Parenting & Family Quote by Bill Mumy

Nostalgia is doing double duty here: it’s not just a warm memory, it’s a credential. Bill Mumy frames his fandom as lifelong and handmade, the kind of origin story that quietly argues he belongs in the conversation about comics as more than a consumer. “Big fan” is casual, almost shruggy, but the punchline is the upgrade: he wasn’t only reading comic books, he was making them. That move turns fandom into practice, and practice into identity.

The kicker is the setting: “when I was on the old Lost in Space series.” He’s folding two mythologies together - childhood creativity and early TV stardom - and the subtext is a small act of reclamation. Child actors are often remembered as faces rather than makers; Mumy’s detail about writing and drawing suggests he had an inner life and a craft life even while being packaged for mass entertainment. The phrase “the old” signals both affection and distance, a nod to how retro cult properties get reprocessed by new generations. He’s meeting that culture halfway: yes, it’s vintage, yes, it’s a brand, but it’s also where he was quietly building his own worlds.

Culturally, the quote plays into the current premium on “authentic” geek lineage. In a moment when fandom can feel performative, Mumy’s anecdote lands because it’s specific, pre-digital, and slightly lonely: a kid on a soundstage drawing panels to entertain himself. It humanizes the celebrity and elevates comics as a formative toolkit, not a guilty pleasure.