Batman: Earth One, Book 1 maybe, no idea the page number. Bruce Wayne, Alfred and Commissioner Gordon

There’s two pieces of Gary Frank art that would be grails to me. A number of years ago I had a chance to own one of them, and got into a fierce bidding war on it, but ultimately lost.

When I stumbled on this page at auction I put in a max bid that was far beyond what I put in on the aforementioned grail page. I’ve never read Earth One, and everything I know about it comes from a web search I did before posting this to identify the inker. So why did I bid so much?

It’s the last panel. It looks so much like my father back in the 1990s you’d think Frank used a photo of my dad for reference. I showed the page to my father, and he was weirded out enough by it that I know I’m not imagining the resemblance.