For This Is the Day... That a Superman Died
Superman: The Man of Steel 19 Second Printing
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Superman: The Man of Steel 19 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1993232015
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Owner:
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Iconic1s
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
I got really lucky finding this book!
I won it on eBay already graded at 9.8 for only $25.00. This was pretty amazing because at the time there were only two 9.8 Universal Label and one Signature Series 9.8 in the census. I watched this all week thinking that someone was going to snipe it. I ended up being the only bidder! I guess sometimes the timing is just right and everyone else is either busy or looking for something else at the time. This buy almost felt too good to be true so I was really happy when it showed up at my door. Coincidentally, this was from the same seller that I later bought the lone 9.8 Action Comics 684 second printing from. If they took any loss on this book I think they made up for it on the AC sale.
The book in the second image slot is a reprint of Superman: The Man of Steel 19 from 2005. This book was included with the Mattel Doomsday action figure as it says on the label, but it also came with the Superman figure with the red and black chest symbol from the same line. I submitted three of these myself and received two 9.6’s and a 9.0 before buying the copy you see here from the owner of the ‘NO ONE CAN KILL SUPERMAN!’ collection. One of the 9.6’s was from my original Doomsday action figure that I opened just to submit this book! I’m glad the owner of this copy still had it when all my other attempts had failed at returning a 9.8. This book was a member of the competitive Set Type when I started my set, as was the Platinum TPB, but we agreed that it should be removed as it was a reprint that was not from the original era of these books, but rather much later; the cover is also completely different… I still love having it in my collection and am glad I can display it here! Oddly enough, as CGC started allowing newsstand variants and such into competitive sets we started to see much later reprints of books creep into sets... such a slippery slope, which ruins the spirit of the registry in my opinion!
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