These guys who ALLEGEDLY tried to bug Senator Mary Landrieu's phone, some conservative activists, ALLEGEDLY posed as telephone repairmen to gain access.
I wonder if they had fake mustaches and the whole bit. It sounds like something from an episode of The Adventures of Superman, my old favorite show as a kid. In the episode "Superman Week" Jimmy Olsen poses as a telephone repairman to infiltrate some crooks' apartment and get a story of some sort. They figure out it's a scheme when his big phony looking mustache keeps falling off. They give him truth serum and he spills the goods about Superman being something more than allergic to Kryptonite.
My memory is going a little hazy on the episode. But there's a sculptor in it and Herb Vigrin, one of the series' constant bad guys, has taken his place. The Kryptonite (apparent Kryptonite) is in a hollowed out place in the back of the Superman bust's head. Anyway, not to give away the whole ending, Superman survives.
So, ahh yes, the old Telephone Repairman Scheme. Takes me back!
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Rare Superman Comic
I love to hear about old comic books selling for high prices. It just goes to show our old teachers that comics were valuable and their textbooks were worthless! You know what you can get textbooks for? Go to old book sales and they'll let you carry them out free if you're willing to help them get rid of them. But comics. Well, there's plenty of cheap ones, I guess.
The comic book in question this time is the first "Action" issue, which featured Superman's first appearance. He's holding a car up in the air, leading me to remember a great joke from childhood. "My father is the strongest man in the world." "Why?" "He's a policeman and can hold up a car with one hand." Ha ha.
The original owner, that is, the most recent owner of this comic before it's last sale, got it for 35 cents in a secondhand store in the '50s. Which leads me to wonder why it was so much back then? A secondhand store in the '50s selling old comics for 35 cents? You'd almost think it'd be a nickel or a dime. Still, why quibble? Give the guy 35 cents. It recently sold for over $300,000.
The most valuable comic I ever happened to own was #10 of Spiderman, which at the time listed for something around $70. So I couldn't retire on that.
When I was a kid we had stacks of comics, but they weren't cared for. Instead they were read to death, over and over.
The comic book in question this time is the first "Action" issue, which featured Superman's first appearance. He's holding a car up in the air, leading me to remember a great joke from childhood. "My father is the strongest man in the world." "Why?" "He's a policeman and can hold up a car with one hand." Ha ha.
The original owner, that is, the most recent owner of this comic before it's last sale, got it for 35 cents in a secondhand store in the '50s. Which leads me to wonder why it was so much back then? A secondhand store in the '50s selling old comics for 35 cents? You'd almost think it'd be a nickel or a dime. Still, why quibble? Give the guy 35 cents. It recently sold for over $300,000.
The most valuable comic I ever happened to own was #10 of Spiderman, which at the time listed for something around $70. So I couldn't retire on that.
When I was a kid we had stacks of comics, but they weren't cared for. Instead they were read to death, over and over.
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