For This Is the Day... That a Superman Died
Action Comics 690
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Action Comics 690 Modern
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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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2110952007
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Owner:
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Iconic1s
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
The Man of Tomorrow Makes His Move!
This book was an upgrade to a 9.6 that was from my original raw collection. My Base Set was already 100 percent complete but this book was the 90th book to reach at least 9.8 (I had one 9.9 at the time) out of the 98 total books. I was really excited to be able to break the 90 books graded at 9.8 mark. It was also the second to the last first printing that I needed in 9.8 from this entire set. The last first printing I needed was Adventures of Superman 498, which is ironically how I ended up adding this book.
Over the couple of years working really hard on this collection I had never seen an Adventures of Superman 498 first printing pop up for sale anywhere. As far as books from this set go, it’s not a rare book at all but I guess the people that did have it were hanging onto it. On 22 December 2019 I posted a WTB post on the CGC forums looking for a 498 first printing graded 9.8. I ended up finally getting a reply on 31 January 2020 from a member that had just bought a collection of 1700 ‘90’s era raw books. He had a really nice copy that he offered to submit for me. I asked him about a few other books I needed at the time and he also had this Action Comics 690. The Adventures of Superman 498 looked incredible and seemed to be a sure thing while we were not as certain about this book coming back 9.8.
I agreed to buy them both if they came back 9.8 and he submitted them for pressing and grading. On 23 April 2020 we finally got the grades and this book earned a 9.8 while the 498 received a 9.2 with no grader notes! This was good news mixed with bad but I decided to look at the glass half full… as much as I hoped to finish out all four printings of Adventures of Superman 498 in 9.8, it was also pretty cool to finish out the entire Reign of the Supermen all in 9.8. On the really bright side, as of this writing, this book makes a total of 10 (all labels) 9.8 copies of Action Comics 690 while there are a total of 23 (including one Qualified) 9.8’s of the 498 first printing; this book was actually more than twice as rare at the time and I’m really glad to have it! Sometimes things work out a certain way for a reason and when I do add the Adventures of Superman 498 first printing in 9.8 it will be in good company!
Many thanks go out to KryptoSpidey for his help with this book.
Update - the Adventures of Superman 498 first printing was finally added thanks to the help of another board member... check it out there!
The book in the second picture slot is from 1998 and was graded 1 February 2022. As of this writing it is still the ONLY graded copy… and a 9.8! I show it here because of the inclusion of Doomsday on the cover, as well as a later iteration of Cyborg Superman. For that, and it’s rarity, it fits nicely in this gallery! This is a really cool book and this one, like many others, blows my mind that it took so long for one to be graded! I also think it goes well with this Action Comics 690 because they both show Villains on the cover, although The Eradicator is being framed as one!
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