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Well would you look at the time Flash Fans! We are already on page 162!? Lets dig those 162's out, dust 'em off and get 'em ready for the scanner. Meet you back here tomorrow to share. Same Flash time, same Flash channel.

They are absolute gems and i'd love to have one any one of them in almost any condition someday in my Flash collection! I wonder what other international editions there are out there? I know there are Mexican editions from that 123 posted a while back. The UK I believe ran many DC titles in the silver age I believe Flash was among them, pence pricing on the cover. I love the shillings price on the Australian covers. What else is out there, Swedish? Brazilian? Italian!?

Great history there! They are probably pretty rare. I'm sure the print runs were relatively small compared to the states. I'm guessing here maybe 10-20,000? They probably were not saved as much. With print runs this small and applying the Gerber 'less than 1% survived' model and taking into account my recent conversation over on the Golden Age thread. I'd be willing to guess there are less than 100 of each issue in existence.More likely 50 or less for some issues. Your thoughts?

That is so cool! This one is different than Hundred. So Worlds Finest had its own book in Australia? But included other stories?

I am enjoying the new run...still a few issues behind but plan to read those this weekend. They did a sort of reboot in #70 I believe I read a few of those and skipped ahead to #750. So I have to go back and read 73-88, I believe thats where they ended the old numbering and slapped a 750 on the cover?

Terry, you are truly a Master Flash fan! The Yoda to my Luke! Who even knew that Andru drew Spider-Man?! I did not. (lack of interest in Marvel? LoL) As for Gil, I have a special place in my heart for him. His art in comics inspired me. I wanted to draw like him and Carmine and drew and redrew many a cover trying to imitate/emulate them both! As for Murph, I believe he did well and drew many of my secondary favorite covers. And Neil, well he was just awesome! Wow we are on 161 Flash Fans and for once I don't have my comic ready or my scanner warmed up so...lets meet up here tomorrow to show off our 161's!

Andru had the misfortune of trying to follow a legend. But he held his own and I would be proud to own one of his covers someday!

Your "reader" looks like my SC13! Love that 7.5! Just a beauty there Terry!

Nice picks Jay! And that 163 is right around the corner (I think I have doubles of that one)...Last call for 160's Flash Fans just 5 more post to go before we turn the page.

Here's a Grodd cover that should have appeared in the late 50's!

Great cover!

If there aren't anymore 160's I'm good with taking a peak at some of those 50's gorilla covers maybe compare them with a later Flash Grodd cover. Here's a good one that I don't know the answer to...How many times did Grodd appear on the cover of Flash in the silver age?

Aren't there any more 160's out there? I know you some of you guys got one. Dig it out and share.

You could say Julie went kinda ape over gorillas in the 50's ... too much? The dancing banana made it even worse?

My 107 is coverless so...I kinda got Grodd on the cover of my 107 . Oh how I love a good Grodd story! He was my favorite Rouge for many years.

I cant seem to help but save the boxes. Sometimes they do come in handy when mailing out comics. But go figure, I seem to be buying way, way more than I'm selling. I'm trying desperately to avoid being labeled a hoarder

This 80 page giant came complete with 2 Golden Age stories and a reprint of 107!!! What a deal for 25 cents!

Dust off yer 160's and git yer scanners warmed up Flash Fans here we go....

Just one more post to go before we get to 160 Flash Fans! I just received my latest shipment of 5 amazing issues from the end of the run. I now have just 29 issues to go to complete the series from 105 to 350! Just 8 Silver Age left. The rest are 275 or higher. Getting close to the finish line here and I'm starting to wonder what will life be like after this life long quest? And which will be the last issue left for me to get? Will it be 106? Maybe something random like 279 or 282? When I get under 20 maybe I'll post a list and you all can take odds and guess? (You'd have to do it out of view from me) I'll put up a prize for the winner

Very nice trio there Jaylam!!! They look to be in great shape too! The checkered tops only lasted for about a year or so right? I'll have to dig into that tightly packed long box and see later. I thought the pattern was kinda neat, something different. It made me think of racing cars and the finish line .

Absolute pleasure working with Joe, such a unique item and he had the companion comic to go with it!? Very impressed, well packaged and shipped promptly! I would highly recommend him! Looking forward to future transactions!

Thanks Terry they are beautiful! NM all the way! And that awesome hand painted statuette is amazing! It came with that great illustrated "brief history of the Flash" companion! I finally have a buddy for my Jay Gerrick!

And here are my new babies! Thanks to some very special friends here on the boards!!!

Here's my 159 Flash fans!