Detective 567 (Cover)
Originally uploaded by grabbingsand.
… give or take a month. I bought this comic either at an Eckerd Drugs next to the Hills Department Store on Battlefield Parkway … or at the Red Food Store closer to Highway 27. One of the two. Both are long closed or replaced by now. Drugstores barely carry drugs now, much less comicbooks.
I’m impressed that I kept it for so long. I’m impressed even more that it is in such decent shape. It’s nowhere near mint condition, but it hasn’t been torn or ruined in some other way. I’ve kept it for so long for the same reason I’ve held on to other books and magazines. The issue — an off-beat, almost quaint one-shot of a tale by a respected, but sometimes ornery sci-fi writer — had quite an effect on me. To this day, I think it is my favorite Batman story …
A least my favorite one that can be read in under five minutes.
