If it's true, it's an absolute shame. Metropolis should be sued for knowingly selling restored books as unrestored.
I wouldn't doubt it either. When I went to the San Diego Comic Con a few years back for the first time, I gazed in wonder at the books that Metropolis had for sale, and tried to talk to Steven Fischler about some of them, but he was as cold as ice and you could tell he didn't like talking to peons such as myself. I asked several other dealers about him, and you could tell they thought he was a real ! It seems like Vincent Zurzolo is better, but I've never met him.