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onlyweaknesskryptonite

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  1. Consider that Disney owns NBC and that NBC holds the rights to this one. Pretty sure this one if introduced would not get hot.
  2. You must be referring to : Superman: Bradman Family Special Edition One-Shot (1988) DC Comics "''This Island Bradman!''" This is an extremely rare Superman comic produced by DC's special projects department in the late 1980s. British property tycoon, Godfrey Bradman, commissioned a Superman comic for his son Daniel's 13th birthday/Bar Mitzvah. The story features family members as prominent characters, Daniel in particular. In addition to the copies sent to the Bradmans, some were kept at DC to be circulated among current staff. Less than 250 copies were produced. (Some sources site 250, others 100, and another only 25 copies.) Far fewer still survive, making this one of the rarest Superman comics around. The indicia title is simply "Superman". This comic was commissioned by English property tycoon Godfrey Bradman for somewhere around £10,000 (around $18,000 back then) to celebrate his son Daniel's 13th birthday (Bar Mitzvah) and was given out to his friends to mark the occasion. The comic was written by David Levin and drawn by the legendary Curt Swan with inking from Angelo Torres, who helped capture the likenesses of the Bradman family. The comic features Godfrey's son Daniel and Andrew Hunt (Daniel's half-brother), along with the rest of the family, in a story entitled "This Island Bradman" where both Superman and the Bradman's house are transported to an alien world to serve as entertainment. Superman is trapped inside the bubble containing the house by Kryptonite beams but the boys manage to escape through an air duct and free Superman who returns them all home. It is not clear exactly how many copies were produced and figures of anything between 25 and 250 have been suggested. 100 seems to be the number quoted most widely as the number received by the family, including one source from within DC Comics and also from a previous owner of one of the comics who had been close to the Bradman family. However, it has been noted that a number of copies were kept by DC and distributed internally (some of which have come up sale) and in Paul Levitz's "75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking" 200 is quoted as the print run so this number seems to have some legitimacy. Also contain a reprint of John Byrnes Superman (1987?) #2
  3. Amazing books as always and one heck of a feeding frenzy. Just want to say Thank you again for the amazing generosity of @SkOw ! Also congratulations on some awesome wins!
  4. I know.. I am just floored.. Never been so happy to have someone give me their Man Thing!!! Also never thought i would ever say that ! Thank you @SkOw
  5. I found it alright. Like lost it does kinda well get lost , but I still did find it enjoyable.
  6. Always good to have a therapeutic hobby. My comment was actually referring to a story about Bob Kane from Arnold Drake.. The clown story comes from Arnold Drake: “Bob had gotten to the point where he never drew anything. Never drew anything on the Batman comics, anyway. [Sheldon] Moldoff was ghosting them all and when he didn’t, someone else did. The only thing I think Bob ever drew was when we’d be out somewhere, in a restaurant or someplace, and a pretty girl would come over to him and say, ‘Are you really the man who draws Batman?’ Then he could whip out a little sketch for her, a big sketch if she was wearing something low-cut and would bend over to watch him draw. One day I’m over at his house to discuss this newspaper strip idea we had and he’s talking about who we might get to draw it. I was going to write it and we were going to get someone else to draw it. I’m not sure what Bob was going to do on it except sign his name. I said to him, 'Bob, isn’t it disappointing to you that you don’t draw any more? You were once such a great artist.’ He wasn’t but you had to talk to Bob that way. He said, 'Oh, no. Let me show you something.’ He took me into a little room in his house. It was his studio. I didn’t even know he still had a studio. It was all set up with easels and things and there were paintings, paintings of clowns. You know the kind. Like the ones Red Skelton used to do. Just these insipid portraits of clowns, all signed very large, 'Bob Kane.’ He was so proud of them. He said, 'These are the paintings that are going to make me in the world of art. Batman was a big deal in one world and these paintings will soon be in every gallery in the world.’ He thought the Louvre was going to take down the Mona Lisa to put up his clown paintings. I didn’t have the heart to tell him. So a few months later, I’m up at DC and I ran into Eddie Herron. Eddie was another writer up there and we got to talking and Bob’s name came up. Eddie said, 'Did you hear? Bob’s getting sued by one of his ghost artists.’ I said, 'How is that possible? Shelly Moldoff’s suing Bob? But they had a clear deal. Shelly knew he wasn’t going to get credit or anything…’ Eddie said, 'No, not Shelly.’ Bob was being sued by the person who’d painted the clowns for him…”
  7. At this point I have an IV drip and peeing in a bottle.. still haven't managed to get in one take..
  8. I was wondering the same thing. I have to use carrier pigeons to send my take. ( obviously by how far back my takes are. ) and they still get shot down.
  9. Between the time I saw this and typed my response, there were probably at least 5 more books and 10 takes on your comment.
  10. My internet signal must really suck as no matter how quick I By the time I see an image of a book I want to take, there is already at least 1 or more takes that show up the same time.
  11. I am still hunting one minor 1st appearance of my first take before 6 others...