Selling Superman | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer | dG1faDZwN0FnNTlxV0E
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00:00I was too busy raising my kids to realize what was happening.
00:07Certain rooms in the house were off limits.
00:10I would go over and you'd see like 30 boxes covered with a sheet.
00:13And I was like, what's that? He's like, it's nothing.
00:15We don't tell anybody about this.
00:18That was it for 40 years.
00:20I had to escape. I remember seeing a therapist and I finally let it out.
00:24My husband has comics.
00:30My father got the first solo issue of Superman from 1939.
00:34It was locked away for decades.
00:36He found out that was the second nicest copy of that book on the planet.
00:40That book could easily go for $3 to $4 million.
00:45It inherited over a million collectibles.
00:48What's that box value then?
00:50$80,000 to $90,000.
00:52Just right here.
00:55My father had Asperger's, but not knowing it caused a lot of friction.
00:59It was like ultimate fixation and hoarding.
01:02He kept collecting and needed more space and more space and more space.
01:05You have no idea how oppressive he can be.
01:08He was constantly neurotic about the security of the collection.
01:11We have each of them humidity controlled, climate controlled, multiple layers of security.
01:15He would have thought that was cool.
01:17I'm sure his father loved him, but I don't know if Darren truly felt it.
01:20Nothing Darren did was ever good enough.
01:22He made life livable, but not worth living.
01:24I divorced. I said, I don't want any part of them.
01:26If I wasn't around, there would be a big dumpster outside and she would just throw them in.
01:30Actually, she'd recycle.
01:33We have no idea what's in that box.
01:36Oh wow, I need that.
01:38Ah, okay.
01:39Yeah, I need that too.
01:40Where do we go from here? That's the question, right?
01:43Comics are super valuable and they're booming.
01:46Why Hollywood?
01:48We're just still seeing the rise of the comics.
01:49Who would pay this much money for such a book? It's fascinating.
01:54I'd sell it.
01:55If you want to give me three and a half million dollars for that comic, buh-bye.
01:59There is a little bit of responsibility to make sure some of this stuff is preserved.
02:02This stuff survived world wars, depressions, cultural differences, racial realizations, women's rights.
02:08Everything is reflected in these stories.
02:12Wow.
02:13I want to work with people that want to be involved in sharing it.
02:16We're going to put so many of these books in the right hands that people are going to lose their shit.
02:22It would be amazing to have some of these key books end up with like the biggest fan of Superman or the biggest fan of Batman.
02:29How do we find those people?
02:30Clearly, trust is a huge thing.
02:32Well, what if we pick them up and blindfold them?
02:34If I say something offensive, it will be cut out, right?
02:38It'll be very interesting the kind of people that we deal with along the way
02:41and what their intentions are for acquiring some of these collectibles.
02:45One of my buddies came by, he saw the books at the Hatchback and he's like, oh, Hatchback comics.
02:50Kidding the dad, I guess. I'm the Hatchback dad.
02:55The stuff in here is worthy of being in a safe like this.
02:59What? Are you kidding me?
03:01Amazing Spider-Man 101, 9.8.
03:03There's four copies of it there.
03:04You need a new safe.
03:05This is unbelievable.
03:08I did almost cry, not going to lie.
03:11I never got to look at one of those while he was alive.
03:14And I really wanted to.
03:17You'll remember this moment probably for the rest of your lives.
03:20Father and son.
03:22We wanted to create a family experience.
03:24How it should have been.
03:25We didn't know we had these two until you just witnessed it.
03:28Having that excuse to get back together and go on a treasure hunt.
03:32What an amazing gift that is.
03:34I wish my dad was here to see that.
03:36Superman relies so heavily on the father-son relationship on so many levels.
03:40It's not about the actual book, it's about what it means.
03:43What do you do? Would you sell it?
03:45It's the top of the mountain.
03:46I couldn't see it and go with something like that.
03:48I just don't want to let my father down.
03:49With this collection, we're coming out.
03:51I wouldn't sell it.
03:52I would probably sell it.
03:53You just can't.
03:54What does that mean?
03:56I guess that's what we're going to find out on this journey.
04:04He was such a difficult prick, man.
04:07But, I mean, I did love him.