kybearfuzz: (GST Nov 2011)
kybearfuzz ([personal profile] kybearfuzz) wrote2011-12-01 08:42 am

GST, Action Comics, etc.

It is Thursday. Only one day more after today before "Sleeping in Saturday."

Green Shirt ThursdayIt's also Green Shirt Thursday! I've posted this shirt before, but there is only so much greenery in the closet, even if it is my favorite color.

Some odds & ends:

A near mint-condition of Action Comics #1 sold for over $2 million at auction yesterday. It's the first appearance of Superman and only about a 100 copies are known to still exist and very few in such good condition. My family often asks me if I would sell that comic if I owned it. Hell yeah! While it would be awesome to have such a comic, I recognize that I could do a lot with that kind of cash. And I could buy a reprint to read the story. Trivia Question: What other golden-age hero (with ties to a current heroine) also made his first appearance in this issue?

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I was watching an independent horror flick on Netflix last night called Victim (Warning - movie poster is NWS). It's the story of a guy who gets abducted by a crazed scientist and his brutish assistant and experimented on for a very disturbing purpose. It was actually an interesting movie, not great but good enough to pass the time. The burly, goateed assistant is who caught my eye. He never speaks during the movie, is shaved bald with a graying mustache and thick goatee, and has a like pro-wrestler build. He's played by Irish actor Brendan Kelly, who played hairy-chested Mike in a really bad syndicated action show from the 1990's called "Acapulco H.E.A.T." He's aging REALLY well :)
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A coworker paid me a great compliment yesterday. He's going overseas for the first time for work this weekend and he stopped by to ask me questions on how to do certain things on this sort of trip. We talked for probably a half-hour and I gave him some things to ease things along, based on my experience. Before he left, he told me, "You know, you'd make a really great teacher!" I'm flattered. :)

Happy Green Shirt Thursday, y'all!

[identity profile] barak.livejournal.com 2011-12-01 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yum, Brendan Kelly was the only thing particularly good about the final season of Oz...

[identity profile] kybearfuzz.livejournal.com 2011-12-01 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Now you make me want to watch the last season of Oz :)

[identity profile] barak.livejournal.com 2011-12-01 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure you can find clips of him instead of wading through the entire season. He was only on like, four episodes.

[identity profile] kybearfuzz.livejournal.com 2011-12-01 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I will have to look indeed :)

[identity profile] prisoncitybear.livejournal.com 2011-12-01 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Brendan... sigh, so hot. So married.
And yeah, Oz. We kept hoping for full frontal but never got it.
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[identity profile] kybearfuzz.livejournal.com 2011-12-01 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Married with four kids!

I'd not hold that against him. And I'd take whatever he was willing to show :)

[identity profile] badgerpdx.livejournal.com 2011-12-01 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Very handsome photo of you. I'd date you in a shot.

[identity profile] kybearfuzz.livejournal.com 2011-12-01 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
And I'd accept that date :)

Reprints make great reading copies!

[identity profile] coryblank.livejournal.com 2011-12-01 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd be more than willing to auction of a near-mint copy of Action Comics #1 as well. I'm not getting any younger and a cool $2.16 mil would put my partners and I in a good place. :)

And to answer your trivia question, Zatara (Zatanna Zatara's father) also made his first appearance in Action Comics #1. Kal-El's story only took up thirteen pages of the issue.

Re: Reprints make great reading copies!

[identity profile] kybearfuzz.livejournal.com 2011-12-01 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, comic nerdy bears are deh sexie! :)