Spider-Man Fired

2010-03-02T14:46:24Z

In this image released by Marvel Comics, an inside image is shown from Issue No. 623 of the Spider-Man comic where alter-ego Peter Parker is fired. The issue will go on sale on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Marvel Comics)

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1939 Batman comic sells for more than $1M

2010-02-26T04:31:12Z

<div id="subtitle">Comic marking Batman's first appearance sells for record-shattering more than $1M in Dallas</div><div><p>A 1939 comic book in which Batman makes his debut sold at auction Thursday for more than $1 million, breaking a record set just three days earlier by a Superman comic, Heritage Auction Galleries said.</p><p>The Dallas-ba...

Batman comic fetches $1.075 million, rewrites record

2010-02-25T17:30:29Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Superman and Batman's first appearances in comic books have each set auction sales records and broken the $1 million barrier, in an age when traditional investments have fared badly and superheroes look attractive.</p><p>A 1939 comic with the first ever appearance of masked crime fighter Batman sold at auction in

First Superman comic sells for $1 mln

2010-02-23T09:17:23Z

<div><p>A 1938 copy of the first comic featuring Superman has sold for a record-smashing one million dollars in New York.</p><p>"It's the Holy Grail of comic books," ComicConnect.com auctioneers' founder Stephen Fishler said.</p><p>The record price was reached Monday, easily breaking a 317,200 dollar record set last year when ComicConnect.com sold another, less well preserved copy of the same first ...

First Superman comic sells for one million dollars

2010-02-23T09:17:22Z

From 10 cents to one million dollars: that's super

2010-02-23T09:17:19Z

Superman's debut comic book sells in NYC for $1M

2010-02-23T03:45:31Z

<div id="subtitle">Superman's debut comic book, printed in 1938, sells in NYC for record-shattering $1 million</div><div><p>A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman sold Monday for $1 million, smashing the previous record price for a comic book.</p><p>A 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books, was sold by a private seller to a private buyer, nei...

Superman comic fetches record $1 million

2010-02-22T13:30:45Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A very rare, first edition Superman comic book in top condition sold on Monday for a record $1 million in a public sale held by website ComicConnect.com.</p><p>Owners of the website said the book, Action Comics #1, was first published in June 1938 and introduced the crime-fighting superhero to fans, describing how he was b...

Superman First Issue

2010-02-22T11:00:45Z

In this image released by Comic Connect Corp., a the June 1938 cover of "Action Comics" that first featured Superman, is shown. (AP Photo/Comic Connect Corp.)

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DC Entertainment names co-publishers of DC Comics

2010-02-22T08:36:54Z

<div id="subtitle">DC Entertainment names co-publishers of DC Comics, chief creative officer</div><div><p>DC Entertainment, a new division of Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. movie studio that is focused on the DC Comics brand,...

Founder of San Diego Comic-Con dies at 76

2010-02-24T09:54:43Z

<div id="subtitle">Sheldon Dorf, founder of world-famous San Diego Comic-Con, dies at 76</div><div><p>Sheldon Dorf, who founded the world famous Comic-Con International comic book convention, has died. He was 76.</p><p>A longtime friend, Vincent Zurzolo, COO of Metropolis Collectibiles Inc., looks at a copy of the first Superman comic book he's offering for sale at the Big Apple Comic Con, in New York Friday Oct. 16, 2009. This weekend on a Denver meth ring bought collector comic books to launder millions in cash</div><div><p>Two brothers accused of running a drug ring that imported and distributed millions of dollars worth of methamphetamine in Denver bought hundreds of collector comic books to launder the money, authorities said Monday.</p><p>Police seized comic books worth at ...

An Arctic Snake Eyes figurine in front of a G.I. Joe comic book

2009-08-20T15:31:21Z

20090801;ON;Entertainment;E6 -- An Arctic Snake Eyes figurine stands silently (of course) in front of one of the much-praised G.I. Joe comic books....

Archie Comic Protest

2009-08-14T02:45:20Z

In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 7, 2009 the No. 1 issue of the Archie comic book is seen at Heritage Galleries in Dallas. When comic book store owner Dave Luebke heard that after 67 years, the carrot-topped everyman of the comic world, Archie, was proposing to va-va-voomy rich girl Veronica instead of girl-next-door Betty, he decided to formally protest by selling his copy of the series' rare first...

The History Of Superman

2010-02-26T00:55:38Z

Superman was created in 1932 by Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster and American writer Jerry Siegel. They subsequently sold the publication rights to Detective Comics, Inc. The superhero appeared in public for the first time in the very first copy of Action Comics in 1938.<br><br>On Jan...

Hollywood turns up hype for Comic-Con

2010-02-26T06:21:47Z

<div><p>RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of pop culture fans will descend on the Comic-Con International event this week in San Diego that in recent ye...

Enter Moscow's answer to Batman

2010-02-26T16:47:38Z

<div><p>It's Moscow's version of Gotham City, only the hero of the latest Internet superhero comic strip isn't one of its billionaire oligarchs -- its the speaker of the Russian State Duma.</p><p>A man hitherto not renowned for spectacular deeds, by day Boris Gryzlov is the...

Captain America Returns

2009-06-16T15:49:12Z

In this comic book image released by Marvel Comics, Captain America is shown from, "Captain America Reborn," a five part series from Marvel Comics, available in stores on July 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Marvel Comics)

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Singer Jeffrey Lewis

2009-04-16T00:09:54Z

Mar 19, 2009 - New York, New York, USA - JEFFREY LEWIS in the apartment he grew up in on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. Lewis is an American anti-folk singer / songwriter and comic book artist

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