How much did/do you like comics?

[imastawka]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/311050328393?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2648

Current bid:

US $2,050,100.00

Approximately AU $2,201,686.09

[ 30 bids ]

Bidders had to register and be approved prior to bidding.

Not bad for a 10c comic!    Mind you it's 76 years old and almost mint condition

[the_great_she_elephant]

How's this for an elephantine memory.

When I was about 10 (63 years ago) I noticed a comic - an American one I presume - in the newsagent's window in my little English country  town. It had a lurid cover - though  I only have a vague ipression of it now and was, presumably, about a character called Plastic Man, because the caption read:

South of the border down Mexico way,

Tricky Toledo had a field day

Till Plastic Man and Boozey(?) put a crimp in his style,

And justice was done where crime had run wild. 

I didn't buy the comic and I have no idea about the story or any of the characters, but for some reason  I never forgot that rhyme.

[imastawka]

I like all your stories everyone.

But my mum was widowed when I was 6 and there were 5 of us.

So, no comics for us.  I never did get into them.

But I understand the fascination with them.

[imastawka]

                        

                Winning bid:

                            US $3,207,852.00

                            Approximately AU $3,448,932.37

                            [ 48 bids ]

     Shock - Didn't think it would get that much!!!!

[the_great_she_elephant]

I wonder if the winner will actully pay.

[imastawka]

They had to be registered and pre-approved apparently