Today’s Sacramento Bee (10/29/2010) featured a story about a local man who has a copy of Detective 27 up for auction at Heritage (good choice!). You can read the story here. Since I live in the Sacramento area my wife and I found this article very entertaining.
Robert Irwin is the original owner, he remembers buying the comic book in 1939 from a Sacramento market. He left the comic in a box for 55 years, squeezed between copies of a National Geographic and Mechanics Illustrated he also bought on that trip. He almost sold in 1992 to a local comic shop but his wife talked him out of it. Now, almost 20 years later it is up for auction.
The comic graded CGC 7.0 FN/VF with off-white pages. I’ll be tracking the book and it’s final realized price. There will be an update after the signature auction closes in November. You can see the book here.
Filed under: Most Valuable Comic Books
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Well, this kind of hits home. I lived in Sacramento for a while and subscribed to the Bee. Sure would be nice to come across a comic of that caliber. I just purchased an older collection of 650 comics, but alas, no hidden gems. There are many published before 1974 and a few in the ’60s, but they are low on the condition scale and worth 10 to 20 dollars each. I will keep looking though.
Dave
I’ve looked at the book on the Heritage website and it really is a nice copy. What I also find amazing is that the owner purchased that particular comic book. How many others would be worth very little today? He hit the jackpot as a kid and didn’t even know it! Great story.