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Does anyone have a story how a comic book had a significant impact on your life?

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Yoc:
Thanks for sharing guys.  This has turned into a fun topic!

Calamity Jon:
Not me specifically but: My pop came over from Germany when he was a kid, in 1952, not speaking, reading or writing a snip of English. He would've landed in the same fashion, but someone on the crew fed him a steady diet of American comic books. We have a photo of him at a table during the travel, intently reading a copy of Detective Comics. When he landed, he kept reading 'em, and then collecting 'em, and he was half the reason I got to grow up in a house of weird old Golden Age comics!

Yoc:
Great story Jon!
:)

bminor:
Did it help him to read and speak English more quickly?
B.

Calamity Jon:

--- Quote from: bminor on February 27, 2019, 10:45:15 AM ---Did it help him to read and speak English more quickly?
B.

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Ultimately, yeah. He ended up in deep rural Georgia with his step-family, where there weren't any ESL programs to take advantage of. And while his mother was fluent in heavily-accented English, she wasn't available to him. So it was comics, radio, movies and TV -- I'm informed that he lost his German accent completely by the Fifth Grade. My mother didn't even know he was from Germany until he introduced her to his mother!  ^-^

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