the Sunday
comics. I'm not sure if the rugrats these days even know what comics
are. They probably don't even know what a newspaper is.
Progress, I guess.
The Weaselmeister
