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Adventures of Superman 499
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Adventures of Superman 499 Signature
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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2504609007
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Owner:
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Iconic1s
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
I had submitted one of these myself, which was from my original raw collection. I was super-bummed that it came back at 9.6. I seemed to be having a very hard time finding this book, as well as the first printing of Adventures of Superman 498, among first printings... later printings are a completely different story. I ended up buying this book on eBay for $179.99 which I don't think is bad for a twice signed ss book.
I had the 9.6 in this set and wasn't looking for another copy very hard because I still had other books I needed more. However, when this popped up on eBay about a month after my 9.6 came back, and considering I didn't see it very often, I had to grab it. I was also glad to have Jerry Ordway's signature because I didn’t have it anywhere else in the set at the time.
The item in the second picture slot reminds me of this cover for some reason; I think it may be the wide stance. This particular statue is by Bowen Designs and is the first Superman statue that I ever owned. When I first started collecting in the early '90's Randy Bowen was the ultimate name in statues (at least in my opinion). I was living in North Carolina at the time and there was a LCS there that had all of the Bowen DC statues in a case, none of which were for sale though. I used to love to check them all out. I ended up buying this statue from Graham Cracker Comics in Naperville Illinois for $150.00 around 1994 or so. In the last few years I haven't heard much from Bowen. I'm not the expert on the statue industry but I think that licenses were given to companies like Sideshow, and even DC Direct, and the 1:6 scale statues like the one you see here were either pushed aside for Sideshow's Premium Format 1:4 scale multimedia statues, or the fact that DC Direct could market their own characters. Ironically, I seem to now be observing Sideshow being pushed aside for statues from companies like Prime 1 Studios. The most massive statue I currently have in my collection is the 1:3 scale Prime 1 Doomsday. My statue collecting seems to have gotten bigger and bigger the more I think about it! I really wanted to get this Bowen Superman statue in this gallery and I think this is a good book for it to accompany. This is also the statue that was famously on the set of the Seinfeld show.
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