Dark is the Gotham Knight
Detective Comics 420

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Detective Comics #420 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 0098484004
Owner: Tec-Tac-Toe

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Dark is the Gotham Knight
Date Added: 6/12/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

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!




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."
  
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