Mr Toast's USA Tour - Michigan

Welcome to Detroit.

That means Michigan.

Joe Louis Arena means Hockey!

Ren Cen.

The Hard Rock is always hopping.

The classic Fox Theatre.

Comerica Field is where the Tigers play.

Watch out for the claws.

But where is the team.....

No sign of the Detroit Lions today either....

Maybe we should head to Greektown....

Or just enjoy the full moon.

There is work to be done.

Mr Toast in hanging around.

There is printing to be done.

Take a letter.

This is how Mr Toast gets that perfect brown tone.

GANESH!

In the mouth of the Dragon.

Last night in Michigan.

Mr Toast has a new friend.

Well we will sign off here from Michigan. Thanks Debbie.

Mobius Donut

The Inhumans

Short

Menu Day

Cereal Bits dot Com

My good friend Dallas, has been running the cerealbits.com forum for over a year. If you want to spend chatting about cereal old and new this is the place.

Kat-Knip

Kite Flyin

Giants Beat Dallas

Junk Food Journal

Resolutions

My First Comic

It may not look like much but this is the first comic I ever owned. I remember seeing a Dr Strange comic one time when I was with some kids over by the OC Fair but this was the first one that was mine. I don't think I bought it, more likely someone gave it to me. If it still had its cover, you would know that it was Where Creatures Roam #7 from July 1971.

The lead story is a Jack Kirby classic monster story The Glop. It runs 12 pages but in my copy only pages 6-10 remain. The book has 2 other stories, one of which is a great little Steve Ditko story. These great early 70's Marvel Monster comics were all reprints of earlier Atlas comics. These stories came from Journey into Mystery #72, September 1961.



In the JIM version the Glop was known as the Glob and was less yellow and more orange and brown. Also a comic was 5 cents cheaper in 1961.

I can't say how many times I read this comic but it had a profound influence on me. I think it fostered my love of oddball sci-fi films and kooky monsters. I was also lucky in that I was able to track down a piece of the original Jack Kirby art for the story.



It is a pretty humbling thing to own a piece of art that produced the first comic I ever owned. Thanks Jack for inspiring a 6 year old kid to grow up and produce his own comics.