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August 26, 2012: Karl Kesel Sells Off Comics for Adopted Son's Medical Bills

Karl and Isaac Karl Kesel, who wrote and inked many Superman comic books, is having to sell off his collection of rare comic books to pay for the adoption of his son Isaac, who was born with an addiction to heroin.

Karl and his wife Myrna, having been unable to fall pregnant, decided to adopt a child from Open Adoption & Family Services in Portland, which mostly dealt with babies affected by drug, alcohol and mental illness.

After a long two-year wait they eventually met with a 22-year-old couple whose baby was addicted to heroin due to the mother being unable to completely get clean when she discovered she was pregnant. Karl and his wife were selected and tearfully set about naming the newly adopted son Isaac.

    "They entrusted him to us," Myrna says. "Which is very empowering. We thought our age was a factor against us, but they liked that we were older."

    They also appreciated that Karl Kesel has spent the past 30 years scripting and inking comics.

    That reminded the birth father "of his dad and the fun he had growing up," Myrna says. "He really liked the idea of their son running around like Superman at a comics convention."

    What is also true, however, is that the good choices on adoption don't cancel out the bad choices with drugs. That's why Isaac spent the first five weeks of his life in painful withdrawal from heroin and methadone.

    In the first three weeks, Karl and Myrna rarely left his side at Portland Providence Medical Center, even though the hospital really wasn't set up to accommodate them.

While Isaac is now a happy and healthy baby, Karl and his wife are confronted with the prospect of paying part of Isaac's huge $67,000 medical bill and the $25,000 adoption fee.

To help with these costs, Karl is selling off his comic book collection on BlastOffComics.com, while a "I Like Comics in Vancouver" benefit will be held on September 1-2 to help defray the family's expenses.

Source: OregonLive.com.


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