BustedFlush

Prettier than the Mile High.

On 1/8/2018 at 5:05 PM, G.A.tor said:

Does that make it my old copy too ?

But I read it.

Now $10,600. Last call and then it's back in the comic book closet. Did I mention it's the 6th Superman appearance? 1st Jimmy Olsen? 1st gorilla cover? Also, thank you for all the kind responses.

What do you mean by We?

Subtle cover, ain't it!

When sales slump, put a gorilla on the cover.

Works every time.

Jules S.

I had this book for 3 years. It's time to set it, as Spike Mulligan would say, "free, free, FREE!"

Very cool book. Let's see more insides.

Thank you Berni for what you meant to me. We will always have Swamp Thing and Frankenstein. And you started, like all of us, as a fan of comic books. Amazing!

You were kind to me the times we talked at Apple Comics and San Diego. I'll always be a fan of your art.

A bit of history. I found this very issue on Ebay at auction and won it for 500. Sent it in for slabbing and it came back and a 7.5 Okajima pedigree. I was totally thrilled. Years later I put it up on, I think, HA. Great book and I hope it finds a nice home.

Berni, My thoughts are with you and your family.

love the steps setup.

He had those stairs custom made especially for these collection shots.

Same printer pull ding at the top. Action 63 brothers.

Action 6, 5.0 Ow/w and Action 24, 9.0 Rockford Ow. I'm totally jazzed. If I open the Rockford I'll show you the insides. First Jimmy Olsen and first mention of the Daily Planet in a comic book. Woof!

January 1940

I'll put up a Frazetta sales thingie in Mixed sales, maybe next week. Fritz rules.

Making it

SlingShot

Those are my recommendations.

Sweet book. A round of Punjabs to you.

It's nice to have a big book.

Great story. I would have robbed my babysitter to work up the scratch for a Action 1.

Keith Richards had a big influence on me. After hearing the early Stones stuff, it made me want a guitar. I remember my mom hearing some stones stuff I was trying to play in my bed room. She proceeded to make me listen to Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf and Bessie Smith. My mom was apparently quite the beatnik and hipster in her day and I didn't know it. She grew up in San Francisco and saw all the big bands live. Found all kinds of early Bee Bop jazz 78s in her record collection after she passed away. She was very supportive of my limited guitar talent at the time.

 

Come on, any body else ever go to their first concert?

 

I was never a concert guy but was lucky enough to have gone to high school and college with one of Bruce Springsteen's cousin during the late seventies and early eighties when Bruce had hit it big. Bruce was from my hometown, Freehold, NJ and I remember him and his buddies playing for our grammar school class and then he really took off with the E Street band when I started high school.

 

Anyway, my buddy got Bruce to send him tickets to a concert at Madison Square Garden with some manner of back stage pass. We had great seats on the floor and he played for four hours! It was an amazing show.

 

The back stage passes basically got us into some kind of bar in the Garden where beers were $4-5 each which was way more than our college budgets could handle; so we split for some other place.

 

I'm still friends with his cousin but we don't seem to go to concerts anymore although we still enjoy tilting back a beer and telling tales of our college days when we see each other.

Great story.