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.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.
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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.
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.
Your no-prizes are in the mail, guys.
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
That looks like a fun book... I know what I'm getting on my next trip to the library...
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