After Sunday school, after Sunday dinner, the various households of our family would visit with each other. That would be five families who lived close enough together to make regular visits easy.
This essay was going to be a Memory Lane for the Sunday color comics. The families got different Sunday papers, so my childhood appetite for comics had much to feed on.
Mandrake the Magician. Flash Gordon. Prince Valiant. (Yeah, I liked the series best.) And my favorite, Kevin the Bold. Anybody out there remember him? Globe-trotting Irish adventurer in the days of Henry VIII. When Kevin wound up in Japan, that blew me away. He also made it to the Roanoke Colony and the Philippines.
*Sigh* Where is everybody? Either died or moved far, far away. No more Sunday get-togethers: nobody left to get together with. Kevin the Bold himself never made it past 1968.
We keep on trucking, fueled only by God’s promises. And by sweet memories.
My young days were very similar to yours, sounds like. I love the Sunday funnies, too and the visits and good shared meals.
I remember similar meals with the extended family on Sundays. Family, and sometimes friends, coming over for a meal and the adults usually played cards into the evening. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has great comics, so even though we were over an hour’s drive from Minneapolis, we always bought their Sunday edition. I miss those days.
The Sunday comics were the best – they were in color!
Which was your favorite?