A Crowded Life in Comics – Li’l Ricky

by Rick Marschall









A Stir Is Born



★



“The
child is father to the man,” and all that.



I
recently unearthed a clipping from the Bergen Record, August of 1962. It
was, and still is, the major daily newspaper of north Jersey, across the George
Washington Bridge from New York City.



At
age 13 I was already a comics fanatic, amateur historian, and collector. For
some reason I