When i talked to Dave last early 1980's he just got a Tec 27 same week as i got mine but said it was not the church. He never told me he had a copy of Batman 1 all the times we talked and he was buying stuff at the time and i had 3 copy's at the time to sell. Does he have the church Bat 1.
Did you just double checked this with Dave hinself?
I remember being down at the Diamond Int'l Galleries big grand opening back on Super Day of '95 and if I remember correctly, he told me that he was the buyer of Overstreet's copy of Batman 1. That copy there was listed as a VF/NM copy and priced and sold for something like $60K at the time.
With Dave, I guess it's always possible that he might have more than one copy of Bat 1, or more likely, he probably upgraded to the Church copy when it came available.
It's been 35 years since i talked to him by phone I sold him book's but can not remember what I do remember he paid 3 times guide for the Action 1 or 3 times what it was worth at the time. I was a 19 year old kid with 3 Bat 1's 5 Fantasy 15's 2 Sup 1's All the timely 1s few times over ( not Marvel 1 tho) I even had Fantastic 3 and Red Raven 1 Samson 1-2-3- FF 1's every place now NOW LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID @lou_fine I feel like Alan Harper