Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Associated Press:
The record price for a comic book, already broken twice this year, has been shattered again. A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1 sold Monday for $1.5 million US on the auction website ComicConnect.com. The issue, which features Superman's debut and originally sold for 10 cents, is widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books.The same issue sold in February for $1 million US, though that copy wasn't in as good condition as the issue that sold Monday. That number was bested just days later when a 1939 comic book featuring Batman's debut sold for $75,000 US more at an auction in Dallas.
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Okay, there's folks out there with way too much money.
Time to propose a rich-persons tax on frivolous or downright stupid purchases. Call it a luxury tax and apply it to anything worth more than some ludicrous amount paid for something that simply does not contain that value. Sort of like, "if they're willing to pay X dollars for that, then double it and take the difference."
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