Comic Reader Résumé #15: Summer Job (July - 1985)

ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and  professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an  applicant for a job. In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis  point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a  “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively)  new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the  medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive  accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least  remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we  call back issues: books bought long after their publication date.  Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked  up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide  berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll  get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby”  spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life  (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part  personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally  self-indulgent on my part. This episode includes All-Star Squadron #50, Bananas #31 & 69, Blue Devil #17, Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, DC Comics Presents Annual #4, Dreadstar and Company #5, Elfquest #3,  The Encyclopedia of Superheroes, Longshot #2-3, Mad Magazine #264 & 270, Marvel Age #8, 16, 22, & 27, Secret Wars II #5, Nathaniel Dusk II #1, The All New, All Daring Peter Parker, the Spectacular  #107, The World Encyclopedia of Comics, and more! “Transcripts” #0: Application (1967-1981) July, 1985 Twitter #CRRésumé? Facebook [email protected] Comment on Résumé page or Rolled Spine Podcasts. Back to the Future, Blue Devil, Cracked, Crisis on Infinite Earths,  Lifeforce, Longshot, Mad, Marvel Age, Matt Houston, Scholastic, Secret  Wars, Spider-Man, Squadron Supreme, Star Comics, Supergirl, Superman, V,  Comic Reader Résumé