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Family averts forclosure by finding Action #1 in the basement (real story)

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PovertyRow

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Who doesn't clean their basement in 72 years ??

 

Something similar happened to ME when I was a kid. Our house was almost 100 years old and the attic was never really touched. When the time came to gut it and insulate it, add a floor (you had to walk between the beams) etc they cleared out a lot of stuff. Newspapers going back to the early 1900's. Old clothes and shoes and just tons of "junk". Wish I was there knowing what I know now.

 

But what I found up there was an original one-sheet movie poster from the Lon Chaney Senior silent movie PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. It was rolled and in beautiful condition. I remember unrolling it and being stunned at the image. This was a 5 figure poster (today) just sitting up there rolled up amidst the junk. I stored it away in "my cabinet" which, a few years later, my mother decided to clean. Bye bye PHANTOM.

 

In later years when I started collecting old film posters I scoured the place for that poster just in case. No luck.

 

So it certainly can happen.

 

OUCH - I just did some searching and fopund this sold at Heritage in Nov 2008 for $155,350.00.

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TheWatcher

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Whatever happened to that Detective 27?

 

 

I think it was sent to CGC and got a clean bill of health.

 

This was brought up a year or so ago and at that time it hadn't been sent to CGC. Not sure what's transpired since then

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Larryw7

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Whatever happened to that Detective 27?

 

 

I think it was sent to CGC and got a clean bill of health.

 

This was brought up a year or so ago and at that time it hadn't been sent to CGC. Not sure what's transpired since then

 

 

Interesting. I wonder if Todd McDevitt still has it?

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TheWatcher

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Whatever happened to that Detective 27?

 

 

I think it was sent to CGC and got a clean bill of health.

 

This was brought up a year or so ago and at that time it hadn't been sent to CGC. Not sure what's transpired since then

 

 

Interesting. I wonder if Todd McDevitt still has it?

 

Last I heard he does

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Designer Toast

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Superman Comic Saves Family From Foreclosure

 

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In the nick of time, the Man of Steel saved a family's home ... for real. A couple facing foreclosure found the collateral they desperately needed with the discovery of an Action Comics #1 (aka, the Holy Grail of comic books) in their basement.

 

As any true fanboy knows, Action Comics #1 is the most significant comic of all time because it was Superman's debut. In fact, the issue birthed the entire genre of the superhero.

 

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. When they first realized what they had found, they contacted Stephen Fishler, co-owner of New York's ComicConnect and Metropolis Collectibles.

 

"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 copy will go on display at this weekend's Comic-Con in San Diego, where it will also be officially graded. Fishler figures it will garner a VG+ (Very Good) rating and should fetch upwards of $250,000 when it goes up for auction on ComicConnect.

 

Asylum was able to get a reaction from the owner (who wants to remain anonymous), who said through Fishler that the family was "still a little shell-shocked about finding this book. I was so nervous when I realized what it was worth. I know

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I am very fortunate but I will be greatly relieved when this book finds a new home."

 

Thankfully, it looks like they'll get to keep theirs.

 

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Designer Toast

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Repeat thread but you're slow so I will allow it.

 

xoxo

 

greggy

 

 

Oh yeah? Well, how about the leaked Thor trailer . I'm sure no one here has posted that yet. :whistle:

 

Or how about a bootleg The Walking Dead trailer!

 

Or how about I throw some birthday news your way.

 

Check out this piece of recent dandy news.

 

And I'll top this off with a killer Mortal Combat trailer.

 

Zap. Pow. Moo. Poop on you. :kidaround:

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Loki

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CBS news ran this story last night as I happened to be flipping through the channels...

 

They were showing photos of a Universal 5.0 with Off-White pages and indicated it was supposed to be going to auction at Comic Connect next month.

 

Anyone else catch this?

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