The Crippin collection.

[ashrael]

:gossip:Embarrassing story:

 

My friends and I were buying Crippen books published by DC. When we would talk on the phone, we would say “I got a killer copy of Batman #25 from that D collection” (Which I did from Ritchie Muchin. We did the deal, I came back the next day to pay him and he had erased the D from the cover which left an erasure mark on the cover ).

 

Because there was a D on the cover, we went around calling them D copies. Not knowing that the Timely had A’s on them, the Fiction House had W’s on the cover and so on. We then saw the term D COPY on the Pacific Comic Exchange, I guess because I talked a lot and did quite a bit of business with Robert, he used the term, then others followed.

 

If we knew then that our term "D copy" would stick to a pedigree collection, we would have thought of something much better to call it

 

When I was a teenager I erased writing from the covers of GA comics a couple of times

 

Luckily (or not) they weren't valuable comics

[Big Daddy]

So do you think anyone has any remorse about buying all of those Crippen books over the years now that it's been found out that they were stolen? Nothing like owning stolen property to really make the collection "Hot" huh?

[sborock]

So do you think anyone has any remorse about buying all of those Crippen books over the years now that it's been found out that they were stolen? Nothing like owning stolen property to really make the collection "Hot" huh?

 

Why would any of the dealers need to feel "remorse"? They bought comics, many years ago, someone was selling and had NO IDEA they were stolen. If they knew on the other hand, that would be horrible. Then again, I am 99% sure, no one knew they were stolen.

 

As a side note, the Crippen's aren't even going to prosecute the guy(s) who stole the books, the thieves should be feeling the remorse and are getting away scott free.......