COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Superman: The Man of Steel 19 Signature
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 2551929008
Owner: Iconic1s

SET DETAILS

Custom Sets: Iconic1s Custom Doomsday Set!
Sets Competing: This comic is not competing in any sets.
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

For this book, I have shown both the direct and newsstand editions in the gallery even though I did not intentionally set out to own both. A Universal 9.8 direct edition was one of my original books in this set. I had that for awhile when the 9.8 newsstand edition came up for sale really cheap so I figured why not have both to show. In general, I don't care whether a book is a direct or newsstand edition when I am hunting it down though. I am happy to pay whatever I think a book is worth, regardless of the type of edition. If all things were equal though I would go for the direct edition because I enjoy the text in the boxes much more than I do the bar code. I enjoy these books not only for the story inside, but also for their appearance and in my opinion the direct editions are just much more appealing to look at. To me, the bar code gives the cover a cold feeling whereas the direct edition has life. I would never set out specifically to find any newsstand book. This is why I created my larger Custom Set... CGC decided to make newsstand books variants... to me that was just a way to drum up business and I wanted no part of it! It was also completely unfair to those of us that never were and never will be newsstand guys... I wasn't about to start collecting something I don't love solely for the Registry. Both covers are shown here so you can judge for yourself.

I upgraded my first 9.8 copy to this Signature Series book when my set was already at 100 percent. This book was eventually replaced in my competitive set by the lone 9.9 copy!


 
 
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