Fifteen years of the PorPor Books Blog

Fifteen Years of 'The PorPor Books Blog'

When I started this blog fifteen years ago I wasn't anticipating it would be so much fun that I'd do it for fifteen years, but somehow that has turned out to be the case. 

Back when I started things were a little different when it came to acquiring media with nostalgia value. 

You could go on eBay and buy a box of old DAW books for $30, plus $10 shipping. Or you could find a collection of National Lampoon magazines from the 1970s, for $25 plus shipping. At amazon, you could get a copy of Pierce Nace's schlock masterpiece, 'Eat Them Alive', for five bucks. You could get an original mass market paperback edition of Stephen King's 'The Stand' for under $10. You could go to the comic book store, and in a cardboard box out in front of the store, find a heap of old Marvel Vampire Tales black and white magazines from the 1970s on sale for a couple of bucks each. And inside, they'd have some back issues of Heavy Metal magazine on sale for three dollars each. Stuff that the fanboys, coming in for their pulls of 25 issues of X-Men comics, ignored. But nowadays, you're going to pay a little bit more for such things (if you can find them).

I thank all my readers who continue to visit the site ! While Google Analytics 4 is not a very user-friendly application, it says my Page Views for the past month numbered 6,652, or about 220 page views per day. So there are people who find the blog worth visiting.

It's enough of an inducement to continue the blog for another five years. Fingers crossed !