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Truth, Justice, and the American Way $408,000
Action Comics #1, published by DC Comics is, “The most important comic book ever published,” according to leading comic book pricing authority, Overstreet. Why? It’s the first appearance of Superman, and many say, the book that started the Golden Age
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‘We Shot Them Down Like Dogs’
On August 30, 1813, a war party of 750 enraged American Indian warriors attacked a haphazard stockade known as Fort Mims in the south western corner of present-day Alabama, 50 miles from Mobile. After killing most of the 146 defending militiamen, the
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Beer City’s Blue Ribbon Mansion
FREDERICK PABST was captain of a Great Lakes steamer when Maria Best came aboard his ship and caught his attention. He started courting her, the daughter of the owner of Milwaukee’s Phillip Best Beer Company, and they married in 1862. It didn’t take

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