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...Great Comic Book Heroes - a greatly comic and, in its way, heroic book - Jules Feiffer describes the odd spectacle of middle-aged men "who continue to be addicts, who save old comic books, buy them, trade them, and will, many of them, pay up to fifty dollars for the first issues of Superman or Batman...
...wrote this in 1965. Since then, the comic-book collectibles market has exploded. In 2005, according to the Wall Street Journal, "A near-perfect 'Action Comics' No. 1, the book that launched Superman, lists for $485,000, up from $200,000 five years ago." That's nearly a 5 million percent markup from the 1938 street price of 10 cents. In 2002 Nicolas Cage, who had taken his stage name from Luke Cage, the first black comic-book super hero, got $1.68 million for his comics collection, which included an issue that introduced Batman's sidekick Robin and another that...
...Indian from Manitoba, has more than two dozen films to his credit, including the critically acclaimed Smoke Signals and the John Woo-directed Windtalkers, where he starred opposite Nicolas Cage. He chatted with TIME's Carolina A. Miranda about war, the state of Native actors in Hollywood and the comic book superhero he would one day like to portray...
...still trying to figure out how to get this comic book hero off the ground: Turok. He's the dinosaur hunter. It's also a video game right now. I'd love to do the voice in the animated version. But I want to do a live action version as well. Also, I just officially signed on with Law & Order: SVU. I'm the new regular. I'm stepping into one of the hottest shows as a regular. It's history in the making: there will be a Native American individual who will be shown nationwide on television once...
...officer as an “electronic circuit board with LED lights attached.” At around 1 p.m. yesterday, calls from concerned citizens began flooding law enforcement offices and several more packages were found, officials said. The packages were found in locations ranging from a comic book store on Harvard Street to the New England Medical Center. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, along with Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 and Police Commissioner Edward Davis, held a press conference at the Unified Command Center in Boston, where the mayor urged citizens...