©2020 Ken Quattro Aurora Plastics products comprised a major part of my childhood. I had an Aurora N-guage model trains set, and Aurora slot car set, and I built a ridiculous number of Aurora models during my youth. Model planes, model cars, model ships. When they came out with models based upon historic sporting events–Babe Ruth hitting his 60th…
©2020 Ken Quattro “Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! `I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?’” Lewis Carroll found a way of expressing the absurd lengths one goes once a journey is undertaken. It’s like he knew me. It began simply enough. I found a giveaway comic up for auction…
©2020 Ken Quattro In a previous post I discussed Gabriel Lynn’s 1944 booklet, THE CASE AGAINST THE COMICS published by the Catechetical Guild. As a public service, I am sharing scans of the entire contents of this rare and historical pamphlet. Right click on the smaller images and then click “View Image” to see them in larger size. The…
©2020 Ken Quattro Virtually every comic fan with even a cursory interest in the history of the medium, knows the name of Dr. Fredric Wertham, psychiatrist, author and comic book critic. Just the mention of his name is enough to evoke some slanderous remark, a dismissive eye roll, a curse. But he wasn’t the first to criticize comics. Not by…