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The Rarest GA DC Comics

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On another thread, Ian wrote:

Easily the twenty rarest DCs are as follows.

 

 

1 - DOUBLE ACTION 1

2 - NEW ADVENTURE 13

3 - BUZZY 70

4 - DOUBLE ACTION 2

5 - ACTION COMICS "THE VIGILANTE" 1947 THEATRE GIVEAWAY

6 - SUPERGEAR

7 - THE SUPERMAN BRADMAN COMIC

8 - THE FAT AND SLAT JOKE BOOK

9 - NEW ADVENTURE 26

10 - JACKIE GLEASON AND THE HONEYMOONERS 12

11 - FEATURE FILMS 4

12 - THE BIG BOOK OF FUN COMICS

13 - FLASH 56

14 - HOUSE OF MYSTERY 17

15 - NEW FUN 6

16 - "FREIHOFER'S" ALL AMERICAN COMICS GIVEAWAY

17 - NEW COMICS 1

18 - DETECTIVE 2

19 - SUGAR AND SPIKE 2

20 - MORE FUN 14

 

Now remember, this has nothing to do with either value or desirability.

Just purely based on rarity alone.

And four of those are from the 1950s and two of them are much later, but no less rare.

And I myself don't have eight of the twenty.

But in my learned opinion, those are the twenty rarest DC comics.

 

He was quickly corrected in that the particular thread was about the scarcity of the TOP 20 comics--not the relative scarcity of DC comics in general.

 

So I thought I'd open up this thread to talk PURELY about the SCARCITY of books.

 

Where would the 15-cent variants fall on this list?

This much we know:

 

1. At least 3 copies of the Batman #2 variants exist.

2. At least 1 copy of More Fun # 59 variant exists

3. Detective Comics #44 exist? Any others--exist?

 

I might think that these would snag the first three spots on the list.

 

How many copies of Double Action # 1 exist?

Or was that an ashcan--and if so, does it count?

Ashcans are (if my understanding is correct) one of a kind and were never distributed, so I would think they'd be a seperate catagory by definition.

 

Charlie

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I might think that these would snag the first three spots on the list.

 

Obviously in reverse order.

 

? Exist wouldn't count until they were confirmed.

 

#1. More Fun #59 variant (1 known to exist)

then

#2. Batman #2 variant

or

Double Action #1 (?)

then

the list Ian provided?

 

Or, if Double Action # 1 wasn't an ashcan, are there more than 1 copy? Are there more than 3? That may take the # 2 spot, depending..

 

If Double Action # 1 *was* an ashcan, don't *all* the ashcans have to share the #1 spot? Can we even count it in that case?

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