Sunday, November 30, 2008

What I Should Have Invested In

While reading an old issue of Action Comics from 1966 last night, I was amused to read the following letter in the Metropolis Mailbag letters column. I was thirteen in 1966, and it would have been difficult, but not impossible, to scrape up $40.00 for the investment. But who knew back then? The scan of the 80 page Giant Superman is the comic to which the letter writer refers to.

5 comments:

Mr Goodson said...

I love the old letters pages. I like on that page some reader saying he had spotted errors. Does anything say NERD more than quibbles with Superhero mythology.

Yes Tom. We missed our chanace to bundle a ton of this stuff up for future liquidation. I wisjh i still had all my old Witzends.

Tom Moon said...

Great Krypton Ellis! Can you really read the other letters on that page? What eyes you have! I like that letter too, but of course the hard-core fans of that era usually referred to mistakes by the technical term "boo-boos". "Dear Editor: I think I spotted a boo-boo in your last issue."

Wikipedia currently says Action #1 is worth $1,380,000, but the source of the information is not cited.

Good old Ellis, I knew you'd be online Sundays.

Rickart said...

Your no-prizes are in the mail, guys.

Mr Goodson said...

The problem getting that million plus for a comic book is finding a buyer. George Soros might buy it if it could help him destroy the American way of life.

Anybody heard about the book The Amazing Adventures of KAVALIER and CLAY. It's really a great read thus far. Making a couple of guys like Siegel and Schuster the heroes in a novel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Adventures_of_Kavalier_&_Clay

Rickart said...

That looks like a fun book... I know what I'm getting on my next trip to the library...