Name any Action Comics #1 reference....

[ft88]

Outside of the direct comic book collecting arena.

 

1. Simpsons episode where Crusty lights an Action #1 to light a cigar

2. Simpsons episode where Homer passes over an Action #1 at a flea market and calls it "junk"

3. A 1980's Twightlight Zone episode where a bum / packrat saves stuff and one of the items he saves is an Action #1 in Mint condition of course.

 

More?

[buttock]

Outside of the direct comic book collecting arena.

 

1. Simpsons episode where Crusty lights an Action #1 to light a cigar

2. Simpsons episode where Homer passes over an Action #1 at a flea market and calls it "junk"

3. A 1980's Twightlight Zone episode where a bum / packrat saves stuff and one of the items he saves is an Action #1 in Mint condition of course.

 

More?

 

It wasn't Twilight Zone, it was Amazing Stories and the bum was Mark Hamill. One of the defining moments of my childhood.

[ft88]

Good call, I couldn't remember it exactly as I only saw it that one and only time.

[tth2]

Outside of the direct comic book collecting arena.

 

1. Simpsons episode where Crusty lights an Action #1 to light a cigar

2. Simpsons episode where Homer passes over an Action #1 at a flea market and calls it "junk"

3. A 1980's Twightlight Zone episode where a bum / packrat saves stuff and one of the items he saves is an Action #1 in Mint condition of course.

 

More?

 

It wasn't Twilight Zone, it was Amazing Stories and the bum was Mark Hamill. One of the defining moments of my childhood.

Yup. Wasn't there a Detective 27 in there too? I loved the moral of that story: live a life of deprivation, destroy your family and everyone who loves you, and someday you'll become rich, but only after you're too old to really enjoy it.

[buttock]

Yeah, I wondered that too. The guy led a crappy life until he's too old to enjoy it. I think there was a Marvel #1 too. I used to have it recorded and would freeze-frame on that spread.

 

In real life, the dealer would have offered him $500 and ripped him off.

[action1kid]

did you know that mark hamill is a golden age comicbook collector...it is true.

[tth2]

Yeah, I wondered that too. The guy led a crappy life until he's too old to enjoy it. I think there was a Marvel #1 too. I used to have it recorded and would freeze-frame on that spread.

Yup, loved that episode. It originally aired when I was in college, and 2 of my housemates and I were comic collectors, and we collectively became unglued during that scene.

 

In real life, the dealer would have offered him $500 and ripped him off.

Oh come on, that's so cynical. Next thing you'll be telling me that a dealer only paid cover price for the greatest comic collection in history!

[DarrenSmith]

1. Simpsons episode where Crusty lights an Action #1 to light a cigar

 

Actually, if you look at the comic he lights it is actually a reprint. (for real)

[BradleyX2]

Outside of the direct comic book collecting arena.

 

1. Simpsons episode where Crusty lights an Action #1 to light a cigar

2. Simpsons episode where Homer passes over an Action #1 at a flea market and calls it "junk"

3. A 1980's Twightlight Zone episode where a bum / packrat saves stuff and one of the items he saves is an Action #1 in Mint condition of course.

 

More?

 

It wasn't Twilight Zone, it was Amazing Stories and the bum was Mark Hamill. One of the defining moments of my childhood.

 

 

"The Pack Rat" I believe that episode was called.

 

I only saw once when it originally aired, and still remember it vividly.

 

Mark Hamill as an old man at a gas station, trying to gas up his car, to take "one more drive before I die", but being refused because he had to pay in advance, and he had no cash.

 

Then later, when he was selling his stuff, those two young guys saying to each other: "Hey, you know what this is? It's the Action Comic with the very first Superman in it."