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Today's Guest: American Comic Book Chronicles editor Keith Dallas

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media® interview with Keith Dallas, editor, American Comic Book Chronicles, by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of fanboys who think they know it all about Charlton, Dell, Gold Key, ACG and Harvey comic books but won't until they actually read the complete set of the American Comic Book Chronicles… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

It's no secret that I'm a lifetime comic book fan.
I can trace my love of the form -- comics that is; women were a few years later -- back to the mid-1960s when my grandfather and I were on our way to catch a Suburban Bus back to New Brunswick, New Jersey, from the Port Authority in Manhattan and we stopped at a newsstand. He wanted a New York Daily News and he pointed me toward the comic book section so I could read something on the ride home, too.

My eyes went right to the latest issue of The X-Men. I knew nothing about them -- yet -- but they looked so cool. And I remember that moment of discovery like no other.

There were other opportunities to read piles of comics in the years that followed; my cousin Fred Sirotkin lived in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and his entire basement was given over to his alphabetized collection of what I recall to be mostly Archies.
KEITH DALLAS podcast excerpt: "Think about the more recent uproar when DC and Marvel raised comic book prices from $2.99 to $3.99. It was essentially the same thing in the 1960s to go from a dime to 12 cents." 
You can LISTEN to this interview with KEITH DALLAS, editor of THE AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES, by clicking the audio player above!

And my older male cousins on my father's side, Mark and Scott Shoham, always had a stack of Marvel and DC superheroes in the basement of their Bloomfield, Connecticut, house to divert me from their more matur

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