Ron Rooney and the Million Dollar Comic

by Susan Schade, Jon Buller

Illustrated in black-and-white. When Ron Rooney happens upon a page torn from a collector's guide that tells him Larry the Lizard No. 1 is worth $1,250,000, he's ecstatic. He actually owns a copy! He races home, only to discover that his little sister has put the comic book in her class's space capsule on its way to Mars. But all's not lost yet. Maybe Harold Fishbone, the shrewd fanboy, has a copy and would be willing to part with it for a couple of dollars. All eyes are on the prize as readers follow Ron on a madcap race against a fellow comic collector and a strange man from the future. It's every comic-lover's dream come true...or is it?  

62 pages, Paperback

First published August 13, 1996

About the author

Susan Schade is the author of over forty children's books, including the Fog Mound series, written in collaboration with her husband, Jon Buller. She lives in Lyme, Connecticut.

Reviews

[Lindsay Johnson]

Ron Rooney and the Million-Dollar Comic by Jon Buller and Susan Schade is a fantasy/science fiction book because it includes time travel. Ron Rooney loves reading comic books. He spends a lot of time in the comic book store looking for comic books to read. One Saturday when he is in the store, a fanboy collector who doesn’t actually read comic books but collects the first edition of them, Harold Fishbone, comes into the store looking for first editions. Ron Rooney doesn’t like Harold Fishbone because he doesn’t read the comics, just stores them in plastic bags. Harold leaves the comic books store and then in walks another man with cool shoes. He’s looking for the first edition of Larry the Lizard, but the stores no longer has it. The man leaves a paper and walks out of the store, and the owner asks Ron to go get him to let him know he left it there, but before Ron got to him, he had disappeared. He looks at the paper the man left and sees that it is dated 2027 and it states the Larry the Lizard comic book is worth $1,250,000. Ron decides that he needs that comic book and he know that Harold would have it, so he calls Harold and starts devising a plan to get the book. I would incorporate this book in my classroom by putting it in my classroom library for students to choose to read for independent reading.