“Reading – Saved by Super Heroes”
Hi all,
Here is the second episode of the “Hi All Podcast” as I talked about how comic books helped with my struggles to read. Watch it here and come bag and read the blog. Thank you.
Tag: All-Star Comics
Hi All,
Of all the super heroes I have read about, my favorite is the Golden Age Green Lantern Alan Scott.
And, of course, he was one of the 100 super heroes that appeared in the DC Blue Ribbon Digest comic that started my love of super heroes from the very beginning. Alan Ladd Scott (the middle name actually referencing actor Alan Ladd) first appeared in All-American Comics #16 and then became a founding member of the Justice Society of America in All-Star Comics #3.
When I was young, during my Elementary School and Junior High years, I was struggling with reading. It was recommended to my parents that I should take further classes and have special tutors. One such tutor was in an after-school period on campus, while another one was off campus at a place called “The Reading Game.” These tutors helped me, but there was other help that I received that would improve my education.
It was during this period of time I first discovered comic books, as mentioned in my previous post, and I was regularly reading them… and I was reading them not just looking at the artwork (and I’ll tell you about the artwork and artists in a later post).
One day when my parents are having a ‘parent/teacher’ meeting with my special reading tutor to talk about how I was doing. They brought up the fact that I was reading comics, and asked if this was a good thing or should they take the comics away to have me read “real” books.