Detective Comics 12 on Ebay

[Thegoldenage]

The seller's desription of how to preserve the book is a riot...

 

 

Detective Comics 12

[helionaut]

I knew a kid who laminated some of his baseball cards for preservation. Can't recall exactly what, but I think a George Brett rookie was a victim.

 

I also like how he answered the question about page count.

[Ringfinger]

That is sad looking.

[JohnBull]

Not an issue you see very often, but that particular copy would look cruddy even in my collection.

[Ringfinger]

I'm with you on that.

[ft88]

Jeez, harsh aren't we. I don't think I have ever seen one of these even for sale, ever. I am betting the pages are not brittle but in fact cream to tan. Take a damp sponge and wipe off the dirt and you have a nice complete Fair/G book. If I were a pre27 Tec buyer this would get a Good bid from me anyways. It looks like it could be restored pretty easily too.

 

Its not like the water logged tec 35, or the front cover only of tec 33 that were for sale a while back. This is your perfect low grade comic of a rare book with a complete sweet cover - nothing wrong with that.

 

Ed

[Wally's Comics]

yeah, yer right...

 

not too shabby for a rare 60 year old raw.

 

 

[SignatureSelect]

apparently donut didn't think that. If I had the doe I would bid on it. Pre-batman detective's are rare.

[FlyingDonut]

Everybody should stay away from this cruddy, dirty, ugly book. Why, it probably has brittle pages and should simply be tossed into the fireplace. Stay away! Stay away!

[VintageComics]

apparently donut didn't think that. If I had the doe I would bid on it. Pre-batman detective's are rare.

 

I once had a phone conversation with a dealer out west (Cali) and he told me a story of how about 3 decades ago sold a "NM" run of Detective from issues #1-30 (approx....poor memory on my part) and got ridiculed about it for getting double or triple guide....in restorspect the books were probably F/FV to VF range as the guy could not grade, but STILL....what a story!!

[Pirate]

if you see a nice tec12 for sale in a couple of weeks by a guy named donut, stay away ! stay away !

[SignatureSelect]

I don't think donut is going to restore it. but I'n either case I wouldn't stay way detective 1-26 is a hard run of books any issue is impossible to find.