ABOUT BIZ WAVES

Biz Waves is a one-stop Web hub for business news and content from the South Bay region of Los Angeles County and beyond.

The primary contributor is:

Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

You can email Muhammed at dailybreeze.com


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Planet for Sale: Biz Casual Column

Here's Friday's weekly Business Casual Column. Enjoy.


Planet for sale. Price: $130,000
By Muhammed El-Hasan, Business Casual

At bedtime when I was 4 years old, I would dash from our living room into my bedroom, shouting Superman's catchphrase, "Up, up and away!" as I leapt into the air to fly around the apartment.

Actually, that last part happened only in my imagination. In reality, I would leap into the air and land on my bed.

Growing up, I was a huge fan of superheroes and the comic books where they lived. So when I recently learned that a local comic book store was for sale, I flew there to kick the proverbial super tires.

Third Planet Comics & Games, at 3631 Pacific Coast Highway in Torrance, can be mine for only $130,000.

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