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DINNER SPECIAL BREAI a Feu Bacon & 2 eggs. “™ Comic sales grow with adult buyers KARL MALDEN nervous about travel Travel worries Malden NASHVILLE, TENN. (AP) Actor Karl Malden says ‘he's more nervous about travelling since film. ing a television drama about a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists. You think twice before you say And I In this business you want to travel,” he said. I'm in, you travel an awful lot Malden, 72, who flew to Australia to-film_the TV The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro, has been acting movie than 50 years. He has TV series Streets of for more appeared in the San Francisco and the ‘movies Patton and Nut The movie about’ the 1985 hi jacking of an Italian eruise ship is to be_broadeast Feb. 13. Hashbrowns & toast itn dressing 7 q « NEW YORK (REUTER) American adults are taking Mickey Mouse, Superman, Batman — and even his late sidekick Robin’— very seriously. Grownups are flocking to book bidding record prices for animation art at auctions and even debating the literary merits of the Man of Steel. More adult comies, a thirst for collectibles, film hits like Who Framed Roger Rabbit we se and major birthdays for such aged favorites as Mickey on Superman, Batman and Pogo are boosting sales for anything animated The hottest items are from the 1930s and ‘40s, says Don Thompson, co-editor of the Comic Buyers Guide weekly newspaper. He-notes certain early issues of Superman, which sold for 10 cents apiece in 1938, were worth close to $30,000 US when the caped crime-fighter turned 50 last June. POGO RETURNS Meanwhile, newspapers are snapping up rights to print the comic strip as the furry, dwelling possum reappears after a 15-year absence to mark the 40th anniversary of his newspaper debut. And a painting of Mickey Mouse, who just celebrated his 60th birthday November for more than double the previous record price for animation art. The painting, which. provided one frame of a 1934 Walt Disney film, fetched $120,000 US. adults with the But none of these characters can outdo Batman. urope and Asi The hooded-hero of Gotham City, reincarnated epted as legi 50-year-old with a pot belly, has captured the sympathies of many middle-aged men Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, catapulted comics to mainstfeam America. Begun as a DC Comics , it became so popular it was picked up by biggest commercial publishers in the United Warner Books, and sold as a single edition at al bookstores. Fans are now so caught-up in Batman's doings that DC Comies felt compelled to take an opinion poll before Industry youngsters at th New York City comic stores, customers,"* said themes in fiction e along with Forbidden Plane One-custom store's best-selle timely and the illustrations and Finding Pogo swamp said California publis! foreign comies. i classroom,” “There's an asa said the fact t respectability to “graphic nov iow we're series in 19 one of th States, gene of story-telling Otterberg. I'm sure thi ROBIN BLASTED In a tight race, some 10,000 fans voted by telep! shone now,” said John Association Ine. reports sold at an auction in 4% of which is junk,” were the juvenile themes of American comics aimed at bookstores as well as show~-adults~rapidly replacing e comics stand, and a stroll through any comie book store confirms this. MOSTLY ME! “I'd say kids now make up less than 10 per cent of the 4 Kevin McDonald, a store manager at Forbidden Planet where business is booming. “Mostly men from about teens tolate 40s educated, the réwd,” said McDonald. It's definitely a popular culture thing, a hit with the baby boomers who like to them,” see that Batman's aging right said another staff member at pt er picked up a copy of X-MEN, the r, and told a reporter: “The themes are writing’s. excellent now The plots have gotten better, too.” ot all experts agree »phisticated reading in comic books stores is like trying to find Einstein in a kindergarten Gary Groth of Fantagraphics, a small hing company that prints domestie and in book and magazine form. 7 eS JUVENILE ‘enormous flush of material, 98 per cent said Groth, contrasting what.he said more mature themes of comics from ia, where the genre has long béen timate reading for adults. Keith Otterberg, senior publicist at Warner Books, hat comic series were sold at specialty stores had brought ihe genre he and many others call the now Seeing adult themes and artwork by nowned artists so it's become a whole different type in between a novel and cinema,” sai ere are still some high-brow snobs who bur essentially they re accepted Allison of the American Booksellers ¢ a Bundy Tuesday SEATTLE (AP) — Although Ted Bundy recently admitted to killing 23 women, an, investigator said there were crimes the killer wouldn't talk about and secrets he took to the electric chair The 42-year-old Bundy was convicted of murder- three people in Florida and was executed ed killing 23 other women . but he left a legacy of ration for those who suspect. he killed many more FBI officials said years ago he might be implicated in 36 slayings throughout the U.S. West Robert Keppel, an investigator for the Washing ton state attorney general, said the Jaw student dropout from Tacoma” was~unwitling to” talk about some cases that gave him “painful memories.” Bundy balked at confessing to deaths before 1973 “That seemed to be where he drew the line,”’ said Keppel, who spent about two hours during the weekend extracting confessions from a shakén, tearful Bundy Keppel said- Bundy denied kidnapping and killing eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr in 1961, when Bundy would have been 14, But the way Bundy talked about that crime left doubt about whether he might have been responsible, Keppel said. Ann Marie disappeared from her parents’ Tacoma home — near where Bundy’s family lived — during an early morning rainstorm. No clue to her fate has ever been found. executed Beverly Burr said Tuesday she feels strongly that, Bunday was responsible for her daughter's disappearance, but added: “‘if it was Bundy, then there's no way we're going to find ouf. We can't do much, We're helpless."* NO SPECIFICS Bundy's confessions iticlided deaths to which he had not been, linked before, such as two in Idaho, He did not give specifics on at least 10 others in. which he was a suspect. “I don't think we have even scratched the "’ Sheriff Pete Hayward of Salt County, Utah, said after the execution “Somewhere there is someone Bundy has told the whole story to."" Bundy confessed to eight Utah killings, but because he identified only two victims there, authorities said many cases may never be solved Investigators said Bundy would not when asked about his connection to two Utah deaths in which he is a suspect. One is the strangulation and beating death of Laura Anne Aime, 17, of Salem, Utah, in October of 1974 But theré was no doubt Tuesday in the mind of her mother that Bundy killed her child “He needed to die very badly, hirlene Aime said, but she conceded the last minutes of waiting for his execution were horrible. answer rolled over the bank at the south end of the dam The driver was taken to Castlegar and District hospital with unspecified injuries. The.RCMP are still investigating the crash ROLLED TO REST . . . This 1987 Chevrolet Blazer was involved in a single-vehicle accident out by the Keenleyside dam Monday. The truck was travelling south when it skidded out of control and Costews Photo by Brendan Nagle “It made me feel guilty. Despite all the things he did to my daughter and all the other girls. 1 started to think, ‘How. low am I, waiting for a man to die? Bundy was. executed for the 1978 rape and murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach’ of Lake City, Fla. He was also convicted of killing two women in 1978 at a Florida State University sorority house. His gush of confessions in the four days before his electrocution did not include those deaths. PCB controls announced VICTORIA (CP) The Environ Ministry has announced new controls that are federal wasteS must be listed on a special inventory of stored PCBs metit registry. All shipments must be ac Federal and provincial environ ment ministers decided in September of PCBs in Canada years and to tighten regulations for storage of the toxic chemical equal to commpanied by storage of chlorinated biphenyls and the ment of special wastes. a registration. num standards on_ the poly- ber to end the use ship: The controls follow an announce- within _ five ment last September that the B.C government would inspect all storage sites containing more than 100 litres The meeting in Ottawa followed an of PCBs. Aug. 23 fire at a warehouse in $t- British Columbia has 279 PCB Basile-le-Grand near Montreal that storage sites containing more than PCBS, which have been 282,000 litres, according to a national _ linked to cancer. “The only thing I can say is’ thank God, it's finally over,’ said Vivian Rancourt of LaConner the whose 18-year-old daughter, . Susan, disappeared April 17, 1974. 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