I learned how to read by reading comic books. I had boxes and boxes of comic books and I would take them to school and trade the ones I had read to others for ones I hadn’t read. I majored in the adventure heroes like Superman, Batman and Robin, Flash, Aquaman, and Spiderman. I was pretty much done with comic book reading when I got to the 6th grade. Up until then, my Dad was in the Navy and we followed his ship up and down the west coast. We had a Plymouth station wagon with three full bench seats in it, and the back one was one of those that faced backward. Everybody in our family got motion sickness riding in the back seat except for me so that was my seat, and I would spend hours riding in that seat, facing backward reading comic books. One of the things about comic books written and published in the 50s was that the superheroes were good guys who did what was right and the storyline always had a moral lesson for life in it. I was a fast reader even when I was just starting in school and I read a lot, I was always reading and needed to trade a lot in order to have new stories. Because of the physical conditioning I received from riding backward in our station wagon and reading while traveling I never get motion sick today. I can go out in the absolute worst storms in a small boat and not get even a little bit seasick. Once we went to a Theme park with lots of super big and fast roller coasters. We had about 8 junior high boys with us and I challenged them to a roller coaster “ride off”. We would keep riding until only one was left. I won that contest easily and had a new reputation when it was over.