Superman to the rescue

Action Comics #1 is without a doubt the single most important comic book ever produced. It not only introduced the world to Superman but invented the superhero. It’s arguably the common ancestor of every costumed crime-fighter comic book ever since.

And now Superman, or rather the comic book that introduced Superman, has saved a family from foreclosure. The family accidentally stumbled upon a copy of this seminal piece of American history sitting in their basement.

The fortuitous find occurred when the anonymous family began the painful process of packing up their home due to a bank’s foreclosure proceedings. The house had been in the family’s possession since the 1950s, which is probably when the wife’s father stashed the issue in a box with some other, mere mortal titles.

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“They said they came across a box that had magazines in it and some old comic books,” Fishler told Asylum. “And that they came across what appears to be an Action #1.” Fishler points out that “99.9 percent” of similar calls he receives turn out to be about reprints, so at first he was dubious. “They took a cell phone picture of the book and texted it to me, and I realized it was an Action #1,” he says.

Fishler is no stranger to this title, having brokered the record-breaking sale of an Action #1 in February (for $1 million), only to break that record a month later by selling another copy for $1.5 million.

This gave them the collateral they needed to save their home. And once again, the world is safe…thanks to Superman!

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News From Around The Blogosphere 10.5.09

1. Liberty “University” adopts a liberal – To further illustrate how illegitimate Jerry Falwell’s ridiculous little school is, they decided to launch a new prayer-in-action program called “Adopt a Liberal.” The idea is to choose a liberal authority figure to be the subject of regular, intense prayers:

Here’s How it Works…
Pick one or more of the liberals from the list we have posted online at http://www.LC.org, or choose your own liberal(s) to adopt. If you are led to choose one or more of the liberals we have selected for consideration, please read their brief biographical statement, including the reasons they stand in need of prayer.

Pray earnestly and intensely for them! Pray that the Lord would move upon them and cause them to be the kind of leaders who will encourage others to lead “a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.” We encourage you to seek the Lord’s guidance on how to pray for your liberal(s), always allowing Him to temper your prayer with His love and mercy.

2. Shroud of Turin debunked. . .again –

An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth is a medieval fake.

3. Grand Unified Theory of Superman – Most superheroes have only one power and you might have thought they all had to be jealous of Superman because he seemed to have so many. I mean, just to duplicate Superman’s powers you’d need: Captain Marvel, The Flash, Cyclops, Colossus, Dare Devil, Ice Man, and Miss Marvel. I think that about covers it. But a scientist has now determined that Superman might only have one superpower:

It is our opinion that all of Superman’s recognized powers can be unified if His power is the ability to manipulate, from atomic to kilometer length scales, the inertia of His own and any matter with which He is in contact.

See True Believers, science can have practical applications! Excelsior!

Help save Superman’s house

Superman isn’t my absolute favorite superhero. That title belongs to Batman. But I’ll say that in my life I’ve found Superman infinitely more inspirational than Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, the Buddha, and any other equivalent mythological figure. So I’m in favor of protecting the house that spawned him and turning it into a national landmark.

To find out more, go here.