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This is my fourth Father's Day without Dad. I'm still not really adjusted to it, and doubt that I ever will be. Dad was always inc...

A few distributor terms and the meanings I have come to recognize after more than three decades of retailing: Net price : This is distribu...

Everyone has childhood friends, but by the time I was in the 7th grade, my circle of friends began to change. I had my school friends--those...

Here's a clue for the masterful meteorologists who write the warnings for the National Weather Service: you might want to use towns that...

Think you know Batman's origins? Here, from the back of a Chinese toy, is the truth. (Thanks to Janice Gelb for sharing this!)

1965 was a year in which I learned that not all comic book writers and artists were created equal—at least, not in talent. Prior to this y...

The first fanzine I ever read was Rocket's Blast Comicollector . I'm fairly sure that I first discovered it through a small ad in Ma...

I've known for all of my life that I was related to author (and Charlie Chan creator) Earl Derr Biggers, but I was in my thirties before...

It's no secret that I am an avid fan of 1960s music; it's the music of my childhood, the music of my adolescence, the music I grew u...

This evening, I watched the final episodes of That 70s Show , after beginning the series almost two months ago. (I only watch episodes of ol...