Who are Invincible Man and Nifty Boy?
Why does their first issue have a $100 cover price?
What is that buzzing sound in your head you get after reading the comic book?

Invincible Man is the latest creation of Bob Burden, the writer/artist of comic cult favorite Flaming Carrot Comics, the worlds first surrealist superhero.

"Invincible Man is a rather generic superhero." explains Burden, "His powers are flying, hitting and geography."
"He receives his powers from BUG COMMAND, a hierarchy of benign super insects with mysterious ways, extraordinary mental powers and a three picture deal with HBO. This grand council of insects live in the basement of the Pentagon and winters in a West Palm Beach coke machine. To initialize his powers, Invincible Man drinks this concoction called Bo-Bo-Pop. The formula is directed to him by Bug Command and the top secret, key ingredient is a sparkling drop of retsin. Oops, I guess it's not secret anymore."

Invincible Man is a strange, wacky send up of the superhero genre. In one scene, Invincible Man and Nifty Boy go to a villain's place, but the villain is not home so they mess up his apartment, throwing tax receipts all over and taking bites out of all the cookies in his cookie jar.
In future episodes, you will find Invincible Man battling a flying golf course, inventing a new, tasty but disgusting grey baloney and using a handy "stumbling block" from his utility belt to trip up fleeing gangsters. With an odd assortment of allies such as Professor Freak, The Yodeling Odeo and Daniel Baboon the Orangutan Frontiersman, he has no problem dealing with villains like Ali Baba and the Forty Housewives, Crocodile Ghandi, Gunsel Adams and Pretty Boy Freud.

Like the Mysterymen, which has now been optioned by Universal Pictures, Invincible Man is a spin-off from Flaming Carrot Comics. Though it has yet to reach the big screen, at one time Flaming Carrot was considered to be the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and was optioned by the Turtle people. It may have been just too far out there to make it. A second string, blue collar, Mill town super hero, Flaming Carrot's wildly creative but disturbing stories were a cult hit on the comic book circuit. At it's zenith, Flaming Carrot was a hot book with a strong cult following. It even outsold Superman in the comic shops one month, an impressive feat for a black and white comic.

How do you market a comic with a $100 cover price?
"Give it away!" says Burden, the creator, "We are giving one copy of the Invincible Man comic away free with every three copies of The Flaming Carrot's Greatest Hits Album ordered by the shops. Then the plates will be destroyed and no more will be printed. It's a promotional incentive. Will the The $100 Invincible Man comic book ever be worth $100? Who cares. I just thought it would fun to put out a hundred dollar comic book and if some speculator gets mad at me after he reads it, so much the better. I'd like to meet someone who paid a hundred dollars for a comic book about a guy that gets all his orders from Bug Command."

The comic book is actually meant to be used by comic shop retailers as a marketing tool and is meant to be given away or raffled off. And it is strictly a collector's item because the Invincible Man story is going to be printed in the very same volume it is promoting; Flaming Carrot's Greatest Hits. "I look at it as an artistic statement on the value placed on collectors items. I currently have a story, a screenplay on the boards about art collectors and their unscrupulous agents that are after Van Gogh's ear. The one he cut off. It's a relic. All these guys are fighting and killing each other over this ridiculous, shriveled, dried up ear in a box because some collector will pay a million dollars for it."