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Boris loves his ’50s comic books
By Boris Vallejo – I grew up in Lima, Peru, in the Roaring ’50s. At that time, in that country, the idea of television was almost science fiction. What did people do when they came back from work, you ask? What the heck did kids do when they returned home from school, you ponder? Well, people read. Kids read. I read. Books were my friends. All kinds of books. The classics, adventure, mystery, children’s books. And then there were comic books. I clearly remember my first contact with comic books. I had been in bed for a couple of days with the flu. My father came back from work with…