Three Men and a Comic Book

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Plot

Bart attends a comic book convention and finds the first issue of Radioactive Man at the Android's Dungeon sale table for $100. He doesn't have enough money in his own allowance and his parents refuse to give Bart extra money. So Bart turns to Mrs. Glick, who has some rather unsavory chores around the house that he can do, but she only gives him 50 cents for his hard work. Bart returns to the comic book store, only with a few cents extra, and runs into Milhouse and Martin. He talks them into pooling their money and buying the first Radioactive Man Comic from Comic Book Guy. None of them want to let the comic book out of their sights and decide to spend the night together in Bart's treehouse. As a storm approaches, Martin devises a plan so that the three boys have equal access to the comic. As he attempts to leave with the comic, Bart stops him. Bart gets progressively more paranoid and becomes convinced that the other two are conspiring against him.

Eventually, each boy is at each other's throat. When Martin gets up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, Bart thinks he plans on stealing the comic book and subsequently ties him up. Meanwhile a storm is raging outside. Milhouse falls out of the treehouse as a gust of wind takes hold of the comic so that it flies towards the entrance. Bart reaches out to grab Milhouse by the hand. He is forced to decide between Milhouse and the comic. After mulling over his options, Bart chooses Milhouse and pulls him up into the treehouse. The comic flies out the door and is zapped by lightning, and shredded by Santa's Little Helper.

The next morning, the three boys reflect on how their inability to share lead to the destruction of the comic book. However, they never noticed that the final panel was was not shredded and was peacefully being a nest mat for a mother bird.

Info

• Comic Book Guy's first appearance
• First discovery of Radioactive Man's freak accident
• Otto's idea for a comic book (Busman, a man who drives a bus by day and fights vampires by night) was made into a comic in the Simpsons Comics

Appearances

Characters

• Homer Simpson
• Marge Simpson
• Bart Simpson
• Lisa Simpson
• Maggie Simpson
• Radioactive Man (character)
• Comic Book Guy
• Jimbo Jones
• Professor Frink
• Joe Quimby
• Martin Prince
• Otto Mann
• Milhouse Van Houten
• Fallout Boy
• Nelson Muntz
• Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
• Sam and Larry
• Barney Gumble
• Eddie and Lou
• Mrs. Glick
• Santa's Little Helper

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Bart Gets an "F" • Simpson and Delilah • Treehouse of Horror • Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish • Dancin' Homer • Dead Putting Society • Bart vs. Thanksgiving • Bart the Daredevil • Itchy & Scratchy & Marge • Bart Gets Hit by a Car • One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish • The Way We Was • Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment • Principal Charming • Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? • Bart's Dog Gets an "F" • Old Money • Brush with Greatness • Lisa's Substitute • The War of the Simpsons • Three Men and a Comic Book • Blood Feud

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