Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel

by Walter Mosley

“I can honestly say that I loved that man,” I rejoined. “He gave me his copy of Adventure Comics, number 247, I mean in almost mint condition.” “So?” she asked, just to wheedle me. “Is it worth a lotta money?” “Today it could get twenty thousand.” “Fo’a comic book?” “Yeah, but I’d never sell it. That was the first appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes. For me, that’s a piece of literary history.”