I love collecting comic books.  My rarest one is from Japan in the 1700's.
I don't know much about comics. What is your favorite?
I like anything by Arthur Adams the most.  He is a great artist.  I collect The Uncanny X-Men that he did the art for.
How long has comics been around?
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Although some origins in 18th century Japan, comic books were first popularized in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1930s. The first modern comic book, "Famous Funnies", was released
, when he bought Marvel Comics' "Micronauts" #1, which was illustrated by Michael Golden, the first artist Adams noticed significantly. He relates:
I was collecting comic books from the mid-70s, and then I discovered Michael Golden working on "Micronauts". And I don't know exactly what it is about the very first issue of "Micronauts". Something about it just blew me away. That was the book that made me say, 'Yeah, this is what I'm going to do for