Frisco Larson

Cool DD.

Super-Mystery v4 #1 with a centerfold pic!

Heroic 8 with a splash page pic.

Heroic 2 with a splash page pic. Great Everett!!!

This is pretty low grade but I own a few art pages from it so I need a copy.

Girl in a bubble to MANY girls in bubbles.

Dinosaur on a sub to monster sinks a little boat.

Very interesting. I too prefer the published version but it's cool to see what the first attempt looks like!

Mine too!!! I figured for SURE that more copies would've been certified! It DOES have good stuff on the inside too though!

THAT was probably what caused the malfunction!!!!!

Aww, thanks pal I remember you buying that book (don't recall what you paid, if I even knew at the time) but I remember it being .... strong. By that time, I had been going around for a year or so and buying what Ace books I needed to build the superhero portions of all the Ace titles. Unfortunately, I wasn't alone. It got out that these books ARE COOL!!!!! Like hardly anybody had noticed for YEARS that these were awesome books, with some great artwork and cool characters!!!! Then the other shoe fell as they say. Not only were the Ace books cool, but they were pennies on the dollar compared to publishers like Fox, MLJ and the like, most of which had already seen their value spikes by that point. So, the Ace books shot up in price to the point that trying to acquire them (for me) became more frustrating than fun. MANY Ace books came out of collections and dealers stocks were drained. I believe that it's fair to say a large portion of those books made their way to CGC to be certified and yet there remain areas within those titles that have exceedingly low numbers, lending themselves to the notion that they indeed ARE scare or rare in extant quantity. Your Our Flag #5 is a perfect example of that. You're right, time will tell, but 5 years is already a noteworthy amount of time to indicate a few possibilities. Perhaps there are some copies in collections and those who own them aren't swayed by money, being well enough off that the desire to sell doesn't exist for them, therefore why would they bother certifying their copies? Also possible is what I think: Our Flag #5 was the end of the run and perhaps the print run was low and distribution was poor. I think you've got a rarity my friend, one to be proud of and a great cornerstone in your collection!

Adventures of Captain Marvel to Captain Marvel Adventures.