I think comic books are cool, Ebbie. I loved them back then, and I still have a fondness for that medium. Why would they be seen as a bugaboo? Were parents upset about the horror comics or something? Comics were a big part of my parents' lives as children, and my own life in the 50s and 60s.

There was some advertising on certain pages of the comics, and it was always for weird stuff that you could send away for...most of which was absolute junk. ;-) But you could get a live chameleon sent to you in the mail all the way from Florida! I ordered a couple of those, and they arrived just fine in a little tiny package with air holes. I had them living at our place for the next 7 years about...in a cage with wire sides. They were lively little things, and they at a lot of flies, so I became an expert at catching live food for them.

Ah! The wonders of childhood.