Do you like leather jackets? Do you want to dress like actor Eric Martsolf from Smallville? Do you have $178? If you answered yes to all three of those questions, Sky-Seller.com might be the site for you!

Or maybe you'd prefer to save $3 and order from LeatherJackets.com:

Hmm. That image looks awfully familiar. Where have I seen that before? Oh, yes, I remember now:

That's thomdave wearing the costume he had made for Comic-Con 2011. At the time, he credited the costume to Abby Polakow (of Cape & Cowl Creations).

Sky-Seller.com is registered to a private company in Panama. LeatherJackets.com is registered to an apparel company in San Francisco (B.L.K. International) which claims to have been in business for 20 years. If you look closely, you'll see that the LeatherJackets image is a poorly retouched version of the Sky-Seller image (you can clearly see the use of the clone tool to cover where the "Sky-Seller.com" watermark has been removed).

So Sky-Seller "borrowed" and retouched the image from thomdave's original forum post, and LeatherJackets "borrowed" that image and retouched it. Neither of them appear to have anything to do with Polakow, who has her own craft store on etsy.com.

The moral of today's post, boys and girls, is before you trust someone with your $175, you might want to do a bit of homework. Anyone who takes credit for someone else's work might not be the most trustworthy vendor.

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Etsy is a great place to get handmade gear inspired by comic books. Take, for example, this sleep mask:

That's only $10 from TheGeekForge. It's just one of the many pieces they make. (Their Adam West Batman sleep mask is a thing of beauty!) A portion of their proceeds go to the Hero Initiative, so you know you can rest easy.

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Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and if you're still looking for something special for the super heroine in your life, consider these adorable hair bows.

These alligator-clip Blue Beetle/Booster Gold bows were handmade by dexlarprice. They can be had for just $6 on etsy.com. What a deal!

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It might seem a little early for a Christmas post, but it's not. At least not when we're talking about hand-painted Booster Gold Christmas ornaments.

Those ornaments were created by ThePerfectCup, who also makes a Blue Beetle ornament (for the reasonable price of just $15). These ornaments can take up to a month to paint and ship, so if you'd like to see a little Blue and Gold on your tree this year, visit ThePerfectCup on etsy.com today.

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It's not often I have the opportunity to showcase Booster Gold fan art that you can buy, but artist Jonathan Reyes is selling this minimalist poster via Etsy.com:

If you buy from JRLuna's Etsy.com store before the end of March and use the coupon code "MARCH2K15", you can save 20%. That's a pretty good deal on such a sweet piece of art.

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