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Vern was a grown--up with a wide--eyed kid inside.(Brief Article)

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From: National Catholic Reporter
Date: 19990903
Author:HEFFERN, Rich

More and more in my life, I appreciate the blessing that Vern and other mentors like him were to me

My best high school friend and I were both Marvel tale fans. In that era before Star Wars and Star Trek, we couldn't get enough of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Besides creating Tarzan, Burroughs also penned first-rate marvel adventures.

His derring-do hero, John Carter, ventured to Mars, finding there a wonder-filled civilization crammed with evil meanies, haughty princesses and damsels to be rescued. With twin moons overhead, Carter dueled in the Chambers of Mystery, sailed the ...

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