Comic Books Acquired On Vacations: A Cover Gallery

I was thinking about records that I acquired on various vacations over the years. That process led me to also think about comic books I added to my collection while away from home. So I figured I would assemble a gallery of a few of those vacation comic book covers.

Most of these books were accumulated on summer visits to Missouri, though there were some I snagged in Kansas, California, Vermont, Florida, Ohio, at bus stations betwixt and between, and at locations within the great state of New York, but away from my native Syracuse area. Oh! And also a funnybook or two purchased on a rare winter trip to Missouri. I may go back and write about some of these in future blog posts. For today, let each picture serve as a thousand words. Vacation! All I ever wanted.

This is just a mere sample of my vacation comics reading in the '60s and '70s. More 80-Page Giants! More Marvel Super-Heroes! More JLA/JSA meetings! And that's not even counting the issue of CARtoons I clutched through the course of a drive through ten states in 1968, nor the issue of E-Man I snagged at a pit stop in Arkansas in 1975, nor the comic books my parents bought for me back home for my subsequent road-trip enjoyment. And it doesn't count this unexpected delight I spied while catching lunch at an establishment in Madrid in 2012:

See, I didn't count that one because, y'know, it doesn't count. I didn't buy it during my Spanish vacation; I'd already bought a copy back home in the States.

Good thing, too. That sucker woulda been way too heavy to haul on a Trans-Atlantic flight. Up, up and AWAY!

For a more detailed account of my initial immersion into the pop world of comic books and rock 'n' roll music as a kid, see my 1960s memoir Singers, Superheroes, And Songs On The Radio: My Life In Pop Culture, The 1960s.

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