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<div dir="ltr"><div>Due to an editing error, the 2nd two paragraphs of Randy's essay were omitted from the initial posting:</div><div><br></div><div>
<p style="margin-left:80px;text-align:left">A little context might help. I was then a recovering student radical, having left <br>college for a while to argue for regime change in the streets, as it were. I learned,<br>for example, that biting an officer of the law will get his attention,<br>but that they don't taste good. Also I learned that six months in<br>jail is no fun. I was hired, fresh out of jail, by the Curious Book Shop<br>in East Lansing, in June 1971. Ray Walsh, the proprietor, had been a<br>fellow student worker in the Michigan State University Libraries a <br>few years before, and his science fiction specialty shop<br>looked like a good place to hide from the law. The store grew into a<br>real antiquarian book shop, and I became the comics guy, because that's <br>what the store needed. It was a kind of boot camp. For two years I<br>sorted, graded, priced, and sold comic books under the guidance of Walsh.<br>With Ray, I attended two Triple Fan-Fare conventions in Detroit and ran the <br>Curious tables. We were in on the beginnings of the network of stores that led<br>to the direct market for comics. It was a boom time for comics collecting, and<br>I started reading and collecting comic books myself.<br></p><p style="margin-left:80px;text-align:left"> This intense activity was a refuge from serious notions of smashing the<br>state, but I was still looking for ways to change the world. The evil empire of<br>comics-rejecting English departments seemed like a good place to start. I<br>decided to take the situation in hand, get out there and write important books<br>and, you know, do stuff. In those days that counted as a plan of action. One<br>of the shop's customers, Professor Russel Nye, had just published his<br>groundbreaking <i>The Unembarrassed Muse</i> (New York: Dial Press, 1970). He<br>was going to be my role model, and I started taking English classes. After a<br>couple of graduate courses in English, it turned out that that literary analysis<br>was not my metier, but my determination was not really quenched.</p>
</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 8:58 PM Mike Rhode <<a href="mailto:mrhode@gmail.com">mrhode@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
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