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When I was a wee lad, my dad brought home for me from the local drug store one day while I was sick (he was there picking up a prescription) this purple record box set featuring Superman that came with a comic book in it. The main story was Superman getting new powers and in it, he shot these rainbow beams out of his fingertips that created these tiny little Superman replicas that would deal with whatever situation was at hand. The second story was a retelling of Superman's origin. I adored that record and comic and played it until the record was worn and scratched and the comic had been read to pieces.
When I started getting in to collecting comics in high school and got my first Overstreet, I started trying to find where that story came from. It took me year and the advent of the internet to discover that the story came from Superman125 from 1958. I duly added that issue to my want list but never ran across one in the wild and it languished on my want list for years. At the start of this year, I made the decision to try and track down some of those books I always wanted if I could find affordable copies. I've made good progress and knocked off about a half dozen off that list so far this year. I put Superman 125 on my ebay search list about 6 months ago and watched even low grade copies go for more than I was comfortable spending on it, so I waited and watched. Last week a copy came up, it was flawed but otherwise presented nice-It had been hold punched-some one had likely stored it in a binder-I've seen that happen occasionally over the years. But besides the hole punches, it looked liked a solid VG copy. And nobody was bidding on it. So I put a bid in and won, getting it for under $20 with shipping included, so after all these years, I have a copy of that rainbow finger Superman story in its original format (which is much cheaper than the box set which I see going for upwards of $200 in decent shape when I see it at all). It arrived in today's mail.
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When I started getting in to collecting comics in high school and got my first Overstreet, I started trying to find where that story came from. It took me year and the advent of the internet to discover that the story came from Superman125 from 1958. I duly added that issue to my want list but never ran across one in the wild and it languished on my want list for years. At the start of this year, I made the decision to try and track down some of those books I always wanted if I could find affordable copies. I've made good progress and knocked off about a half dozen off that list so far this year. I put Superman 125 on my ebay search list about 6 months ago and watched even low grade copies go for more than I was comfortable spending on it, so I waited and watched. Last week a copy came up, it was flawed but otherwise presented nice-It had been hold punched-some one had likely stored it in a binder-I've seen that happen occasionally over the years. But besides the hole punches, it looked liked a solid VG copy. And nobody was bidding on it. So I put a bid in and won, getting it for under $20 with shipping included, so after all these years, I have a copy of that rainbow finger Superman story in its original format (which is much cheaper than the box set which I see going for upwards of $200 in decent shape when I see it at all). It arrived in today's mail.
eyKONPD.jpg
-M
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