Randy Scott was born in Alpena, Michigan in 1947, grew up on a farm in Hubbard Lake, and went to Michigan State University on a scholarship. He completed his Bachelors at MSU in 1972 and a masters (Library Service) from Columbia University in 1977. Scott started working at the Curious Book Shop in 1971, where he learned lots about comic books. He started working at the MSU Library in 1973 as a cataloger. Beginning with comics donated by Russel Nye, Scott created the largest and best-sorted comic book collection assembled to date anywhere. He retired from MSU in 2022. Topics/People Covered in Interview include: early life, education, farming, 4-H, Gordon Sabine, campus life, Paul Schiff, Mike Kindman, 'The Paper', John Appel, Robert Fogarty, Orange Horse Three, Gary Snyder, Maury Crane, Industrial Workers of the World, Students for Democratic Society, Bernadette Dohrn, antiwar activism, anti-racism activism, Days of Rage (Chicago), Curious Book Shop, Ray Walsh, Russel Nye, comic books, Rixchaerd Chapin, Jannette Fiore, Anne Tracy, Hiram Davis, Sanford Berman, Beth Shapiro, radicalism colleciton, popular culture, Steve Rachman, Sunday School books, computers, Lynn Scott, Crisis in America (CIA), music, Don Depoorter, Paul Somers.
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