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by Kyle Foster I
, , y I       "It was a hole in the wall, and I
I "   I said ifI didn’t make it through the
  ‘/.i   .,,_ : I first month, I wouldn’t keep doing
  I   g I it," said the UK telecommunications
l _`y_ I     _V__ I     student, who expects to graduate in
I g     ;*¤"I I r J   May 1993.
y k _ I     I But Moore made it and soon
I e I * r` ’     I opened another store in his home-
I   I     I town, Portsmouth, Ohio, and he
Y "    gf ·»‘I , worked there after school. Moore’s
1 ,   father, who has a doctorate in educa-
I     tion, worked for his son at the Iron-
1   I I ton store location.
    1 His parents helped him, their only
  I child, supporting his hobby financial-
  I l when the realized Moore had a
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  { real interest in the subject.
»   An old Ca tain Marvel, with el-
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    i lowed pages, was the first comic book
I Y  I in Moore’s collection, a ift from his
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I A   y mother, who put the comic book
   ‘III I , aside for him after finding it on one
I of her attic searching expeditions.
etween the comic book pages   "My mom has always been interest-
Student emrepre- of Swamp Thing and Hellblazen ed in antiques, and she would always
"?“;'c':"" M:’°'§ , a 14—year-old boy found adven- go to people’s attics and look around
"ghi; °::i;°¢:;ic ture, action, madness, mayhem and a for stuff. She found a comic one day
book ¢¤IIe¢•i¤n - he colle e education.   with old ellow a es,” he said.
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’°Y‘ he ’ k°P"h° Chuck Moore, 21, opened his first 1 She kept the comic book for her
best of them to use . b k . I Oh. . h h . ld b h
wwqrd his '_°m_e_ comic oo store 1n lronton, 1o, , son, in opes t at it wou e wort
ment.At fur right, when he was in the Cl hth rade b some mone . He said he will alwa s
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*‘°PP"‘°f’lE°": selling a box of comic books from his keep the first comic because it was a
¤Hd°n¤d;°iT: pag collection to pay for the first month’s milestone which opened a new
called Disney World. rent on the store. world for him.
10 Kentucky Alumnus Fall 1992