The Zabra Collection-PRIMARY SET
Action Comics 412

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Action Comics #412 Universal
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Pedigree: Twin Cities
Certification #: 1039379001
Owner: Zabra

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: The Zabra Collection-PRIMARY SET
Date Added: 11/30/2014
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

ACTION COMICS # 412-TWIN CITIES PEDIGREE-HIGHEST GRADED

Cover Date: May 1972

I found this book in the State of Maryland.

On Sale Date: March 30, 1972
Cover Price: $0.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Murray Boltinoff
Cover Artist: Nicholas Peter Cardy

Stories:
Superman : Secret of the First Metropolis
Superman : The Menace of the Sky-Scorchers
Eclipso : Duel of the Divided Man

THE TWIN CITIES PEDIGREE


Tragic story of Gary Dahlberg‘s death. A retired bus driver in Minneapolis,Minnesota Dahlberg was killed in June 2010 when the kitchen of his home caught fire. He had been a comic book collector since he was a child, and somehow, almost impossibly, his extensive comic book collection escaped damage from both the fire and the fire fighters’ water hoses.

62 years old when he died in June 2010, Dahlberg would have been about 10 years old as the Silver Age was getting underway in the mid/late 1950s. An important and exciting time to be entering your prime comic book reading age.

The collection includes extensive runs of Marvel, DC Comics, and other publishers from the Silver Age and beyond.

Dahlberg was an avid — and meticulous — comic book fan his entire life. Working for a bookstore while he was in high school in the 1960s, Dahlberg was able to choose his copies before they were placed on the racks for sale. That advantage and the great care he took in handling them, plus the cool Minnesota climate, makes his comics– designated by CGC as the Twin Cities pedigree –among the best-preserved Silver Age collections to ever surface. Many books in the collection are top-census copies (determined to be the highest grade of a given issue among copies certified by CGC so far) and even among those that aren’t structurally the best, observers have been impressed with the white pages and fresh, bright cover inks — the result of that cool northern climate.

Dahlberg’s family had little idea of his collection’s value. Bidders present at Heritage’s NYC auction venue in May 2011 noted that members of his family were quietly surprised at the prices realized and moved by the experience of watching other collectors affirm that what was important to Gary was important to other comic book fans as well. Dahlberg will be remembered for what he left his family and the comic collecting community for quite some time.



 
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