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DETECTIVE COMICS No. 99 Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: May, 1945 Description: CGC certified: VF (8.0). Purple label: Restored (C-1). White pages. Grader notes: "Light spine stress lines to cover; small amount of color touch on left bottom front cover; small crease left bottom of front cover." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 98 graded copies (90 Universal, 8 Restored). GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade, few Purple label sales in any grade. The only recent restored sale is a 4.0 (C-1, cover trimmed) that sold for $405 in 5/22. For comparison purposes, here are recent Universal sales: A 7.0 sold for $1159 in 7/21; an 8.5 sold for $2280 in 11/21. Credits: Cover: Dick Sprang. Scripts: Don Cameron, Jack Farr. Art: Dick Sprang (ghosting for Bob Kane), Howard Sherman, Jack Farr, Louis Cazeneuve, George Roussos. Overstreet: "Penguin cover and story." Bat-cyclopedia: "In May 1945, Batman and Robin match wits with the Penguin.... [who has] escaped from prison and returned to plague Batman and Robin with an elaborate swindle. After kidnapping three people — a shipping executive named Rogers, a young girl named Betty, and a third person, who remains unidentified — and manufacturing three wax statues resembling the kidnapped persons in every detail, he sends the statues to relatives and business associates of the victims along with notes claiming that the statues are the real persons, whom he has frozen, and that the three frozen people will die within forty-eight hours unless he is paid $150,000 for the secret of thawing them out safely." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 118, 299. The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION comprises over 40,000 comic books, including a copy of every single DC comic published for retail sale from 1934 to 2014. The collection was amassed by British music producer Ian Levine over the course of several decades, and it's been hailed as the single greatest collecting accomplishment in comic book history. This collection served as the basis for former DC Comics president Paul Levitz's monumental book 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, published by Taschen in 2017. PBA is proud to present this epic collection in a series of themed sales over the next two years. To join the DC Universe Collection notifications list, contact pba@pbagalleries.com. Enjoying PBA's Batman sale? A very small number of softcover and limited edition hardcover auction catalogues are available for purchase. The catalogues are fully illustrated, thoroughly researched, and make excellent reference works for Batman fans. To order a copy, or to inquire about consignment opportunities, contact Ivan Briggs, PBA's Director of Comics: ivan@pbagalleries.com. Item#: 360073 Headline: DETECTIVE COMICS #99 * CGC 8.0 Restored * PENGUIN