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[Hepcat]

I basically completed my silver age collection well over a decade ago. I had it maybe @ 65% from my early dealer days in the 80's That jumped significantly when i bought the 17k collection in the early 90's. I spent years just sorting through and integrating my keeper collection vs my inventory.

 

A dream job for sure!

 

After my debacle with SHOWCASENEWENGLAND on ebay....

 

What happened?

 

 

I had to have a copy of this key.

 

 

I've decided to count myself fortunate if I can just complete my Flash run down to Showcase 8 with the intro of Captain Cold.

 

Edited September 21, 2012 by Hepcat

[jmg3637]

when I have the energy to relive "my Ebay nightmare" I'll relate my dealings with Dan

 

Here are the rest of the showcase issues. most of these came from ebay

 

 

this showcase was a part of by only Soethby's auction win

 

 

 

Edited September 24, 2012 by jmg3637

[Hepcat]

Is your Sotheby's Showcase the best of your Flash Showcases?

 

[Hepcat]

They all appear as if they've already been pressed. They have that flattened look..

 

 

Here's one I've not yet posted:

 

 

 

[Hepcat]

Still, they're very nice copies without too much wear visible at all.

 

Edited September 25, 2012 by Hepcat

[jmg3637]

a few more to bump the thread

 

first GRODD cover

 

 

 

2nd golden age Flash only 6 issues later

 

[VintageComics]

They all appear as if they've already been pressed. They have that flattened look..

 

 

How can you tell if a book is pressed or looks flat from a straight on, 2 dimensional scan?

 

 

[electricprune]

 

 

Wow, nice!

[Hepcat]

They all appear as if they've already been pressed. They have that flattened look..

 

 

How can you tell if a book is pressed or looks flat from a straight on, 2 dimensional scan?

 

Good eyes and leftover 3-D glasses from the movies.

 

[Hepcat]

a few more to bump the thread

 

first GRODD cover

 

 

I've found the #127 to be tough.

 

[paperheart]

a few more to bump the thread

 

first GRODD cover

 

 

I've found the #127 to be tough.

 

that's a head scratcher. there's a boatload in 9.4. seemed like heritage had one in about 6 auctions in a row a year or so ago.

[jmg3637]

here are the next few

 

a Rogues Gallery on the cover

 

 

the first Flash Green Lantern Crossover

 

 

[Hepcat]

a few more to bump the thread

 

first GRODD cover

 

 

I've found the #127 to be tough.

 

that's a head scratcher. there's a boatload in 9.4. seemed like heritage had one in about 6 auctions in a row a year or so ago.

 

That then may be the problem right there. They're all being slabbed to keep them out of my hands.

 

I remember that just over five years a bunch of 9.2 and 9.4 Flashes from the 1960-62 period went for absolutely staggering prices on Heritage. Perhaps they were the highest graded copies at the time. For what have 9.4 Flash 127s sold more recently?

 

Edited September 25, 2012 by Hepcat

[jmg3637]

here are the next 3 in my photobucket account

 

 

 

and the "new" costume for kid flash

 

[Hepcat]

I had succeeded in acquiring #134 and #135 as back issues when I was a kid but I never got my hands on a #133 at the time so that I always regarded that issue as very exotic.

 

[Flash105]

Did anyone see this. That has got to be a special piece.

 

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7066&lotIdNo=157001

Edited September 30, 2012 by Flash105

[Speedy-D]

Yeah, no doubt. I'll be keeping my eye on that bad boy.

[jmg3637]

 

 

[Hepcat]

Here's some of mine. Sending them out to CGC for my first ever submission, we'll see how I dig the process. Some of my favorite books, but they'll likely have to go as my original art habit doesn't pay for itself:

 

 

 

 

 

Okay, so what happened here?

 

[jmg3637]

and a few more

 

a rogues team up

 

 

another Green Lantern Crossover

 

 

I love the flash running so fast that your POV can see many muliptle flashes in the circle