Why Is Absolute Batman #20 Selling for More Because It’s Damaged?! Plus X-Force #116’s Wild Reset

This week on Bronze and Modern Gods, we’re tracking a strange new collector reality: condition problems are creating “accidental scarcity” in real time.

Hot Book of the Week:Absolute Batman #20 is moving for a completely different reason than usual. Widespread printer-related cover damage has made true Near Mint copies of Cover A harder to find, and those clean copies are already selling at a premium on the secondary market.

25 Year Rule:X-Force #116 — the Milligan/Allred reset that effectively launches the X-Statix era and marks a major moment in Marvel’s move away from the Comics Code. We also get into why the run’s “mutants as celebrity content” concept feels even more relevant now, and the later Princess Diana controversy that Marvel ultimately abandoned.

Underrated Books of the Week:Nowhere Men #1 (Image, 2012) — “science is the new rock ’n’ roll,” a stylish, experimental book with a legendary reputation.

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