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I’ve always loved comics. The first book I can remember reading was , and I devoured any comic I could get my hands on, from American superheroes to and Hergé’s . My most prized possessions were a paperback collecting the early Stan Lee and Steve Ditko stories, and a massive hardback, . European or American, these comics were upbeat, and the heroes always won. There was, in short, nothing in them to prepare me for .