Millennium Interlocking Covers (DC, 1988)
Artists: Jerry Bingham (Penciller) , Jerry Bingham (Inker)
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DescriptionIn 1987, I first walked into a comic book store and was instantly hooked. However, I went straight to DC for some reason, and picked up the #1 issues of Green Arrow, Spectre, and Suicide Squad along with the start of Batman's New Adventures on issue 408. A couple months later in 1988, the Millennium cross-over event happened, and I was blown away. Not the greatest cross-over of all time for sure, but my first big comic event. I saw the interlocking covers between Captain Atom, Detective, Spectre and Suicide Squad, and thought they were the coolest thing. In retrospect, it makes sense that I loved them as they were done by Jerry Bingham, the Batman: Son of the Demon artist on whose work I absolutely drooled over page after page. I don't know of an earlier set of interlocking covers, so this might have been the first of its kind...The last couple years as an OA collector, these were the covers I was holding out as my personal grail. I contacted Jerry, who said he had sold them as a set in 1989. And that was where the trail went cold. Posting on CGC's Where are they now? just fanned other people's interest and yielded no results. On a random scan of the CAF listing of ebay items, I almost fell off my chair on seeing all four covers for sale. But the link was dead; the seller pulled them once he realized they were likely going to be broken up. I contacted him separately, and several agonizing months later and multiple assurances of never breaking up the group, we got to a happy place. In a quirk of fate, they arrived on my birthday. I notified Jerry who was excited to see them again after all these years. Jerry and I grew up a few miles apart from each other on the South Side of Chicago (a couple decades apart though), and we've maintained contact during my (until now, fruitless) search. Having that extra connection makes owning these that much cooler. Social/Sharing |
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Troy C. Punswick 
Member Since 2008
Posted on 10/25/2014
Thanks for posting these AMAZING pieces side by side!!!
Anthony F
Member Since 2004
Posted on 10/25/2014
So COOL that you were able to land all four! Congrats !
Jason Budnick
Member Since 2007
Posted on 10/30/2014
So many things get broken up these days :( it is nice to see these together in one place. Sincere congrats on keeping them that way and posting for others to share.
mathew hodgins
Member Since 2013
Posted on 10/31/2014
Just too cool! Nice job getting them all together!
Olivier D
Member Since 2006
Posted on 11/27/2014
Saw this on eBay at the time and was damn damn sad the auctions ended that quick! Congrats love those!
Sideshow Bob
Member Since 2012
Posted on 11/27/2014
Olivier D wrote:
Saw this on eBay at the time and was damn damn sad the auctions ended that quick! Congrats love those!The seller realized they were going to get sold to different people which would break up the set, so he pulled the auction. Took a lot of convincing that I wouldn't break them up before he agreed to sell them to me. But if he didn't put them up there for that brief period, I would never have known where they were at.
Olivier D
Member Since 2006
Posted on 11/28/2014
Sideshow Bob wrote:
The seller realized they were going to get sold to different people which would break up the set, so he pulled the auction. Took a lot of convincing that I wouldn't break them up before he agreed to sell them to me. But if he didn't put them up there for that brief period, I would never have known where they were at.Wel congrats again, I was following them all and indeed there is always a risk of breaking such a beauty when put on separated auctions. The seller should have auctioned them as one lot. I'm happy to see them all there, must be a beauty to see them all on a wall!
Timothy Guerrero
Member Since 2009
Posted on 11/28/2014
It must have felt great that first time you joined the actual art together!
Jason Versaggi
Member Since 2005
Posted on 6/10/2015
Outstanding find and outstanding accomplishment. Bravo! They look fantastic.
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