Badger's Bio
I started reading comics around 1973 with Amazing Spider-Man and Uncle Scrooge. My mother would scold me when I left my comics out. She wanted me to stack them neatly in my toy chest and protect their condition!
Through the years, I kept with Amazing Spider-Man and dropped Uncle Scrooge; yet my love of comics continued and expanded. I found Daredevil when Frank Miller took over and boy did that open my eyes to the possibilities of graphical stories. Chris Claremont's X-men stories cemented my love of the medium and I have collected seriously ever since.
Its funny in a way. I said I dropped Uncle Scrooge comics but really I dropped the so so stories of the 70s. When I read about Another Rainbow producing fine art prints of Carl Barks paintings I realized that what I really loved about Uncle Scrooge was Carl Barks' art and stories. I started buying every Duck book put out by Gladstone and I have kept every single one I bought, even moving them across country three times.
My collection is now almost 7000 books. I have read every single one of them. I hope to read far more than another 7000 in the future.