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1938 Superman Comic Sells For $1M
slasher999 writes in to note a new world record sale for a comic: an instance of Action Comics #1, 1938, sold for $1 million at auction. Both the buyer and the seller remain anonymous. This comic marked the first time a superhero went to work in a city, and the first time a man flew without mechanical aid.
Superman is a terrible hero. He has every major advantage you could ever need to defeat any form of villain on Earth, and because of that there is never any reasonable doubt that he can get through any situation.
Tied up? Super strength out.
Locked in a mile deep underground basement - fly / tunnel out.
Screwed up and someone you liked died - turn time backwards.
Need to stop missile - use the fricking laers in your eyes.
Someone sneaking up on you with a crowbar (as if it matters)? Super hearing!
He has one weakness, to an element that might as well be called Unobtainium, but for story reasons keeps appearing in the hands of villains who don't possess FTL or even the means to detect it...they just get really freaking lucky and get some!
Even if he gets real unlucky and fights Lex Luthor, who has some unob....I mean Kryptonite, and he's been suckered once again into standing right next to a box of it...he could call a friend to close the box, or maybe nuke the site and spread it all over. All the baddies die, he lives, and the unob^H^H^H^HKryptonite is dispursed enough to not matter.
There's simply no other situation he can punch, fricking laser, or fly his way out of.
Superman makes me want to root for the bad guys.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.