Night Owl Cards

You may have heard that today is Free Comic Book Day. I'm pretty sure that there's a place around here where I could get my free comic book, but I'm not interested. My interest in comic books died somewhere in mid-adolescence. If I had to pinpoint a peak year for comic book reading, it probably would be 1980, only because that is the year I remember spending a summer weekend at my grandparents and feverishly scanning every comic book that sat in my uncle's piano lesson waiting room. The appeal of comic books then was the art and the story line. I didn't care that they were superheroes. I didn't care about the out-of-this-world fantasy. I just liked the drawings and the story. You could create a comic book about the check-out clerk in the grocery store and if the art is good and the story is good, well that's good enough for me. Throw me an Archies comic and I was happy. But anyway, I think this is fertile ground for baseball cards. Outside of the ...