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Rare Superman comic sells for 317,200 dollars in online auction
Mar 15, 2009, 18:12 GMT
New York - A collector in the United States has sold the Superman comic book that cost him just a few cents when he was a child for 317,200 dollars in an internet auction, US media reported Sunday.
The comic - Action Comics No. 1 - is dated 1938 and is the first edition of the comic series featuring the flying superhero, the New York Daily News reported. Only around 100 of this specific comic edition are thought to have been preserved worldwide.
The newspaper said it was not common for such a rare item to be sold in an internet auction. The comic was sold for one of the highest prices ever paid for a comic, according to the report. Its seller had brought the comic second-hand at a bookshop in the 1950s for 35 cents when he was nine years old.
The winning bidder came from John Dolmayan, the drummer for the rock band System of a Down. He also deals in comics and said he was buying it on behalf of a client.
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LANCY WANCY,
As you liked this so much I thought I might repost it.
Another sententious pronouncement from la-la, the Porcelain God’s juvenile oracle!
You sit typing your simplistic trash and posting it on these pages round the clock! We are all aware of your elementary schoolyard philosophy by now. You never say anything new, answer a direct question from anyone, or concede that any other view but your own may have even the slightest merit. I, and others have extended what “Tonny from Belgium” described as an open hand to you. It was quite obviously a wasted exercise. The most sensible answer I have ever managed to elicit from you was “I’m speechless.” Would that were true!
There have been various suggestions from other posters here as to why you bother. After all, everyone who reads these pages sees your “Tag,” heaves a sigh of resigned frustration, and nine times out of ten scrolls down to try and find something a bit more rational. Are you simply a deranged monomaniacal tit as many would have it? A ‘disturbed’ young nerd as others have suggested?
My own theory is that you do it to try to impress some equally spotty, anally retentive, political correctness obsessed ‘significant other.’ So long as she / he / it? continues to nurture in their fuddled pea-sized mind the misapprehension that you are the most caring and enlightened human being ever born, you will be able to continue to enjoy an occasional inept thrash in the sack. Fatuous dribble supplied via your computer to secure continued access to another sort of box entirely. If so, one can only hope that you are as sterile physically as you are mentally.
One of the most amusing ideas came from a wise man of my acquaintance. He speculated that you are an Oriental student, whose tutor had advised him to;
“post Borrocks on Engrish Website, To Fu! Fan-Qi wir themse-ves perfect your understanding of Barbarian idioms.”
We imagined you sitting there with a tourist phrasebook and the Mandarin version of Wiki (wha’ is idiot-stick??… …AH! hahaha, Amelican velly funnee maan!!)
It may even be true for all I know or care. In any case, surely “Time for you to reave, Glasshopper!”
You are not a “lance.” You are a boil, sorely in need of one!
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lanceMar 15th, 2009 - 20:24:08
How typical of the willfully ignorant typical U.S. citizen. To spend money on a cartoon character, a willfully ignorant typical paper superhero, instead of spending the money on something useful, like Jesus bombs.
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