Primetime

@CW

My copy

Any Timelys in the collection?

5.5 (FN -)

Full date stamp

Vern, dominating as usual

Nicely placed...Bob Storms just listed a mid grade/white pager Subby 3 for $12,000 on his site.

Nice Vern! The Schomburg sig on my copy is cut off the same way - SCHOM. One of my all time primetime books

The sale may flush out more low grade copies of Cap 1 to the public. Marvel 1 is experiencing that lately with a 4.5, 2.5, and the Pay copy all selling within a three month period, publicly. Prior to that, we’d be lucky to hear of one copy in a year selling publicly or privately it’s good to see the Reilly Cap 1 sell publicly twice in a few years. It had not been seen for over 40 years prior to that…

a no nonsense sheriff

FN- (5.5)

Flash 105 is

congrats July 5 (1956) would be an accurate time frame arrival date.

Just picked these up today 👌🏽

Just peek into your vault for big boy books 🤓👌🏽

that's correct. By the time the Marvels were in full swing, the sales and distribution with IND picked up to all time highs and the text stories were no longer needed and were quickly replaced by house ads for new comics and a fun letters page(s) by the Editors and fan mail.

Look how miscut (but pretty book) my former 9.2 was. Full CCA/red bubble/UFO/word bubble, but miscut IND/12 cent bubble/no red border. As with most books, you shift left and you get more right and vise versa. Challenging to get a good balance of art..

agreed, and don't forget the IND stamp upper left which I always prefer to have fully shown along with the 12 cent bubble (no miswrap).

it's been three months of studying the 7 and looking at (thankfully) hoards of copies to dive into. The 7 is underrated big time - cool, dark, UFO sci-fi cover, Kirby mob scene. and the big central focused billboard sign. And it's the only cover Jack penciled and inked himself which many say is his own self portrait (Reed Richards). The anti-gravity splash swiped from Kirby's very own interior of Showcase 11 is quite an interior treat.

and FULL red star bubble, and word balloon! All tricky to get with a full red border with the blue stripe.

that's how my previous copy looked like, which a ever so little slither of red border. I have been studying FF 6 (full subby left foot), FF 7, and FF 12 the past year for bordedom. These little art cut off details is fun and worth pursuing.

and the blue background stripe next to the red which is even better!

❄️White❄️ pager with full red billboard border (makes it standout) along the spine. The colors are insane on this one