Terry E. Gibbs

Twice they had a story so good they tweaked it and repeated. 147 & 153, and 155 & 174. All four are classics.

Hmm that is worth poking around for. Think the same guy did a cover for the SC4 here. Will post a copy of that tomorrow. The Nembo Kid one was a bonus. Had no real idea it was SC8, just grabbed it for the Cold cover.

and Nembo Kid did not come out too well. This is digest size version and came out around 1962

I kind of got carried away. There is a story behind each of them. I now am thinking the Australian SC8 cover is not Cinf. The Nembo Kid is the "Coldest man on Earth" story. I keep thinking I should sell some of them but can never decide which ones so back in the box they go until next time, and if you think this is bad wait until i put up my SC13s.

Firstly, nope. I have only seen a couple of these covers, 117 and 146 are a couple from memory. I know there are others and 108 is probably the earliest. Was sold at SDCC back in around 1972-73. Steve Fishler who at one stage owned Comic Connect or parts of it anyway, (he may still be there) owns,or used to own the cover or splash (or both) to 123. I am guessing he may go for it and if he does someone will need very deep pockets to beat him. After checking my records, apart from 108 (not seen in a while), 117, 133, 135 (held by Cool Line Doherty bros back in 2019 NYCC) 137 which sold on Heritage for $167,300 in 2012, plus 146 $44,812 in 2011. That 137 of course is iconic, first appearance of JSA in silver age, Jay also on the cover, large flash images etc. Still $167K is big money back in 2012. My guess is it will be over $80K. It appears that the Flash image is a stat paste up. That will hurt a possible final value if it has been original art instead. Still, it is 121, and who knows when next cover will turn up. Also this is 135 from 2019 NYCC. I did not even query a price (I have my pride and know my expression would not be something I would be proud of)

I know this is sort of out of place here, but the majority of people on this page are Flash fans. First cover offered to public in over six years. Also proof. Note artwork from the story has surfaced so far. (Covers and story art given away to different people. )

I think because like the GA in Adventure it was basically the same story lines, like Batman and Superman. Using his ability to talk to sea creatures to nab pirates and smugglers and other criminals escaping on water. Always seemed to end up with their boat being wrapped up by a giant octopus, or speared by 10 marlin or rammed by a whale and the coast guard saying "well done". Not sure but can't remember Atlantis, or any of the other type of threats that regularly turned up after SC 30. Unlike Marvel where Everything starts or reboots (Human Torch) after one date, DC rebooted it's line up in waves depending on editors. Batman after Tec 327, GA in a later B & B. Wonder Woman with Andru coming on board (although that could be argued many ways)

Some of the pocket size Nembo have dates years after the original but 129 has a newstand date of June, (probably out well before that) and this is August. So my guess is this was sent over very soon after June was finished if not before hand, as the lettering had to be redone.

Many questions there. Not an expert and still learning, but first one of course is that DC gave away most of the art prior to issue 153 to fans who wrote in and art for other issues only pops up occasionally. My guess the other art was given out to drop in fans. One such guy score all the art to GL 26. DC obviously made lots of copies of the stats, and that is what was sent here. We only got the B & W stats but we got the exact same stats as the US although on covers the placement was adjusted, sometimes minimally and other times we got more of the art that the US. Italy had been reproducing DC comics way before Flash arrived and they did a SC 4 at I think around the same time as the US (a few months later). They also got colour stats. I am puzzled by the first three panels. They are different. It appears that not only is the page larger but the image inside these panels has been enlarged. Just these three. Don't know enough about printing to offer a comment. I will put the copies side by side one day and look them over.

Just for extreme hardcore Flash fans some gems from Italy. Not sure if I put these up before. As you can see these are larger in size, don't quite know how they did that, the colours seem more vibrant and the PQ appears better. Enjoy. Also one of my favourite issues. Golden Age Flash. Cameo of Black Canary etc. and Cold and Trickster team up, a sign of things to come.and of course some pages were colour and some were B & W (????) (and by now you can see that we spell colour differently here)

and here is the thing with that signature. I have a slabbed booked signed by Julie, but I have to crack the slab to see it. Julie never signed the cover !! Huge Schwartz fan, thanks so much for sharing. and love the book. I feel the splash is the real page. The cover just a tease. One of the most iconic cover pages ever (if not the most) .. launched the whole thing.

First point of call at NYCC is the dealers. Seemed smaller this year and several regulars (Torpedo etc) I think were missing. Always looking to see how much love our favorite crimson comet is getting from them and in 2019 there were plenty of wall books, mainly in the SC to Flash 140 range, and the boxes were not empty either.This year very few. Also the boxes had very few Flash pre 150 in any shape. This was the only SC4. Price was $5,800 and although it was the victim of the return tear off, it was an extremely clean book with very nice PQ. Have some very interesting news on the SA art soon.

Picked this up while on my trip. I think the time zone actually helped me as it was morning in OZ but early evening in NY. Not seen this in 6 years of looking and a very, nice copy. Very hard to find square bound books without major spine damage and these books were never loved back then. Late 50s when published here. Image is slightly different from US, as it has more right side and less left side.

No, Mick could not pack that gun/prop in his bag. On long haul flights it gets packed in a reinforced box that takes up 70% of the bag. Shame but this Con was all about artist alley. Will post some photos later. Hopefully tomorrow ( my time at least). And would love to catch up with you at one day and we can walk around the dealer tables.

Been away for a month, in the US actually. Investing in marriage rather than comics this time. (think it worked). Was however in Manhattan Oct 6-9, by coincidence and got to the Con on three days. Will shows some photos later, but found Flash 105, 110 and even 123 very hard to find on Dealers tables. (of course always on ebay but usually the BINs are 10-30% over market there). The big surprise was only one SC4 !!. Heaps of AF 15 and enough FF 1, but only one SC4 !!

That is a great 125, hard to find raw under 130 that good

Adams actually was drawing this before he moved to GL. How amazing that would have been.

Been away too long, (closed business in March - but still not finished cleaning up) bought new home and now stuck living between two as the old one needs fixing up to sell, and preparing for a US trip my wife and I have talked about for years ( Oh wait do you mean NYCC is on the week we are in Manhattan, what a coincidence - and funny but we both have tickets too), but when sorting through my boxers pulling out stuff to be signed I cam across this. SA Flash appearance actually amazingly picked this up here (they were never sold here)

Yeah the whole SC4 thing was a throw away idea counter intuitive to the thinking at the time. The first showcase comics had firefighters, frog men, real life adventure stuff. Not fantasy. Superman had a niche, Batman was fighting Aliens monsters and villains with giant props. Wonder Woman was still very, very, early 40s. SC4 stands out in that backdrop almost like Superman in 1937.

I thought the same thing for years, could not understand why some greens were so dark on the SC8, and thought the different blues was age related. The two most talked about examples are FF1 and SC22 dealing with the green. There used to be a favoritism for the very dark green on FF1 not sure how fans reacted to the SC22. I don't understand the printing process completely, but as the run continued on greens, blues and purples changed. All came out of the same run, all could be candidates for white pages etc. Just part of the printing process on something expected to be thrown in the trash next month.

Welcome PDS can't wait to see some of them.

Congrats, quite an achievement these days, many of those books are hot due to movies or TV shows. What are you onto next ?

134 - I was not even close !!!

It is very early, my guess, no checking is 114-120, (say 118), the art for the whole story was for sale back in 2016 to 2018. Don't know the price but as it was on the market for a while it was not cheap.

Julie never signed the cover. Opposite of Stan, whose famous black smudge is probably the biggest signature out there. ( I think deep down he thought comics were rubbish anyway)