Comic Books
Subscribe to this tagA Superhero Returns
Once upon a time, boys played with toys they didn’t have to plug in, turn on, or reboot.
“Captain Action was my very favorite toy,” recalls 50-something Ridgewood resident Ed Catto. “I vividly remember opening it up one Christmas, and having him fight GI Joe. We got all the neighborhood kids to play. We used to build an entire city in the yard.”
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Supershow!
Kids used to sneak comic books under the covers to read by flashlight. Now those twelve-cent sagas are valuable art spotlighted in exhibits at the Montclair Art Museum.
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