Bucky Shot, No Golden Girl for Tomio
I know. It seems like I never win anything! Yesterday, the listing for the only item I was watching on Comiclink’s E-Better Auctions ended. From my perspective, the E-Better field tends to be rather uninspiring (their Focused Auctions, however, are incredible and consistently record breaking) which only one listing grabbed me (usually none do). My interest in that listing itself was an extreme oddity from my general tendencies rules in collecting. There are a few condition and structural related issues that automatically make me pass on almost (say a literal 99.9%) any purchase of an item I’m interested in. These are hard rules, and while I can’t foresee flexibility in the future for any of the others, I gave into one yesterday.
Rare Batman Intro
“This is probably the most desirable comic Heritage has ever auctioned”
That in itself is an incredible statement, as Heritage is a complete beast in the high end, publicly moved, collectible comic world. It isn’t carnival barking either, as we are talking an auction for the one of the two highest graded (by CGC) of Detective Comics#27 – the first appearance of Batman – on the planet. That doesn’t mean it’s the best copy, as that copy is regarded to be the Allentown copy owned by “The Dentist”–who also owns the best copy of Action Comics#1 (1st Superman) in the world, the Edgar Church copy (aka the Mile High Pedigree). There are also copies of TEC#27 in the Church and Reilly (also known as the San Francisco collection) that would probably grade better.
