Something's Fishy! April Fool's Day Postcards

Don't let yourself get "fished in" tomorrow!

In France, it's called APRIL FISH DAY, because young naive fish are easily caught. They had some lovely, and odd, postcards in the early 1900's.

Here are a few for your amusement and entertainment.










HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY!!


I wanted to put a little something about why we have the April Fool's Day tradition, and found out that no one's quite sure why, and rather than repeat all the conjecture, here's a couple of links: Wikipedia's always informative, and so is Info Please.

A good friend sent this clipping - just click on it to read it.

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Price Guides Now in E-Books

The future of publishing is NOW

This is a great idea, long overdue: Collector Books is listing some of their out-of-print price guides as E-books. Just a few to start, but more to come. And the price is right -- just $10.00.

Here's the link:

http://www.collectorbooks.com/items/?type=category&category=DIGITAL%20DOWNLOADS

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Irish you a Happy St. Paddy's Day !!

Here's some antique postcards that celebrate the day...




You can click on each card to see a bigger view.

Irish you a Happy St. Paddy's Day !!!!

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Batman Beats Superman

Batman Beats Superman - #1 Batman Comic Book Sells for Over 1 Million Dollars

Heritage Auctions did it -- they sold the comic book with the first appearance of BATMAN for over a million dollars! That beats the recent record sale price for a comic book set by a sale of the #1 Superman.

Here's a link to LISTEN to the auction as the comic book sets a new record -- auction audio of Detective Comics #27!

See the auction listing here.

The winning bid was a hammer price of $900,000 ($1,075,500 with Buyer's Premium), and the auctioneer was Eric Thomas of Heritage.
This audio is © 2010 Heritage Auction Galleries, and all rights are reserved.

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