Seven books Erin used to steal/take/borrow from John’s room when I was young.

ERIN HANLON, Brooklyn NY

(Note to John: Sorry! Thank you for not killing me. )

1. Love and Rockets
2. Swamp Thing (Lost interest when Swamp Thing “died” and traveled to different planets.)
3. National Lampoon
4. Watchmen
5. Wonder Woman
6. Heavy Metal
7. Some book about cult movies that I can’t remember the name of. So, I’ll just call it, “That Cult Movies Book.”

7 Favorite Christmas Comics

POPS GUSTAV, Jersey City NJ

1) Archie Comics Digest #3 (1973) Perfect collection of mostly 60s stories
2) DC Limited Collectors Edition C-34: Christmas with the Super Heroes (1974)
3) Marvel Treasury Special: Giant Superhero Holiday Grab-Bag (1974)
4) The Christmas Spirit (collection of 1940s-50s xmas tales)
5) DC Super-Star Holiday Special (1980)
6) Dennis the Menace Christmas Special (1973)
7) The Batman Adventures Holiday Special (1995)

For the rest of the covers, see here.

Let's Get Together...Yeah Yeah Yeah!

7 Great Movies About The Private Worlds Of Female Friends
JOHN HANLON, Brooklyn NY

1. Celine and Julie Go Boating


2. Daises


3. Ghost World


4. Heavenly Creatures


5. Mulholland Drive


6. The Parent Trap


7. The World of Henry Orient

Bob's Seven Favorite Single-Panel Gag Cartoonists

BOB FINGERMAN, New York NY
Best not only for the jokes, but for their cartooning, staging of the gag and overall timelessness.

1) Charles Rodrigues
2) S. Gross
3) Gahan Wilson
4) Chas. Addams
5) B. Kliban
6) Joe Dator
7) Eldon Dedini

Bonus who doesn’t quite fit: Erich Sokol, if only because he was the most artistically virtuosic gag cartoonist ever. Best watercolorist of the 20th Century. Seriously. But he didn’t usually (maybe ever, actually) write his own gags. And they weren’t especially funny, often. But oh mama, they were gorgeous.

And no disrespect intended to Lee Lorenz, Phil Interlandi, George Booth, Leo Cullum, Tom Cheney, Charles Saxon and scores of other top-flight cartoonifiers. I loves ‘em all.

7 Iconic Books from My Childhood

POPS GUSTAV, Jersey City NJ

1. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss (the first book I read by myself)
2. COMIX: A History of Comic Books in America by Les Daniels
3. The Great Comic Book Heroes by Jules Feiffer
4. Horrors from Screen to Scream by Ed Naha
5. Superman From the 30s to the 70s edited by E. Nelson Bridwell
6. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
7. Still More Two Minute Mysteries by Donald J. Sobol (was there anything better than the Scholastic Book Club?)