Seven months after The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, a sixteen-year-old New Orleans boy found himself selling Cokes inside City Park Stadium on the night Beatlemania broke loose.

Growing up in Peru, Marco dreamed of giant robots, American movies and the toys he saw on television. Those childhood memories eventually led him across continents, into engineering and back to the characters that inspired it all.

From an vintage copy of Welcome to My Nightmare to a signed CD nearly forty years later, my journey with Alice Cooper became a story about music, faith and learning to look beyond the makeup.

The summer of 1989 belonged to Batman. One unforgettable movie sparked a lifetime of collecting, inspiring a decades-long search for the memories, merchandise and moments that transformed one summer into a lifelong adventure.