Gerber No-Shows: Post yours here!

[Metarog]

Here is the actual Chamber of Chills #24... the one in Gerber is incorrect. Thanks to Shiverbones for pointing this out awhile back.

 

[Forbush-Man]

I think, as time goes by, we'll have to go back and have any incorrect scans deleted to clean up this thread.

 

But it's a start on a fine reference thread!

 

Thank you Ernie & Mary Gerber for what you attempted!

[Forbush-Man]

Thanks to you Too, Metarog!

 

Good eye there, Shiver!

[musicmeta]

That is one cool looking cover. Makes me want to buy it.

[Metarog]

Attached is one of the Bond Bread Captain Marvel Giveaways that is missing in Gerber.

[Weird Paper]

Rocket Kelly 5

[Vtcomics]

here's my Flash 56.

 

[showcase4]

 

[adamstrange]

Rocket Kelly 5

 

I like all the covers in this series -- there is a very Flash Gordonish appeal to them.

[Silver Surfer]

 

 

Looks like an old phone book or pizza box.

[Forbush-Man]

[JJBEE2001]

Sorry it's only a VG copy, but it's a Gerber no-show

 

Blue Bolt V7 #5

[podboy66]

[esquirecomics]

All Top #4

 

[Timulty]

I just want to get this clear. Are these books that were never in Gerber or Books that had the listing but the blank spot in Gerber?

[Forbush-Man]

I just want to get this clear. Are these books that were never in Gerber or Books that had the listing but the blank spot in Gerber?

 

Yes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They were never in Gerber & were the blank spots.

[Timulty]

Okay, the blank spots are technically in Gerber. Just no photo. The ones that were never in Gerber at all, like the stretch of Whiz Comics from 120 to 140 for example. Or do you guys mean both?

[Metarog]

I guess technically anything missing is eligible. However, here is what I assume this thread is about...

 

1. Comics that Gerber could not find, i.e blank spaces.

2. Comics that Gerber didn't know existed-he has some comics as "may not exist" or very rare issues that have turned up since the Photo-Journal.

3. Comics that have correct entries but wrong covers- i.e. Jane Arden #2 or All-Top #6.

4. Comics that were inexplicably "skipped" in the Photo-Journal such as Diary Secrets #7 and #9 (unless these were labeled "may not exist") or the missing covers to Barney Baxter.

 

Gerber cut off many runs so he must have had a limit to the # of pages or pics he could fit in. However, I think an important title such as Whiz should have had the whole run in there. Just me 2 cents.

[Timulty]

Well he did put as many in as any other long run comic. I think, looking at the SI that he thought that run was just so common, that putting a photo in there would defeat part of the purpose of the Photo-Journal. And of course, space constraints factored in as well. Boy, if knew how scarce a Whiz #155 really was....well, I think the SI would have been seriously adjusted. Of course, that isn't the only book that has an SI that is out of whack.

[JJBEE2001]

Agreed. My Blue Bolt is listed in the text, but there's a white space instead of a cover photo.

 

As a side note, I think Gerber did an awesome job in compiling these books. I believe these were published in 1989, pre-internet, pre-Ebay, pre-Comiclink, etc. Imagine trying to recreate what he did today. Even with all the internet resources, it would be hard to get a photo of all those books together. Then there's the scarcity index he came up with. People have their own opinions as to how accurate he was, but remember that he did it by gathering sales data over a period of years and travelling thousands of miles to view/photograph several colections.

 

Mr. G, we salute you!