A MAN is blissfully unaware that his wife has designated his prized collection of superhero comics as a source of heat this winter.
With energy bills rising dramatically despite the government price freeze, Helen Archer has decided husband Julian’s library of pristine Marvel and DC titles will be first in the fire.
Helen Archer said: “Julian has boxes of the things stored away doing nothing. He doesn’t even take them out of the plastic wrapping, for Christ’s sake, so what’s the bloody point?
“He says they’re incredibly valuable, but, unless he’s going to sell them, which he’s not, the only value they have is to keep the house warm this winter. We’ll be able to squeeze through an extra couple of weeks without turning the central heating on.
“I haven’t told him yet, because we’ve been here before. He went into a full on mega-sulk when we ran out of toilet paper early on in lockdown and I suggested that his copy of Batman: The Killing Joke looked like it was printed on high-quality, absorbent paper.
“He’ll put up a fight, of course. But I’ve got the leverage of the vintage Razzle collection which he doesn’t know I know about, so those comics will be ashes come January.”
