First Serious Non-X-men Key (The Batman!)
I bought this beauty at TampaCon
Ordinarily, I would try to buy a nicer book, but this one was in the mid $300 range and my dollar seemed to go just far enough with this. What I mean by that is that I saw a scraggly looking raw Batman 251 (perhaps a VG book) for $250 at the show. It seems you almost have to pay at least $200 just to get a halfway decent raw book. For the extra $100, I could get this. It seems that the extra $100 was money well spent to attain a more presentable copy. And yet, though it's not high grade, I don't really like pushing into the $400 range or more in filling my "box of thirty". At least at this point. Perhaps later when upgrading begins. While this book gets a lot of hype, I have to say that it seems to be well-deserved. Yes, the cover art is amazing. But the entire book was drawn by Adams (not just the cover) and the story was very good,and established the Joker as a serious and dangerous adversary. It's an important book, not just a pretty book.
Note that I intentionally bought a book that has universal appeal. There are a bunch of under-appreciated Neal Adams books, and some seem to come in and out of style, but this one is always a front runner. There is an old expression that goes like this: "The race does not always to go the fleet, nor the battle to the strong, but that's a hell of a good way to bet".
Footnote: I did actually buy one book before this on a lark. A cheap, underappreciated, out of favor, Neal Adams Superman. But this Batman 251 is a serious and calculated addition to my collection instead of an impulse purchase.
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