FIRST STAR ON THE RIGHT

 

I remember the Charles Atlas ads at the back of comics......the ones where the virile atheletic types kick sand in the face of some kid that looked like me!
There was Tarzan, Flash Gordon, comic book super-heros by the dozens, Ramar of the Jungle.......the list is long........and there was skinny little me, weighing in at 90 pounds, in 5th grade......so....i fantasized about looking at least like Bomba, the Jungle Boy, if not the perfect speciman that you see above.......Now, of course, it really doesn't matter much at all.....even my friend, Phil, who DID look like this......now...looks like me......it is much more disconcerting to him to have fallen to ordinaryness than for me have just slipped into something relatively comfortable.......