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Steve B. Bala, Comic Reviews

  
 

Steve B. Bala
born Dec. 24th, 1975
New York City, NY

I was raised in the East Village of New York City. My parents were the children of Eastern European immigrants. Which makes me 2nd generation American. For the most part my background is Ukrainian/Russian with some Polish and Russian Jew thrown into the mix. I went to Catholic school for 12 years, and boy was it fun! I went to college in upstate, at NY State university at Oneonta. I now live in Brooklyn, because Manhattan is getting to expensive. I bar-tend in a hot little bar in the East Village, just a block from where I grew up. When I'm not doing that I do a little contracting work to keep up with my Joe buying habits.

In 1982 my Mom bought me my first GI Joes. They were Breaker and Flash. A few weeks later the comic book came out. I was never really into comics until GI Joe. My little 8 year old heart was in a state of shock as I saw the Flash and Breaker team up in the very first issue. I was hooked from that moment on. Since there were no Cobras back then, my Joes had to fight Stromtroopers. I kept collecting figures and the comic all the way up to the end in 1994. Then again once they put out the new ones starting in 1998. And when the new comic came out I bought 50 issues just to hand out to people, to keep the dream alive! I have every single figure, even the rare ones. The prize of my collection is the 1994 Ninja Force Storm Shadow which was never released. I'm currently working on a live-action GI Joe short film. Hopefully I can get it finished for the convention in June 2005.





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