Last Kiss by John Lustig for December 04, 2024

Some how, I knew that was coming, and laughed anyway. Guess that makes John a genius.

It was probably bought by the Six Million Dollar Man…

If only I had enough money.

I can remember reading a nice Action Comics #1 from cover-to-cover when it was only worth a few thousand dollars (around 1980, I think). But I was extremely careful with how I turned the pages. Good times.

Well, I couldn’t avoid the joke, so it’s good thing I don’t have to pay for it.

Come on babe everybody has a price, now we’re just negotiating.

Is the winning bidder illiterate?

William Randolph Hearst was famous for buying art in Europe and then leaving it crated up in his castle. And don’t get me started on that rich idiot with the banana.

More people are going to remember and bless the lady who decided to make a medical school education free than the clown who brought the comic book he can’t touch.

After reflecting on his life….Andrew Carnegie sponsored local libraries as a “Fire escape” (as my History Prof said). I dinna think $6M comic or banana classify as a ’fire escape."

I’d settle for a green b’nanner …

Tell me John how much is a First edition of Heavy Metal worth ( aka Metal Hurlant )

jlick? Sounds kinky!

Well, Action #1 does introduce Superman. THE Superhero.

No one has to pay ME to read LAST KISS! It’s a pleasure and a privilege!

I recently paid $450 for the entire 61 editions of a comic book I liked as a kid, but never owned more than about 12. I will read every one of them, although with the cotton gloves I used for handling film negatives. Not sure what I’ll do with them when I’m done, it’s somewhat obscure so maybe no one else has the entire series.

My only memory of a “#1” Comic, was one I thought was called “Combat”, but when I looked it up, the cover art doesn’t match what I remember. The one one that does resemble what I remember is “G.I. Combat”, which is the rarest and most valuable one. Unfortunately, my mother threw all of my comic books out. Thanks, mom…

All of the Last Kiss comics on my computer are dog-eared.

We had a copy of Action #1 at my grandma’s – where it has been since my dad was 7; to us it was just a cool comic (because of it I know Superman couldn’t fly; he actually leapt tall buildings, and to some place in a hurry he’d jump up on the then-mostly-new electric lines and run really fast) that we read and reread until she finally tossed it.

I read this comic… but it was worth every penny!

The buyer will be able to read the comic, with the help of a nuclear physics lab that he probably can afford. Check out the tech used to scan papyrus rolls from Pompeii.

Well Darling, just go over there and click the “unfollow” button and you won’t have to read Last Kiss ever again. Now for telling you that, I want you to leave $1,000,000 in bitcoin in a paper bag behind the third toilet in the “gents” down at the Greyhound depot.

most excellent

When I was young, and even when I was still sort-of young, the only way to read the comics of an earlier era, or even the comics of a few months ago that I hadn’t bothered to pick up at the time, was to buy the back issues, if you could manage to track them down and afford them. It’s so nice that so much is now available in reprints, and kind of curious how little difference that availability makes to the price of the collectible originals.

Do not smudge the electrons.

When I was a kid, DC Comics published a giant reprint of Action #1. Comics were 20 cents then, and this was a dollar. I bet that is worth quite a bit today, but of course I didn’t hold onto it.

DC did that with several important editions, IIRC. Brilliant.

But just think you could also buy a banana taped to a whiteboard for 6.2 million.