One guy at a con actually quoted my favorite Silver Age panel back to me

I was browsing dollar bins at a small show in Toledo, and this older dude pointed at my shirt and said, 'That's from Flash #123, right?' Nobody I know gets that specific. Has anyone else bonded with a stranger over an obscure issue?

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the_jason3d ago

Well, that's almost as rare as finding a Silver Age book in the dollar bin that's actually worth something. I guess there's still a few of us walking around who remember reading those issues off the newsstand instead of off a tablet. Sounds like you met a kindred spirit who's been storing that trivia in his head since the Johnson administration.

nathan5453d ago

Is it just me who thinks that guy probably also remembers what he paid for a gallon of gas in '72? I met a old timer at a con once who could tell you the exact cover price of every book he ever bought off the spinner rack, down to the penny. It's a totally different kind of memory, not just trivia, but like a mental ledger of his whole life in comics. Makes you wonder what useless stuff we'll be hoarding in our brains thirty years from now.