Leonard's Lantern
Green Lantern 71
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Green Lantern 71 Universal
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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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Pedigree:
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Twin Cities
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Certification #:
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0915110010
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
I believe we have now owned three of the four 9.8s in the census and this Twin Cities copy is undoubtedly the nicest. The Twin Cities Collection was the product of Gary Dahlberg who spent his life carefully buying, reading and storing comic books away throughout the '60s and '70s, with aspirations to become a cartoonist one day. Sadly, he died in a fire in 2010, but to the astonishment of his family his collection was appraised at more than $1 million by Heritage, who auctioned the books in 2011. Consisting of mainly Marvel and DC, this accumulation has no identifying marks but yielded some of the highest grades of the early Marvel period with considerably high page quality. The collection ultimately brought over $2.4 million at auction.
We initially owned a non-pedigree 9.8 with OW/W pages, but then sold it to acquire the WP Oakland copy in the ComicConnect auction of June 12, 2019. I then swapped that copy for this Twin Cities copy in 2020. Normally, I just figure a 9.8 is a 9.8, but sometimes one possesses far more eye appeal, assuming the price to swap is not too great.
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