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Justice League of America 85
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Justice League of America 85 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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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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0915169006
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
issue #85 is another JLA Giant, which in this case contains reprints of the stories from Issues #10 and #11. As was the case with Issue #58, there are no 9.8s of this one. Our WP 9.6 comes from the Twin Cities Collection. 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.
The book is currently tied with seven other copies atop the census as of June 2020.
2025 Update: There is now a 9.8 of this issue, knocking our book back into second place. The book emerged from CGC over this past year and was listed for sale in the Chat Boards. I did try to contact the alleged owner, but I am not sure if he actually owned the book or not? I won’t name him, as it’s a closed matter as far as I am concerned, but he was the biggest jerk of anyone I have ever encountered in 25 years of collecting. I am just thankful that he is not representative of the majority of collectors I have encountered. But it has made me rethink whether I even want to be on the Registry, as I can certainly see the benefits of staying totally anonymous.
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