Book News: First Superman Comic Soars To $3.2 Million At Auction

Book News: First Superman Comic Soars To .2 Million At Auction

A copy of 1938"s Action Comics No. 1, which features the first appearance of Superman, sold for a record-breaking $ 3,207,852 to an unnamed buyer on Sunday. Darren Adams, the owner of Pristine Comics, posted it on eBay on Aug. 14. The only other comic …
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Charger Bulletin staff conquers Comic Con

I talked with him about the relationship between movies and comics and how they may not be quite like you would think. We tend to believe that changes in the comics affect the films, and reasonably so, since the films are based on the stories in these …
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New Spider-Woman comic cover condemned for "blatant sexualisation"

Announced at Comic-Con in San Diego last month , as part of a "Women of Marvel" panel, the new series, by author Dennis Hopeless and artist Greg Land, is set to debut in November, starring Jessica Drew as Spider-Woman. A variant cover for the first …
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Images from Wizard World Chicago Comic Con in Rosemont

Noah Fuller, 15 of Tinley Park poses for a photo with Lou Ferrigno, aka the "Hulk" from the 1970s TV during his visit to the Comic Con convention at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. Fuller said his dad used to watch the Hulk on TV …
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Federer's confidence soars before start of US Open

Federer"s confidence soars before start of US Open

Nothing particularly amusing about asking how he adjusts from playing mostly night matches in the U.S. Open"s early rounds to the daytime starts at the end. But the assumption behind the query was cause for delight. “It"s perfect that we"re talking …
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For Bay Area residents, Napa quake rattles memories

We"ve laughed off or ignored post-1989 quakes as a rite of passage among residents, and at times we found the overreactions of tourists to their first earthquake amusing. Not this time. Laura Dikman, 25, had just moved to Palo Alto, Calif., from Tampa …
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True Blood: “Thank You”

This forced her to actually stake him, and even if the image of Sookie straddling Bill while he turned into a puddle of gooey blood and guts was more amusing than sad, it was still something. Which is more than I can say for the rest of the episode. If …
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