Rare comic book featuring Superman's first appearance... expected to fetch up to $1.2 MILLION

Daily Mail ^ | 17 November 2017

[LostInBayport]

Any DC comics before 2004 were almost pro America and conservative. DC and Marvel comics nowadays are unreadable leftist crap.

Spot on. It seems to me that after Bush got elected in 2000, the majority of the comic industry went into liberal overdrive and drove most of their customers, including me, away. They haven't seen any money from me in many years. They must be completely insane with the SJW lunacy with Trump in office!

[tumblindice]

Mine gave mine away too. And my pineapple hand grenade.

[mairdie]

>>And my pineapple hand grenade.

Really or teasing me? I’m awfully gullible.

I was driving on the Outer Drive in Chicago with my brother in the winter when he pointed at a boat harbor and said, “Oh, look, they’ve sunk the boats in the harbor.” He went on to explain that boats are waterproof and, for their protection, they’re sunk every winter to avoid ice storms. So I’m driving with my new husband down the Outer Drive and point out the window and say, “Oh, look! They’ve sunk the boats in the harbor.” Didn’t live that down for years.

[1_Inch_Group]

haha...first couple trips out weren’t so successful.

But it was the 70’s, and dad had an idea. You want the money for a hatchet for camp. Wear your cub scout uniform and tell them that. Lots of moms bought the premise and got a box or two of cards.

They’d write checks directly to my mom, she’d cover the order, give me my dollars and MAKE me deliver everything the day I got it.

70’s. Ahhhhh.

[mairdie]

Very clever parents. For me it was the 50’s, and I was mostly taught the lesson not to order anything from an ad without parental permission.

[JimSEA]

The process you recall was “floatation”. In the mill/concentrated they first crush and use a ball mill to grind the ore finely. They then use reagents and frothing agents to separate the ore particles from the waste (tails). The ore is concentrated to about 25% copper and heavy metals which is then smelted and the metals are separated from the slag (waste).

[mairdie]

That is SO exciting. I might have been at the very mine you worked at!!!!!! Thank you for the explanation. That’s tingling some old memories. I absolutely love it.

[tumblindice]

I found the live grenade in a culvert in some tall grass outside an old Wehrmacht bunker in the late `50s when I was about 5 years old, and brought it home.
My father made sure it was safe and I kept it for about six or seven years.
Mom never liked it or Marvel comics. One day my pineapple was gone, along with my big box of 12 cent DC Action comics: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash, Ultraman, the Ant, The Green Hornet and more. I wept bitter tears.

[mairdie]

That was absolutely unique and I’ll bet you were the envy of everyone in the neighborhood. What a loss! I just don’t understand how mothers don’t understand or value what their children value. Accept my virtual tears in sympathy for both of our losses.

[Rastus]

I now half believe that Free Fallin’ was about Superman.

[minnesota_bound]

I still have 2 copies. The 3rd one was eaten by the dog.

[Kickass Conservative]

Did anyone ever take you to the Submarine Races? Just askin’.

[mairdie]

Ah, Lake Michigan. Rainbow Beach. Fond memories.

Wasn’t growing up wonderful?

[trebb]

I am constantly amazed at what people manage to cherish and spend so much money on.

Loved comics as a kid - Spider-Man and Black Panther were a couple favorites but Superman and Batman were also up there. Also liked Archie and company.

Then I got older ... I guess I in some way envy those who managed to stay so excited about the simpler things....

[mairdie]

Most topics can be approached at a simple level and at a more sophisticated level. Comic books are an obvious one. For children, they're an exciting way to learn to read willingly. And even when you no longer need the visual encouragement, they're still memories of happy times.

Yes, they're a popular art form, but I don't see Da Vinci as the only worthwhile artist out there. Every style of art that uses line and, optionally, color, is striving toward some goal of perfection within its style. And just as the Mannerist school might not be your favorite art style, some might be turned off by comic book art, too. Personally, I shudder at Bosch and Bruegel. But comic book art is an art form. And it is able to be studied as a school with developmental history, great artists and lesser ones who copy the great ones, as well as artists who try to push the stylistic edges of the box.

The stories in comic books can be simple, and those have been migrated into education as a device for teaching reading for children who need the additional excitement that comes with the images. That's not an end in itself, since they need to be moved to find their own mental images in words, but it's a good transition stage.

And the stories, themselves, can become extremely sophisticated. The work of Richard and Wendy Pini in Elfquest takes comic books to a whole new level. Their original stories are as sophisticated, complicated, dark and light, as what you expect in good science fiction writing.

I've written a lot of professional books and limited-audience fiction. When I wanted to publish a book of poetry from around 1800, I went naturally to the comic book school for the same reason educators do - to encourage people who would not normally read poetry to easily see images and, hopefully, some day to read the poetry straight. I find Henry Livingston's poetry absolutely thrilling, and the comic book style was the best way I knew to offer readers my sense of excitement. The art I used was much like comic book art - turn of the century postcards.

Oh, and I loved Archie, too. And I'd certainly also enjoy an argument of comic books as art.

[beergarden]

Most of the great series like Darkest Night, Death of Superman, Batman Returns, Flash and Green Arrow returns are available via pdf. The one thing I actually bought as a series was the return of Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) from the dead and was written by effing Kevin Smith. I should throw it away but the story beat my hatred for that damn leftard.

[mairdie]

Congratulations, grandpa! How absolutely wonderful. Blessed indeed. And best of all is that you know it. So many don’t. May this season be the best you’ve had, and every subsequent one even better. A very Happy Christmas to you and yours.

[Red Badger]

My mother ‘disposed’ of all my comic books when we moved..................8^(