COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Showcase 55 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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Certification #:
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4340471006
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #55 features the first solo appearance of the GA Green Lantern in the Silver Age, as well as the first SA appearance of Solomon Grundy. It also features the Origin of Hourman and Dr. Fate, so there are a lot of firsts here. It has long been one of the most covered of the issues that did not feature the first appearance of a character who went on to a successful solo run in their own title.
Our WP 9.8 does not have the best centering, but it does have WP and is one of three highest graded copies out of 785 in the census. I am not sure exactly of the background on this book, but what can be gathered is somewhat interesting and perhaps indicative of a downward trend in prices, at least for this book.
This book was graded by CGC on 10/18/2023, at which time it became the third 9.8 in the census. The other two 9.8s came from pedigree collections. The Don & Maggie 9.8 sold somewhere, I’m not sure where, but the sale is on GPA, in May 2019 for $11,000, which was more than double what that book sold for in 2013. But then in September 2020 we saw the COVID bump as the Western Penn 9.8, which had OW/W pages, sold on Heritage for $26,400. Now to my eyes, it is the nicest of the three 9.8s, but $26,400 ????
In 2022, one of the seven 9.6s sold on Heritage for $6600, followed by a sale of a different 9.6 on Heritage in 2023 for $5,500. But then this book appears on the market and first sells somewhere earlier in 2024 for just $7,200, barely more than the recent 9.6 sales and just 27% of what the Western Penn copy made four years earlier. I purchased the book off an E-Bay listing on 10/2/2024 for $7,400, $200 more than the sale earlier this year so that, after the E-Bay fees, the seller was certainly not making a profit.
Having bid on the Western Penn book, but fortunately not coming out the winner, I was shocked when I found the listing. The photo on e-bay was awful, which told me it was most likely a non-dealer trying to get his money back, but I recognized that it was a recently graded book and pulled the photos off the CGC certificate-I wish they were available for all CGC books. The book has poor centering, which is not considered a fault by CGC, and the case appears scuffed, but otherwise looks good, so I bought it on the spot, as seven people had followed it within the last 24 hours. I am not sure if I got a real bargain or just caught a falling knife, Lord knows I have been on the other side of those enough of late, but for now, at least, I am pretty pleased. Now if the damn pics would ever load, CGC really needs to improve this site if they want more books registered, sometimes you can never get a pic to load on it and it ends up taking too much time to keep a registry current.
Two hours after I started, the registry is now updated, they don’t tell you that maintaining a set in the registry is incompatible with having a job, good thing I’m retired LOL.
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