COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Detective Comics 420 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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0098484004
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Owner:
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Tec-Tac-Toe
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Detective Comics 420
Time is the enemy of us all; especially if you are wearing as many colors as the man about to be murdered is wearing. Fashion police, fashion police, emergency, EMERGENCY!
Ok, again, enough "fun." Returning to solo cover art work with Tec 420 Adams showed he was still "the man." The cover art not only literally drips with tension but does so in a confined space that is, generously, two-thirds of the cover. The cover art is, in a word, brilliant!
Pop Quiz: how many more Adams' covers follow this issue in this Tec set/run?
This copy of Tec 420 is a "Keeper" although I am hankering for my typical 9.8 copy.
For nostalgia sake, I have included the description of this book from when I purchased it. Without further delay: HIGHEST GRADED COPY!! Featuring another superb NEAL ADAMS cover and a BATGIRL BACKUP STORY by Frank Robbins, this "bone" white paged beauty sits atop the CGC Mountain as the Highest Graded Copy ever. Worthy an honored place in your high grade collection.
The description sold me on the book! However, so much for highest graded copy!
Image # 2 is of the second CGC graded 9.6 copy that I own of Detective Comics 420.
Issue Credits (as per the CGC Universal Label):
Frank Robbins story
Neal Adams cover
Frank Robbins and Don Heck Art
Issue Notes (as per the CGC Universal Label):
Batgirl back-up story.
Detective Comics 421
Tec 421 is another book missing from this run. However, until I can locate a perfect, I repeat perfect, copy of Tec 421 this set will remain without this issue. The 9.8 copy will, of course, be a Keeper.
Not having a copy of this issue in this run will not prevent me, however, from providing my "take" on Tec 421, another issue in this run with a variation of "Hang 'Em High," very high, cover art. The cover art theme can also be called: Live by the cape, die by the cape. However, I prefer to call the cover art gorgeous.
Adams was still on a roll with this cover as everything about it simply makes me want more of it. Quite simply, what's not to like about this cover, other than Mysto (what was that about)? Ok, Adams had no control over Mysto. What he did have control over, however, is explosive.
Great book, fantastic cover art, "gotta get me one."
Issue Credits (as per the CGC Universal Label): Please see the slot for Detective Comics issue 421
Issue Notes: (as per the CGC Universal Label): Please see the slot for Detective Comics issue 421.
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