Ben Reid

Just read the notice of Ben's passing in the Cronkite Journal from ASU. Ben was one of the most interesting characters I ever met. I worked with him at KOOL-TV from 1975 to 1981. Some of my most vivid memories of Ben: standing on the top step of a tall ladder (gives me vertigo just thinking about it), bubble gum -- lots of the hard, barely chewable bubble gum that came with the sci-fi trading cards he collected, a miniature set he was building for a Christmas-themed animation project and...

Ben was all this, and so much more.

My deepest condolences,
Dave Preppie' Hart

Ben and my Dad worked together at channel 10 in the 70 s and 80's . Ben was apart of our family , and we loved him like an uncle . I am sorry that I lost contact with him . We spent many holidays together when I was a kid . He treated my brother , sister and myself as if we were his own children . The last time I had spoke to Ben was in 1997 when I got out of the Navy . We spoke for hours that day . He would always make various Star Wars toys and figures such as the millennium falcon from...

I was so sorry to see that Ben had passed. I haven't seen Ben in years, but used to see him on a weekly basis at a local comic book store where I used to work. I loved talking comics with him, and was always fascinated by his studio work.

I was just a teenager when I met Ben, and being into comics and games then definitely put you into nerd category. Ben made me realize the love for those things didn't make me a nerd-- It made me cool! I went on to open my own comic book store, Samurai...