Any COMIC BOOK fans?

[Jughead P. Jones]

All right...prepare to hand over the 2007 Golden Pocket Protector award to yours truly here.

I am an avid collector of comic books, but not so much the super hero type books.

I read and collect Archie comics. (As if you couldn't guess already from the screenname, right?)

But, a lot of you probably don't know that Archie comics were instrumental in my being able to read circles around the other first graders in my class, and saved me from living life as an illiterate. While it was fun to see Archie and Reggie fighting over Veronica, I also increased my word power (Take THAT, Reader's Digest), and had a lot of laughs along the way.

Although, since I started reading them back in March of '87, I've amassed a ton of comics...My current count is well over 1,600 books.

Now, where's my Golden Pocket Protector Award? I have to thank Dilton Doiley, Bill Gates and the cast of Beauty and the Geek!