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The Man Who Turned Down Detective Comics #27

Published Sun, 15 Dec 2013 14:00:11 -0600

Tommy Zimmer writes:

Store Manager Justin Vahosky was certainly surprised the day one of his customers at his store Comic City in Canton, MI brought in a rare specimen. Enclosed within a brief case you would only see in the movies that contained money instead contained one of the rarest comics in existence. It was an original volume 1, Detective Comics #27, the first appearance of Batman, and commanding a seven figure value in mint condition.

His customer came in with one intention: to sell it. With a chain of stores in southeastern Michigan, Comic City does not usually buy used comics.

And, sadly, this was no exception.

Vahosky noted that when he and his coworker Todd saw this, they were amazed at it. He said he never sees his customers come in with stuff like this, and was surprised at the brief case it was carried in to protect it. Yet, they were no experts on the condition of it, and certainly had no real way to price the rare piece. So, they had to turn him away, and he was disappointed.

But as I remarked to Justin when he told me about their business model, "you have to make a profit on what your customer base wants." He certainly agreed about that.

Tommy Zimmer is an up and coming freelance writer and journalist from Detroit, MI. He has freelanced for various websites and local newspapers like the Detroit Free Press and Detroit Metro Times. He also is working on many comic book projects, his first which is to self published soon. At the same time, he is still writing for the Free Press, and is very happy to be with Bleeding Coo and the website ComicBookSyndicate.com. You can also listen to him on SuperPowerCast with his co-host Nick Ahlhelm on superpowercast.podbean.com. You can check all of his goings-on at zimmert101.wordpress.com

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