Tyrades! Are these the good old days for reminiscing?

“Memories/Light the corners of my mind…” – as sung by Barbra Streisand.

While grocery shopping with my mother in the 1970s, I enjoyed peeking at the “Golden Age” Sunday comics in “Good Old Days” magazine and developing an appreciation of the cartoon antics my father remembered from his boyhood.

In the early 1980s, as part of a school magazine fundraiser, my (then-future) wife wheedled her grandfather into purchasing a much-enjoyed subscription to “Reminisce.”

I am overjoyed that these two magazines are still around to remind a powder keg of a nation about simpler times. Simpler times when the...