A more innocent time
Check this out. Re: the final Silver Age X-Men comic.
On the letters page, an editorial announces that "the plain truth is that the magazine's sales don't warrant our continuing the title." Two inches below, the Statement of Ownership reports that the most recent issue had a total paid circulation of 199,571. How times have changed.Man. The highest-selling X-Men comic right now is Astonishing, and that has about an average of, I think, 130,000? And that's one of the highest-selling books in the entire industry.
posted by Jeff at 8:51 AM
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I was reading through "Superman in the 1960s" at Meltdown the other day, and there's a story where Superman gets some type of Super-cancer. Anyway, he's dying and as his last act, he flies into space and uses his X-Ray vision to burn the following sentence into the moon in giant letters that can be seen from Earth:
"Be good to each other and every man can be a Superman."
Now, that's touching. But here's where it gets funny. Underneath that sentence he writes:
Superman
(Clark Kent)
There's something about seeing (Clark Kent) written out like that -- by the man himself! -- that makes me laugh hard.
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