Terry E. Gibbs

Not bad way to start, with one of THE keys. (get 147 next, then 153, 165) and keep an eye out for a 123 in your price range. Also if you come across a 156, it has the best "Barry & Iris" story in the run.

I was a about to say no, but I try and pick up cover less issues or very low grade late issues with Black Canary, with Cinfa art. (Also pick up cover less All American with Harlequin, but that is another story. )

That Bargain when you got it.

Is that 106 signed - if so who was it.

Very nice Bill, the 110 with "White pages " !!

106 in 5.0 to even a 6.5 come around occasionally but over 7.0 is very hard to find. Happy hunting, hope one pops up for you.

Has one of the best covers. Also great SA story.

You are obviously going hi-grade, what grade are you after in the 106 Did you see that HA SC13 9.2 last week?

Just saw it. Beat me to it. That cover went up in HA early with all the premium art, while they left a Bronze Cinfa cover which hit 20K for the last day.

Very nice books, all keys and hard to find. Congrats. Can we ask after these what is next, 139, SC13, or 106 (or are they already in your cupboard)

The one cardinal sin in resto is trimming. Once trimming is involved it gets hit, or "pieces added" which usually means in a decade as glues dry out the cover starts to fall apart etc

Small resto does not hit low or low/mid like high or mid as much in $$$$$. At a 7.0 even small resto can knock off 70%. For a 5.0 maybe 50% for a 3.0 maybe 30% or less. Seen some books 2.0 and under that are barely discounted. On SC4 maybe 25%- 30% have some resto.

GPA has $179 back in Nov 20 and $272 for a "Savanah Pedigree" this month. So guessing somewhere in between.

It looked like two guys just going for it. I think it opened at around $2k, so not even a lot of tracking bids. That is usually a sign.

In 1964 there was a widely covered article in I think Time or NY post (a mainstream mag) covering the surprise that anyone would pay $100 for an old Superman or Captain Marvel. From then on many people saved these and some bought multiple copies. In 1964 X-men and DD debuted. In 1961 Marvel had only one super-hero title, the ASM arrived in 1962. Fandom was already under way by then. Fanzines were being churned out. The Alley awards from 1962 had been held, (Flash 123 top comic for year Cinfa best artist and FF best new comic). In that period 1956 to 1960 up to first JLA there were not a lot of people collecting. Four years later all that changed.

Yeah it appears so. High grade for these early showcase (8.-14) is probably anything 7.0 or over as there are so very few of them. The low grades on this has also strengthened - as there are just not many SC4 -14 around. Be interesting to see if the low and mid grade on ebay now vanish, either being picked up or dealers pulling them back until they can sell them at Cons. (hmm Cons ... remember them ???)

I know we don't normally talk about money here, unlike it seems every Marvel post on CGC forums, but thought this should not go unnoticed. Anyone here watch this auction. Anyone here win it or know who won it, or was the under bidder ? SC 13 9.2 hits $38.4K. It is the single highest graded. It was last listed as a GPA sale 2009 for $13,145. It had a sale of $9K for a 8.0 on Comic Connect late 2017 and a 8.5 sold for just under $10K on CL a few months ago. The really crazy thing is that a 9.2 SC 8 went for $31.2K on HA a few months ago. Okay there are two copies at that and none higher, but it was 1st Capn Cold, 1958 SA comic. First modern super villain. Now seems a bargain. https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/superhero/showcase-13-the-flash-dc-1958-cgc-nm-92-white-pages/a/7246-94191.s?ic2=mytracked-lotspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyTrackedLots-101116

Very nice and OW to W to boot.

Very nice. Glad Trickster has once more been retrieved from some dumb editors disposal bin. No longer just one of The Rogues and brings a different sort of menace from Grodd, Thawne, or the Rogues.

Not sure how it got a 4.5 but that is a great looking book.

Picked this up recently (not sure if I will try again - was not easy and it is Flash 155. The cover is one of the panel pages expanded. Note the colours and white paper. They used much higher quality paper than the US or Australia, this comic also featured Marvel characters as well. Thinking late 60s or early 70s. Not sure as they have been swallowed by the comic box monster. Have a Tec 359 from Germany as well, (brought locally) also has that same great PQ.

113, 121 + 142, all good covers. Josh Williamson brought him back in 2019 after some editor had let him "die". Johns resurrected him in Rogues war, far too good a character to let go of. Not easy to write for. One of my all time favourites Trickster/Rogues stories was in Chuck Dixon's Catwoman. Really nailed the character.

Very nice copy, I have been after a nice raw 136 every time I get to a Con (from Australia that would be EEEC x 2 NYCC x1) .Impossible to find.

There were two British Flash series both very short. Here is the second series 1#. This is taken from the splash to 106 with the tree that partially obscured Flash on the left taken out. I do have it but could not remember where, this is one of a friends old copies. To me much better Grodd than 127.

I think that was part of the very early period and you can sort of see that in Flash 107-120 a lot, 107,108,111,115,118, etc and same in GL 2,3,4,5 etc. After that they appear more direct to the story. Not sure about 123, as I heard Carmine did that one and gave it to Julie as a challenge, but knowing Fox and how he was so link with that Golden age I am not sure that is the full story.