Everyone is loving Absolute Batman by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, and as the series increases in popularity, the first printing of issue #1 is fetching huge prices online.
If you read one DC series this year, make it Absolute Batman. From Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, the re-imagined Batman mythos is off-the-scale epic, dialling everything up to eleven. Absolute Batman offers up a much grittier take on the hero”s origin. He has not inherited wealth, and Alfred Pennyworth is not a butler, but a hardened operative. Wayne himself isn”t a rich socialite –in his mid-twenties, he works as a civil engineer. The Joker, rather, is the rich business mogul.
The series is a phenomenon. Issue #1 has already had an unprecedented nine reprints, and it”ll be returning to shelves for a 10th reprint due to overwhelming demand. In addition to that, the Absolute Batman Annual by Daniel Warren Johnson and James Harren is getting a second printing. If these aren”t testament to its immense success, nothing is.
Per Bleeding Cool, in terms of orders, the hugely anticipated issue #15 had upwards of 300,000 orders, without the need for blind bags. For reference, issue #14 hit 200,000 orders. It’s consistently among the top 10 best-selling comics month-to-month, as we’ve reported.
As for the series’ first printing of issue #1, the comic is suddenly worth a lot of cash. We took one look on eBay and found a copy up for sale from Piranha Comics for £129.95. Another (at our time of writing), was fetching £78.08 at 21 bids with over 5 hours left on auction. These are being sold raw. One copy with a CGC of 9.8 is currently up for sale at US $400.00.
If you’ve got a copy of Absolute Batman #1 (first printing) we suggest holding onto it for the moment. Or you could get a quick payday. It’s a win-win.
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