For This Is the Day... That a Superman Died
Superman: The Man of Steel 18

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Superman: The Man of Steel #18 Universal
Grade: 9.9
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 1197450004
Owner: Iconic1s

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: For This Is the Day... That a Superman Died
Date Added: 12/17/2019
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

<i>From the 'NO ONE CAN KILL SUPERMAN!' collection.</i>

When I added this book there were a total of 3156 graded; 1586 were 9.8’s, but there were <b>only five 9.9’s.</b> That is a .15% chance to get a 9.9, which surely only decreases the longer these books are in the wild!

I knew that books like this one existed but I never imagined that I would ever have one in this set. I had already been talking to the owner about the 9.8’s from his collection that were missing from mine, and we were working on a price for those. He then mentioned this book and the Adventures of Superman 500 Platinum Error that he also had. Once we had a price for the 9.8’s I made an additional offer to add this one and the 500 Error that he accepted. I really feel that we both dealt with each other very fairly, and I hope that he was as happy to sell these books to me, as I was to buy them from him. I know I could have just added these books to this set and forgot about where they came from, but I really feel like that would have been ungracious. I don’t mind letting whoever reads through this set know that I can’t take all of the credit for putting these books together.

I’m so glad to have a 9.9 of the 1st full appearance of Doomsday in <i>this</i> set! I got this book reholdered in September 2020. Sending this book (and a few others with it) away to get reholdered was so stressful that it inspired me to start my first CGC Journal titled <i>Adventures in Reholdering!</i> to document my experience as I worked to reholder all of my books that were in old holders.

The figure in the second picture slot is a SDCC exclusive from several years ago. I never fully realized how close it was to the cover of this book until seeing these images next to each other in this gallery. A friend/brother of mine picked this up for me one of the years when I couldn’t go myself... thanks <i>Joe!</i>
  
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