Dude, I love tales of feral summer kids in the 70s. I was 6 when Return of the Jedi came out, saw it in the theater and then was a VHS kid watching those movies over and over until the tape wore out. It’s no shock that your childhood summers were spent cycling in and out of the movie theater, reading comic books, and trading cards. Clearly that was an effective incubator of creativity developing your mind into something that HAD to make comics of your own.