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Welcome to the WBZ book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich, more powerful than to

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look about him, able to leap
tall buildings at a single bound. Look

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up in the sky, it's a
burgeon. It's Superman's Yeah. Here's news

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about a different kind of book,
a comic book, one that just sold

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for millions. A copy of the
nineteen thirty eight Superman comic book called Action

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Comics Number One. Yes, it
recently sold for six million dollars. CGC,

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a third party grading service for pop
culture collectibles, says this is just

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one of seventy eight copies they've graded. Just two hundred thousand copies of Action

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Comics Number One were published in nineteen
thirty eight, telling the story of a

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little baby sent off to Earth from
a dying planet. He lands here and

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becomes Clark Kent, who, of
course becomes Superman. Without Superman and Action

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Comics Number One, the golden Age
of comic books might have taken a different

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turn, and that is the Book
Club. WBZ, Boston's news radio