{"id":5113,"date":"2011-04-26T16:14:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2011-04-26T19:57:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T23:57:51","slug":"nicolas-cages-superman-action-1-found-after-being-stolen-in-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/nicolas-cages-superman-action-1-found-after-being-stolen-in-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Cage&#8217;s Superman Action #1 found after being stolen in 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SMComics1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5114\" title=\"SMComics1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SMComics1-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SMComics1-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SMComics1-760x1024.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SMComics1.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>A very rare <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Action_Comics\" target=\"_blank\">Superman Action #1<\/a><\/em> comic book stolen from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000115\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Nicolas Cage&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>California home in 2000,\u00a0has been found in a storage facility in\u00a0San Fernando Valley, CA\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Cage, who was to star in the never made 1990&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/#!5364772\/the-nic-cagetim-burton-superman-that-never-was\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Burton\u00a0version of\u00a0Superman<\/a><\/em>, purchased the comic from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicconnect.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Stephen Fishler<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, founder of <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropoliscomics.com\/bios.php\" target=\"_blank\">New York&#8217;s Metropolis Collectibles<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0comic, worth an estimated\u00a0$1-$1.5 million dollars,\u00a0came to\u00a0light when a man who wished to remain anonymous, purchased the contents of\u00a0a storage unit from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanauctioneers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>American Auctioneers<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>located in Riverside CA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unsure of the comics value, the man asked\u00a0<em>American Auctioneers<\/em> co-owner <em>Dan Dotson<\/em> for his help. <em>Mr. Dotson<\/em> then contacted collector\u00a0<em>Mark Balelo<\/em>, who\u00a0sent photos of the comic\u00a0to <em>Fishler<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fishler flew to California last Wednesday\u00a0and authenticated the comic book\u00a0 during a meeting with the owner, <em>Balelo,<\/em> and <em>LAPD Art Theft Detail Detective<\/em>, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/2009-04-23\/la-vida\/art-cop-confidential\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Hrycyk<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, who is\u00a0investigating\u00a0the theft.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>*All information for this story was garned by\u00a0various news sources on the web.\u00a0Mainly the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2011\/apr\/10\/simi-man-helps-recover-1-million-comic-book-from\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Ventura County Star<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>&amp;<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.nydailynews.com\/2011-04-11\/gossip\/29426650_1_comic-book-metropolis-collectibles-stephen-fishler\" target=\"_blank\">The New Daily News<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Don&#8217;t forget, be sure to read about this hours, if not days later&#8230;elsewhere \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<iframe id=\"basic_facebook_social_plugins_likebutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moviepropcollectors.com%2Fmagazine%2Fnicolas-cages-superman-action-1-found-after-being-stolen-in-2000%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:px; height:25px\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A very rare Superman Action #1 comic book stolen from Nicolas Cage&#8217;s California home in 2000,\u00a0has been found in a storage facility in\u00a0San Fernando Valley, CA\u00a0. Cage, who was to star in the never made 1990&#8217;s\u00a0Tim Burton\u00a0version of\u00a0Superman, purchased the comic from\u00a0Stephen Fishler, founder of New York&#8217;s Metropolis Collectibles. The\u00a0comic, worth an estimated\u00a0$1-$1.5 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5122,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/5122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}