LONDON (AP).- One of Margaret Thatcher’s famous handbags fetched 25,000 pounds ($39,953) at a London charity auction Monday. The boxy black leather Asprey bag, owned by the former British prime minister for more than 30 years, was sold to a private bu…
Spider-Man’s Debut Comic Sells for $1.1 Million
By: Matt Moore, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP)- A comic collector has been caught in Spider-Man’s web, paying $1.1 million for a near-mint copy of “Amazing Fantasy” No. 15 that features the wall-crawler’s debut. The issue, first published in 1962,…
Archive of WW II Codebreaker Alan Turing Preserved by National Heritage Memorial Fund
LONDON (AP).- Papers relating to codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing will go to a British museum after the National Heritage Memorial Fund stepped in to help buy them for the nation. The government-backed fund said Friday it had donated more t…
Archive of World War II Codebreaker Alan Turing Preserved by National Heritage Memorial Fund
LONDON (AP).- Papers relating to codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing will go to a British museum after the National Heritage Memorial Fund stepped in to help buy them for the nation. The government-backed fund said Friday it had donated more t…