For This Is the Day… That a Superman Died
Superman 75 Poly-Bagged Platinum Edition

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Superman #75 Universal
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 1198036004
Owner: Iconic1s

SET DETAILS

Winning Set:

For This Is the Day… That a Superman Died
Date Added: 3/8/2018
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

<i>From my original raw collection.</i>

"plat·i·num - noun - a precious silvery-white metal, the chemical element of atomic number 78. It was first encountered by the Spanish in South America in the 16th century, and is used in jewelry, electrical contacts, laboratory equipment, industrial catalysts, and awesome comic books!" Dictionary (with my own addition)

I owned this copy and another raw since the '90's. I remember picking one of them up at a Comic Book Store in Illinois for $300.00 around 1994 before the internet made them relatively easy to come by. That was a lot of money back then, and still is today for a raw book, but seeing one of these in the wild back then was like seeing a Unicorn so you had better not pass it up. I kept one in the bag and opened the other to see what it looked like. In 2013 I sent them both into CGC along with a Platinum Adventures of Superman 500 I also had since the '90's. This copy came back 9.8 and the other 75 and the 500 both were 9.6. I kept this one and traded the 9.6 set for four of the other books in this set. I think the other guy got a better trade if you look at dollar value but I got some books I needed so I think we both were happy. I really enjoy the fact that I hung onto this all those years, submitted it myself and received a 9.8. I'm not sure if this is the one I opened or the one I kept sealed. I have more recently started hearing how many of these poly-bagged books were damaged by leaving them in the bags all those years so I wish I had kept track of which was which, just out of curiosity.

Instead of showing the back of this book I included an image of another fairly rare item from this story. This is an uncut sheet of the four spectra etch foil cards from The Death of Superman trading card set. I was on a long bicycle ride many years ago while living in North Carolina when I steered into a Comic Book Store and spotted this. It was a huge pain to carefully put this in my backpack and get it miles to home without ruining it. I really enjoyed all of the Skybox card sets throughout the early/mid '90's but lost interest when Fleer bought Skybox. The non-sport card industry never felt the same to me after that.
  
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