Set Description:
I am honestly not sure why we ever started this set, especially after our experience with Wonder Woman. Like WW, I just don’t believe this is a completable set, at least not at a bar of 8.0, which we have been using to date. For years we made quite a bit of progress and now have 87 of the books, including single highest graded copies of three of the keys: Issue #133, the first appearance of Batwoman, Issue #259, the first appearance of Calendar Man, and Issue #298, the first appearance of Clayface. But we have never even seen copies of many of the issues we lack and have added just two books in the last two years.
The challenge here is a little bit different than WW where the challenge is not just the difficulty of finding decent copies of some issues, but the extreme cost of such issues. We already own probably the most expensive issues in this set, so unlike WW, I do think we could afford to complete this one, but there are several more books where I have never seen a decent copy So with our current policy of only displaying completed sets, unless we substantially drop the bar, I doubt this set will ever see the light of day. It’s a shame, I love the books, but it has become more a source of frustration than anything else.
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