David
first time I met Steve he was 12 years old looking for Fantastic Four
#1 and had the cash with him and much more.
a year later he was a dealer too.
Always a good friend, I know he won't be bothered by mentioning that
his father was a liquor distributor and that should tell you
everything. His mother is a sweet lady and Steve is a very smart businessman
Rich
At 04:28 PM 3/14/2009, David Kusumoto wrote:
On the AP wires today, see below.
[BTW, Fishler was/is a big buyer of movie posters and is loaded with
$$$. I saw him at a Bruce's huge auction held in L.A.'s cavernous
Pacific Design Center that I covered 10 years ago for Movie
Collector's World. At the time he was only 31 -- and he walked away
with the biggest prizes of the day -- two unbacked one-sheets for
"Dracula" ($74,750) and "The Invisible Man" ($55,200).] -d.
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Rare Superman comic sells for $317,200
Mar 14, 5:44 PM (ET)
By DAVID B. CARUSO
NEW YORK (AP) - A rare copy of the first comic book featuring
Superman has sold for $317,200 in an Internet auction. The previous
owner had bought it for less than a buck.
It's one of the highest prices ever paid for a comic book, a
likely testament to the volume's rarity and its excellent
condition, said Stephen Fishler, co-owner of the auction site
ComicConnect.com and its sister dealership, Metropolis Collectibles.
The winning bid for the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1,
which features Superman lifting a car on its cover, was submitted
Friday evening by John Dolmayan, drummer for the rock band System
of a Down, according to managers at ComicConnect.com.
Dolmayan, who is also a dealer of rare comic books, said he
acquired the Superman comic on behalf of a client he declined to identify.
"This is one of the premier books you could collect," he said
in a telephone interview. "It's considered the Holy Grail of comic
books. I talked to my client, and we made the move."
Dolmayan said the client has "a small collection, but
everything he has is incredible."
Only about 100 copies of Action Comics No. 1 are known to exist and
they seldom come up for sale.
"Maybe in a booming economy, it would have done a hundred grand
more, but in this economy, I think the price is great," Fishler said.
The man who had previously owned the book purchased it in a
secondhand store in the early 1950s when he was nine years old.
He paid 35 cents.
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Associated Press writer Adam Goldman in New York contributed to this report.
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