My Back Pages, by Thomas Aylesworth

I'm taking a break from reviewing back issues to review the best new comic collecting supply since the invention of Mylar. I recently purchased a set of DrawerBoxes from the Collection Drawer Company and I couldn't be happier.

I first ran across these in comic book ads last year and was intrigued by the idea. Even with a modest collection of around 2,500 comics, it's a real pain to move boxes around in order to find a particular issue. And refiling a set of comics I've taken out to read over a month or so can be a project for an entire Sunday afternoon. In fact, until I got the DrawerBoxes, I still hadn't put back my runs of DC Explosion era Superman, Action Comics, and Superman Family that I had pulled out for my articles last November.

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My Back Pages, by Thomas Aylesworth

As I discussed in the last issue, Superman went through some major changes in the early 1970s. Editor Julius Schwartz took away the gimmicks and campiness that had plagued Superman stories for the previous twenty years. He also brought his personal life back into the play and made Clark Kent a real person with real problems people could relate to. This week, I'm going to look at the best issues of Action Comics during the DC Implosion years of 1978 and 1979.

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My Back Pages, by Thomas Aylesworth

Welcome to My Back Pages. In this column, I'm going to take a look back at DC comics of the 1960s through early 1980s. My goal is to provide some nostalgia for us geezers long-time comic readers; expose newer readers to classic stories; and give collectors both young and old some ideas for comics they may want to look for in the back issue bins on eBay.

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