COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Green Lantern 15 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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Certification #:
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3956424005
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
issue #15 is only the second cover with Green Lantern's greatest arch-nemisis, Sinestro. In the lead story, Green Lantern becomes convinced that his old foe Sinestro is loose and attacking him from afar. But, when trailing him to the universe of Qward, he is lured into a world where everything but its inhabitants is colored yellow.
This is a tough book to find in high grade. For many years, we owned the Pacific Coast 9.4, which was the nicest example in existence. But a 9.6 emerged a few years ago and sold for about $20,000 in a very competitive auction. Sometimes early highest graded GLs go for nothing, while at other times the prices go crazy, like they did for that book. We fortunately were not the winner of that auction.
Well, as it has happened so often to us on the other side, the 9.6 #15 did not stay King for too long, as a second one emerged in 2022 and we were lucky enough to get it at less than 40% of the price of the first one. We acquired the book from the 1/14/2022 Heritage Auction.
2025 Update: And now there are three 9.6s, winner of that first auction, I feel your pain. Just yesterday, I saw a book go for 1/3 of what we paid for the same grade just a couple of years ago. I have never seen a crazier market than the current one, prices are all over the place-both high and low. My only advice to anyone reading this is don’t think you have to have a book because it tops the census, those things too often change, and not for the better if you buy the first one. The key to building a better collection without unlimited funds is patience, a trait I too often lack myself. If you try to build a high-grade set quickly, you will get burned.
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