For This Is the Day... That a Superman Died
Superman 75 Poly-Bagged Edition
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Superman 75 Signature
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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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1240360021
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Owner:
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Iconic1s
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
I like the tombstone/monument feel of this cover. It's worth noting that there is no credit given for the cover art on this book. According to a couple different sources, most importantly DC Direct Currents 58 which can be found in my custom set, the cover was computer animated by Eric Kachelhofer. I submitted this information through the CGC forums by starting an Ask CGC topic which you can check out here:
https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/471210-superman-75-poly-bagged-and-platinum-edition-cover-artist/?tab=comments#comment-11262550
I received this reply when following up later:
Yes, your information was sent over to the graders and they will review. The graders don't provide updates on things like this so if they do decide to change the wording on the label you would just see that change going forward. If you have a specific book you want to send in, you can always put a note on the packing slip as well as a sticky note on the comic bag for the graders to review or consider adding or changing the wording but again, this final determination is up to them and a request does not guarantee they will put what you want on the label.
So we will wait and see if this starts popping up on labels going forward... because this is such an iconic cover I think it would be really cool for the artist to receive proper credit, so I personally hope this information is added.
This was the first Signature Series book from this set that I added when barely beginning to build it. I was originally striving for all Universal Label books. I made an exception for this book because it came up for sale before a Universal and that started me down the Signature Series road. I had this book reholdered in February 2021 but did not attempt to get anything changed on the label. I was so stressed when sending that batch of reholders off that I just wanted them back as soon as possible so didn't attempt anything that may cause a delay. I've since added a Universal to my collection and both are in my Custom Set. lf I ever have an extra copy I may send it in to try to get the label annotation added... if sources are correct I think Mr. Kachelhofer deserves it!
Instead of showing the back of this book I included an image of another fairly rare item from this story. This is an uncut sheet of the four spectra etch foil cards from The Death of Superman trading card set. I was on a long bicycle ride many years ago while living in North Carolina when I steered into a Comic Book Store and spotted this. It was a huge pain to carefully put this in my backpack and get it miles to home without ruining it. I really enjoyed all of the Skybox card sets throughout the early/mid '90's but lost interest when Fleer bought Skybox. The non-sport card industry never felt the same to me after that. I also have an uncut sheet that has three of these uncut sheets on the same sheet.
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