Die "Ian Levine-Sammlung" steht zum Verkauf (nicht einzeln und nicht als Auktion; Angebot zur Zeit in einem einzigen Posten).
Aus der Katalogbeschreibung (pdf):
With the assistance of the nascent
internet (including the discussion forums of
Certified Guaranty Comic, a comic book grading
service) and the dealer/advisor Paul Sassienie, he
achieved that ambition, which would essentially be
impossible to replicate. Ian continued to add new
publications to the collection for a decade after
at last obtaining his final lacuna,
New Adventure
Comics #27 from June 1938.
The Ian Levine Collection of DC Comics
Complete numbers comfortably more than 40,000
individual issues, comprising
every single comic
book published for sale by DC from New Fun #1 in 1935 through the end of 2016.
These comics are supplemented in the Levine Collection by
hundreds of promotional comics—many of the
utmost rarity—by DC artists and writers and
featuring various DC (or DC-inspired) characters
endorsing various consumer goods and corporate
entities. The collection also features a number of
“ashcan” issues (intended to establish copyright
but not available for sale), as well as many
foreign (that is, non–United States) reprints,
British comic books featuring appearances by
DC characters, and a great number of anthology
reprints in proper book form. The supremacy
of Levine’s achievement was cemented in 2010
when his collection was utilized to supply nearly
all of the illustrations for Taschen’s monumental
publication
75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of
Modern Mythmaking
by Paul Levitz, the former
president and publisher of DC.
Auf Twitter soll Ian Levine zum Thema gepostet haben, dass er seine Sammlung schon vor 12 Jahren verkauft hat. Das Angebot über Sotheby's müsste danach von einem neuen Besitzer sein, der die Sammlung auch um die neueren Jahrgänge ergänzt haben müsste.
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