{"id":5203,"date":"2010-10-09T21:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T01:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2012-01-18T21:14:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T02:14:23","slug":"comics-books-guest-star-on-law-order-svu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/09\/comics-books-guest-star-on-law-order-svu\/","title":{"rendered":"Comics books guest star on Law & Order: SVU<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was watching the September 22 episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit<\/i> earlier this week—though describing what I was doing as “watching” may be overstating the case. I really don’t have the time to focus my attention on the TV and literally<\/i> watch. Except for some special programs that are near and dear to my heart, such as Breaking Bad<\/i> or Mad Men<\/i> (or Deadwood<\/i> or The Wire<\/i> or Treme<\/i>), I tend to treat TV like radio, and simply have the set on in the evenings while I continue to work, work, work.<\/p>\n

Anyway, at one point in the episode, the detectives visit a foster home and come across a very special guest star—the stack of comics pictured below.<\/p>\n

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Sorry I couldn’t grab a crisper shot off the screen!<\/p>\n

I recognize the comic at the top of the pile as being The Eternals<\/i> #1<\/a> from October 1985, but I can’t identify any of the others by the little we see of their covers.<\/p>\n

But a few questions come to mind.<\/p>\n

1) How much does that 25-year-old premiere issue go for these days? Can someone check a price guide for me? Which leads into the next question …<\/p>\n

2) If that comic turns out to be expensive, is it a comic that a little kid, maybe 8 or 10 years old, living in a group home with other kids in 2010, could possibly afford to own? That is, does it make sense in terms of the story, or did a set dresser grab a pricey comic without thinking?<\/p>\n

3) Finally—anyone recognize any of the other comics sticking out of the stack?<\/p>\n

As you can tell, whenever I see comics appear in the context of a TV show, I start over-thinking it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was watching the September 22 episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit earlier this week—though describing what I was doing as “watching” may be overstating the case. I really don’t have the time to focus my attention on the TV and literally watch. Except for some special programs that are near and dear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,20],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}