Not Only That, But When I First Met Joe, To My Intense Delight, He Showed Me That He Was A Collector. He Was Collecting Some Of The Early Tarzan Pages By Hal Foster, And, Later, Early Flash Gordons; And I Found That We Were Both Absolutely Interested In The Same Type Of Thing. - SearchQuotes

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Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

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