For This Is the Day... That a Superman Died
Action Comics 684 Second Printing

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Action Comics #684 Universal
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 2028182023
Owner: Iconic1s

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: For This Is the Day... That a Superman Died
Date Added: 8/26/2019
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

<i><b>"There can be only One..." The Kurgan - Highlander</b></i>

<i>...at least for now.</i> This was the first Action Comics 684 second printing graded, and it is a 9.8! This was also my first experience having a <u><i>one and only</i></u> book from this set. I spotted this on eBay and worried over it for five days until the auction was about to close. I had been looking for raw copies and was watching about half a dozen different ones when this popped up for sale. It seems relatively easy to find raw but one can never tell the condition until it arrives in the mail. Needless to say, I felt that paying a premium for this book was worth alleviating myself from the continued search for a raw example that may or may not grade at 9.8. I ended up bidding what I thought was a ridiculous price thinking it would sell for around $120.00 - $160.00. I ended up winning it at $304.01... <i>worth it!</i>

Books like this confuse me. When I started this set I only meant to collect the Doomsday storyline from the cameos up to Superman 75 (all editions but not the later printings), as well as the Adventures of Superman 500 (all editions) and the Platinum TPB. When I had those, I registered my set only to find out it also included the <i>Funeral</i> and <i>Reign</i> books as well as a ton of subsequent printings, DC Universe logo variants, etc... I had only begun! My confusion is that I have a hard time understanding how, after all these years, that at least one each of all of these books hadn’t already been graded. It also blows my mind that a book like this ends up being graded and sold, rather than kept in a collection. That's just <i>wild!</i>

<i>Whether I'm confused or not, I do know I'm really happy to have this book in my set!</i>
  
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