COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Action Comics 1 Modern
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Grade:
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9.4
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1226559001
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Owner:
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Superman 9.8
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
ACTION COMICS 1991 50c BLACK BOX REPRINT EDITION 9.4. EVERY FEW YEARS DC ISSUED THESE REPRINTS KEEPING INTEREST IN THE #1 SUPERMAN FROM 1938, & PEOPLE KEPT BUYING THE NEW RELEASES. EACH REPRINT HAD A SLIGHT VARIATION FROM PREVIOUS YEARS MAKING IT EASIER TO DISTINGUISH FROM OTHER YEARS PRINTED. THIS 1991 IS NO EXCEPTION. THE PRICE IS IN A "BLACK BOX" WITH A RETAIL PRICE OF 50c. MANY OF THE REPRINTS NOT ONLY DID THE COLOR AND SIZE OF THE BOX CHANGE SO DID THE PRICE. EXAMPLE: THE 1988 ANNIVERSARY REPRINT HAD TWO COMICS PRINTED THAT YEAR, ONE WITH A 50c COVER, AND ONE WITH A $1 COVER.
THE 1988 50c COVER WAS PRINTED WITH A WHITE BOX, WHEREAS THE $1 COVER WAS PRINTED WITH A BLACK BOX. THE $1 COVER HAD A GARBAGE CAN LOWER LEFT CORNER, WHERE THE 50c WHITE PRICED BOX COVER HAD A BARCODE IN PLACE OF THE GARBAGE CAN AND WAS A DIRECT SALES EDITION, SOLD ON NEWSSTANDS. THE DIRECT SALES EDITIONS ARE MUCH RARER IN HIGH GRADE BECAUSE OF THE WAY THEY WERE HANDLED, AND FEWER COMICS PRINTED.
THIS YEAR OF 1991 THERE ARE ONLY FIVE GRADED COPIES ON THE CGC CENSUS,
ONE GRADED 3.5,
ONE GRADED 6.5,
ONE GRADED 9.0,
ONE GRADED 9.2,
AND THIS HIGHEST GRADED COPY 9.4.
UPDATE TO THE ABOVE INFORMATION, NOT SURE OF DATE BUT PROBABLY WRITTEN IN 2016ish, THERE SINCE HAVE BEEN THREE MORE COPIES GRADED...1 GRADING 9.8,& 2 GRADING 9.6. TODAY IS 9/20/2018 & I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY OF THOSE FOR SALE ON EBAY. MOST GOOD FINDS USUALLY END UP BEING LISTED THERE. WILL BE KEEPING A CLOSE LOOK OUT FOR ALL THREE OF THOSE COMICS WITH HIGH HOPES OF ANY OF THEM POPING UP FOR SALE. THEY ARE NOW CONSIDERED RARE GRADING THAT HIGH FOR THIS SPECIFIC ISSUE AND THE 9.8 IS NOW THE RAREST ACTION COMICS #1 REPRINT OF THE ENTIRE SERIES. NO IDEA IF THE NEW LUCKY OWNER HAS ANY IDEA OF HOW RARE THAT 9.8 COPY ACTUALLY IS. WITH 3 GRADING THAT HIGH, BIG POSSIBILITY ALL SENT IN BY THE SAME PERSON, REASON I THINK THIS BECAUSE ITS VERY UNUSUAL TO HAVE THREE GRADED RECENTLY AND ALL THREE ARE 9.6 AND HIGHER.
HUGE POSSIBILITY THE OWNER SAT ON THEM A LONG TIME WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME TO GRADE THEM KNOWING THEY WERE PRISTINE COPIES &.IT PAID OFF. WITH SOME LUCK THEY WILL BE LISTED WITH A "REASONABLE" BUY IT NOW, OR IN A TRUE AUCTION OF HIGHEST BIDDER WINS. ALL THREE ARE NOW HIGH ON MY WANT LIST WITH HOPES ANY OF THE THREE IS LISTED FOR SALE AND NOT ENDING UP ON A SHELVE SOMEWHERE. FINGERS CROSSED I SEE ONE SOON...I ALSO BELIEVE THESE WERE GRADED IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS TO YEAR.
VERY DIFFICULT FINDING 1991 IN GOOD ENOUGH CONDITION TO BE GRADED. ALL 1991s SEEM TO HAVE PROBLEMATIC ISSUES THAT WOULD KEEP THEM FROM GRADING HIGHER THAN THIS 9.4. WILL UPGRADE IF EVER FINDING A PRISTINE COPY BUT THAT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY.
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