Action Comics #1 - 05/22/13 06:18 PM
Re: Action Comics #1 - 05/23/13 10:56 AM
I heard the story on NPR. 
The crazy things one finds when one remodels one's home. I must say this one would have pleased me more than the 3" thick slab of concrete covering the floor above my bathroom in my 100 y.o. Arts & Crafts house. (If anyone knows why such a slab would have been put in, probably over 50 years ago, on a second story floor, fitting the exact dimensions of the bathroom below, please let me know. We're still baffled by that one.) Give me Superman comic in the walls any day!
The crazy things one finds when one remodels one's home. I must say this one would have pleased me more than the 3" thick slab of concrete covering the floor above my bathroom in my 100 y.o. Arts & Crafts house. (If anyone knows why such a slab would have been put in, probably over 50 years ago, on a second story floor, fitting the exact dimensions of the bathroom below, please let me know. We're still baffled by that one.) Give me Superman comic in the walls any day!
Re: Action Comics #1 - 05/24/13 05:59 AM
Cool story. Amazing that it hadn't been chewed into shreds in a mouse nest or something.
Lost comics...I'm still hoping to find my brother's Amazing Spiderman #1 someday. My mom sold all of his comics in a garage sale for 25ยข each, thinking he'd be happy having made about $10-15. She almost had a heart attack when he told her that that one comic was worth about $200. (On the plus side, it was the last time anything ever went into a garage sale without our agreement.)
Lost comics...I'm still hoping to find my brother's Amazing Spiderman #1 someday. My mom sold all of his comics in a garage sale for 25ยข each, thinking he'd be happy having made about $10-15. She almost had a heart attack when he told her that that one comic was worth about $200. (On the plus side, it was the last time anything ever went into a garage sale without our agreement.)
Re: Action Comics #1 - 05/24/13 02:25 PM
I was talking to a friend who's a book dealer this evening, he's never come close to a discovery like this (though he did once find a first edition copy of Dracula in a junk shop), and says it's a reminder that there must still be a lot of very rare stuff out there if it can only be found.