When I was a kid, I paid ten dollars to a mail-order comic company called Westfield Comics that advertised in comics (oddly, years later I ended up shopping at their store in Madison every Wednesday), and in return I got a box stuffed with a hundred old DC comics. That was in the mid-80s, so those old comics they sent me to clear out their warehouse had a few superhero books (Action and Adventure Comics, mostly), but also a ton of horror, western, and war comics. Of course I read them all, and my favorite character I discovered was J.A.K.E., the G.I. Robot. A robot fighting dinosaurs during World War II! How cool is that?
Seth Johnson, HeroClix World Interview (2009)