Rained Out

I was in a sour mood yesterday, was looking forward to a nice long bike ride but the torrential rain ended that thought. I took this sour mood over to the “going up on the eBay auction” pile and as if the pile and I were in some sort of sync I found this copy of Detective Comics #284 on top. Misery loves company, Negative Walt, meet Negative Batman. Some things are just destined, meant to be, Detective Comics #284 is our cover of the week.

Honestly I think Detective Comics #284 took offense to me disturbing its Negative space, I think it felt used and it showed its displeasure while I was going though the book counting the pages by giving me a cut out ad coupon. Now I’m even more miserable. That Seven Steps to Guilt article didn’t help matters much, don’t look at me, I didn’t cut the damn coupon out!

I tried to salvage something positive out of Detective Comics #284 by checking out the three Splash Pages but it was not giving me anything, nada, nishta, zilch, all duds in may view. Luckily I had a Detective Comics #285 near by and took a liking to the Splash Page for the Roy Raymond story, art by Ruben Moreira.

I think the rain had stopped, and the clouds, sensing they may have overstayed their welcome quickly drifted to the east. My copy of Detective Comics #284 must have sensed this because as a turned the next page I was treated to this DC house ad for Justice League of America #1. Seeing an ad like this must have been exciting for DC fans, back then there were no Diamond Previews or online teasers, I bet this ad did the trick.

Last nights results for the icecollectibles weekly eBay auction came in hot and heavy, I was happy with how well our raw incomplete copy of Action Comics #252 did, I was hoping for $500 but it finishing at $455 seemed like a stable and fair result.

Walter Durajlija
Walter Durajlija

Walter Durajlija is an Overstreet Advisor and Shuster Award winner. He owns Big B Comics in Hamilton Ontario.

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Ron Kasman
Ron Kasman
2 months ago

I love the Batman and Detective comics from that period. I have a few of them but I have many more in reprints. They are among the most read works in my collection.

David Mackay
David Mackay
2 months ago

Methinks I would have loved that JLA ad back in the day Walt, but today Im more intrigued by the perky little policewoman. Back off Martian Manhunter !!!

Gerald Eddy
Gerald Eddy
2 months ago

I know how you felt seeing that cut coupon! When I was selling, I had a few issues that I thought I would sell great and then would find a cut out or missing page! Arrgh! When I was young I must have only been after completing a run!

activejim
activejim
2 months ago

It would have been nice and courteous of those coupon clippers if they would have made a photostat of the coupon and left the page intact and original.
Oh wait, they didn’t have that technology back then, just pencils and crayons.
I hate those books.

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