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Title: The Comic Books
Author: Roger Sutro ... rsutro@cox.net
  "Roger, I have an idea I'd like to run by you", said Louis one day, as we were walking together in Canada during a summer visit there - I was in 5th grade, and not really connecting to the homework or getting into school much. You could say that I majored in daydreaming.

Louis: "You like reading comic books, don't you?"
Roger: "yup"
Louis: "Well, I'd like you to read three books as part of getting into reading this summer, and if you do, I'll buy you three comic books as part of the bargain"
Roger: "Hmmm, Ok, Deal"
I think this might have been when I started reading science fiction - Ruth brought me to a library, (near or in Cummington, Mass), later that summer, and I discovered an Isaac Asimov book there about a dramatic nuclear power plant crisis.
Louis's deal worked out, and I got into reading.
-- And I got three comic books: Batman, Superman and a Justice League of America.