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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Superman sells big (what else is new?)
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CNN Headline News just said that a copy of "the earliest known Superman
comic" was sold for many thousands of dollars.

Earliest KNOWN Superman comic?

I just discovered a new one! Superman's first appearance was in "The
Strand" magazine, October 1, 1898. He was called "The Superior Man", in a
story written by some guy named James Fenimore Cooper and illustrated by
some guy named Fred Remington. The illustration shows The Superior Man,
clad in a modest set of tights and vest and waistcoat and overcoat and
motoring goggles, throwing a super-punch at the jaw of the evil,
mustache-twirling Lexington J. Luthor, who has just kidnapped The Superior
Man's wife, Mrs. Lois Superior Man.

I will now sell this rare item for $50,000,000,000,000,000,000, earning
enough money to buy all the OTHER Superman comics in the world... and then
burn them all, which will make the one I sold INFINITELY valuable, CRASHING
THE AMERICAN ECONOMY allowing me to buy my old copy back for a penny with a
few trillion dollars left over, MAKING ME THE UNDISPUTED RULER OF THE
ENTIRE WORLD BECAUSE I AM RICH AND I HAVE A SUPERMAN COMIC BOOK THAT YOU
DON'T!!!

                                        -- K.
                                        The Superior Man's motto:
                                        "Upward, upward, and so I go onward!
                                        Excelsior! Free silver HO!!!!"