Lonely Oregon boy grew up to be a comics legend (Part 1 of 2)

Offbeat Oregon History podcast by www.offbeatoregon.com

Sep 17, 202600:11:59Education

SOMETIME IN APRIL of 1960, a shy, retiring, hard-of-hearing comic-book artist named Carl Barks got a letter at his quiet suburban home. When he opened it, he found that it was a letter from a stranger named John Spicer....

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