Posted on 08/25/2014 12:52:19 PM PDT by Justice
A Superman comic, sold for a dime back in June of 1938, fetched a record-breaking auction amount over the weekend - $3.2 million. The eBay auction put up for bids a rare and near mint copy of Action Comics #1, featuring the notable first appearance of the Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster creation: Superman.
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I’m guessing the buyer must be a big Zatara the Magician fan.
I assumed the buyer was a Tex Thomson fan. Watch, it will turn out we’re both wrong because he bought it for Scoop Scanlon!
You sound exactly like a whinny liberal. If someone earned that money, they can buy whatever they choose to buy.
No, you sound like a psychopath. Having the ability to do something doesn't mean that a person should actually do it. Reason, morality, and judgement have an important place in the world.
How about donating $3 million to a charity instead of blowing it on a comic book?
Psychopath!??. How exactly are we to enforce your ‘charity edict’?
Ok, I’ll play.
>>>How about donating $3 million to a charity instead of blowing it on a comic book?<<<
How about the Guy that SOLD the Comic Book donate the money to Charity instead of blowing it on having enough Money to take care of his Family, enjoy Economic Freedom and have a wonderful life.
Your argument might make sense someday, just like Obama’s Economic and Foreign Policies might make sense “someday”.
Nah, isn’t going to happen.
How about you mind your own damned business. Whoever bought it earned the money and it’s theirs to spend as they see fit.
I don’t remember seeing Scoop Scanlon in there. In my copy there IS that Pep Morgan story where the crooked Boxing manager was putting poisoned needles in the blck boxer’s gloves.
The ads from the John Smith company on the back were a mainstay for decades.
I thought I saw him in there. I read the copy of the issue up for sale (the auction site had a slideshow of every page).
Yes, a person can certainly purchase a f@$king comic book for $3 million. Nothing illegal about it and I and the original poster wasn't suggesting it should be forbidden.
HOWEVER it is total douchebaggery to waste $3 million on a comic book, and it also douchebaggery to defend someone who would do such a thing.
Like I said, there is a place for for modesty, judgement, morality, and plain common sense in a culture. Defending douchebaggery is not a virtue. Applauding stupidity as long as it's not directly illegal and it was paid for isn't a good strategy to win back the millions of voters that won't vote for Republicans because we're perceived as a bunch of fringe oddballs.
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