How I First Met Frank Frazetta

The summer of 1970 my old man was stationed, once again, in Furth, Germany, just outside of Nurnberg.  I was a fourteen-year-old pinball wizard, hoopster, casanova street-rat (yeah, that guy)  who prided himself on reading everything from Catcher in the Rye to Stranger in a Strange Land.  I was at the magazine shop of the local PX (post exchange) spinning the paperback rack when this cover, at eye level, blasted my brain.  The rest is Cap'n's Comics history