It was about seven years ago when my son Dave said to me, “Hey Pops, you oughta start a podcast, everyone’s doing it.” I’m still at it over 50 episodes later. Now I’m putting each episode on Substack, starting with Episode #1,

Tell Me What You're Reading #1: Dr. Frank Burbrink on Comic Books

Dr. Frank Burbrink - molecular evolutionary biologist and curator of reptiles and amphibians at the American Museum of Natural History, a renowned scientist and explorer who travels the world with his team looking for new species of snakes.

Frank is also a student of the history of comic books with an extensive comic book collection.

While we will generally be talking about more conventional books on our podcast, this was a unique opportunity to get a perspective on comic books, which were, for many of us the very first books we read.