[2] The most extensive information about his formative stage during childhood and youth was provided by Antoni Comas himself in the two autobiographical prologues to individual historical monographs on the Mataronian society.

[3][4] Born into a workers family with deep Christian convictions, he was a student at the Escola Pia in his city where he found the stimulus to learn, and, despite Franco's regime, a respectful look towards Catalan culture and language.

The Popular Library, located right in the same square as his school, which was directed by Claudi Mayol and the librarian Pilar Cuadrada, also played a prominent role in his education.

During the 1960–1961 academic year, being an interim professor in the Romance Philology section, he began regular teaching of the Catalan language at the University of Barcelona under Franco's regime.

Finally, in 1965, Antoni Comas won the concours for the Catalan Language and Literature chair reinstated 25 years after its suppression by Franco at the end of the Civil War .

Un homenatge shows how Antoni Comas alongside Batllori, Blecua Teixeiro, Valverde and Riquer were decisive in shaping him as a person and as an intellectual.