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[flashlites]

On 8/5/2023 at 2:13 PM, Jaylam said:

By the mid 60's, Flash was an 8 times a year book, 9 if you count the 80 page giants when they started to include them in the regular numbering starting with #160. Issues #107 and #113 did have July cover dates when the book was bi-monthy until they switched to 8 times a year.

 

Ooooooooo! That's right Jaylam!!! 107 does have a July cover date!!!

[flashlites]

[Terry E. Gibbs]

Won something I have chased for over 6 years now, first time I have ever seen it. Was only bidder (??), very strange but hopefully will have a photo up in a week or two.

[flashlites]

On 8/13/2023 at 7:36 PM, Terry E. Gibbs said:

Won something I have chased for over 6 years now, first time I have ever seen it. Was only bidder (??), very strange but hopefully will have a photo up in a week or two.

Knowing you Terry its going to be something AMAZING!!!!

[frozentundraguy]

On 8/5/2023 at 9:34 AM, flashlites said:

I have been AWOL from this thread fans for months now. It's great to see and catch up on all the activity. Loved seeing you all help each other out on the Ebay thing! And of course sharing all these classic covers! I just watched this again recently and I have forgotten now if I've shared this before but here goes Two great youtube videos to enjoy:

 

Glad to see you were able to break free and rejoin us

[Terry E. Gibbs]

It has arrived. I have been hunting a copy for over six years. I knew it was out there but very elusive. A few of these I have seen several times, including the 123 version (four times) but this one not until this month. Last two years faithfully checking ebay every night and morning and for basically maybe 9 months to a year nothing. Then boom last month four different Hundreds dropped. Had one of them and grabbed the other three. In the past I have paid insane money for these copies, and this one was an auction, so again I was expecting it to hurt. Don't know why but that week I was only bid.

Honestly I could quit now. There are several others I want, but if I don't land them or the price is nuts I am okay. This one though, I had to have.,

[flashlites]

On 8/20/2023 at 8:49 PM, Terry E. Gibbs said:

It has arrived. I have been hunting a copy for over six years. I knew it was out there but very elusive. A few of these I have seen several times, including the 123 version (four times) but this one not until this month. Last two years faithfully checking ebay every night and morning and for basically maybe 9 months to a year nothing. Then boom last month four different Hundreds dropped. Had one of them and grabbed the other three. In the past I have paid insane money for these copies, and this one was an auction, so again I was expecting it to hurt. Don't know why but that week I was only bid.

Honestly I could quit now. There are several others I want, but if I don't land them or the price is nuts I am okay. This one though, I had to have.,

AWESOME!!! So happy or you Terry!!!

[Terry E. Gibbs]

I used to read these as a kid, but never saw this one. Back then I was very young, and just checked the newsagent every few days, and only one ever newsagent. My first experience with the "Temperature twins" was in an Australian version of 155 (complete with a Superman cover story !!!). I loved them both and they have been my favourite DC characters ever since.  I did not read the 140 story until twenty years later when I got my first Overstreet update and started chasing US dealers. The two of them never disappoint.

[flashlites]

Terry, thanks for sharing - I just love seeing them! It does seem that this is an unaltered version of the 140 cover? I know for some, there were adjustments/alterations to the original cover art. So... what else is inside? What other titles made it inside that months issue of Hundred?

[Terry E. Gibbs]

Hmm before it disappears into a box, let's see.

Pow Wow Smith - from 1952,  John Jones, Roy Raymond from 1953 (great art by Ruben Moreira) Atom art by Kane & Greene), Hopalong Cassidy by Alex Toth from 1950, Jimmy Olsen by Swan, Wonder Woman from 143 by Andru. 

When you see Toth back then and later Infantino you can see the influence of Milton Caniff on both of them (not sure Toth ever admitted it but Infantino did) . If so inclined one day search google images for "Caniff Dragon lady". Not all the time but I can definitely see some of early Iris West in her.

 

[Jaylam]

On 8/21/2023 at 5:02 PM, Terry E. Gibbs said:

I used to read these as a kid, but never saw this one. Back then I was very young, and just checked the newsagent every few days, and only one ever newsagent. My first experience with the "Temperature twins" was in an Australian version of 155 (complete with a Superman cover story !!!). I loved them both and they have been my favourite DC characters ever since.  I did not read the 140 story until twenty years later when I got my first Overstreet update and started chasing US dealers. The two of them never disappoint.

I find it quite interesting and a new niche to explore about how these comic books were reprinted and repackaged in foreign markets. 

[flashlites]

I don't think my Flash collection will be complete without some of these classic foreign reprints.

[Jaylam]

Recent pick up from Circle City Comics on the northwest side of Indianapolis. Mid-grade at best but still a nice copy. They got in this collection of mid 60's DCs from a local collector. They all had one feature in common, you could tell the books had their pages folded around to the back of the book when the books were read thus causing a lot of stress near the spine on the front cover and some spine roll. Of the few copies of the Flash in this collection, this one was probably in the best shape. 

 

 

[flashlites]

On 8/26/2023 at 10:26 AM, Jaylam said:

Recent pick up from Circle City Comics on the northwest side of Indianapolis. Mid-grade at best but still a nice copy. They got in this collection of mid 60's DCs from a local collector. They all had one feature in common, you could tell the books had their pages folded around to the back of the book when the books were read thus causing a lot of stress near the spine on the front cover and some spine roll. Of the few copies of the Flash in this collection, this one was probably in the best shape. 

 

 

Great book, awesome find! I love it when I come across collections like this at my LCS!  Well  read and well loved comic!

[silverseeker]

So excited to finally land a nice copy of this book (a cracked-out CGC 8.5)!

I always loved this cover, and the story was pretty good too...

[Terry E. Gibbs]

On 8/25/2023 at 3:25 AM, Jaylam said:

I find it quite interesting and a new niche to explore about how these comic books were reprinted and repackaged in foreign markets. 

Back in the late 40s or 50s DC allowed an Australian publisher to print DC comics. Back then it was Batman and Superman. (I actually have a very nice maybe 8.0+ first appearance of Mr Freeze - Zero at the time), then around 1956 Kenmure Press started to get these big bundles of stats. Usually it featured a modern story, Showcase 4, Showcase 22, plus GA, WW, MM, Challengers, and a collection of stuff going back to early 50s. Big Town, Foley of the .., Mr. District Attorney, plus stuff from My Greatest Adventure, and later into the 60s stuff from Julie's Mystery in Space. The rights to these characters continued right until the rise of independent comic shops in the early 80s. DC never distributed them here, but stuff they started with from 1960 (?)  was sold here. I hear you say Yay ???, well not really. Basically all of DC's failed 60's titles. Metal Men, Metamopho, Hawkman. The only one sold here by DC and printed here was JLA.

The fact we got the US art meant we had the alternate cover to 105 and Sc8, and many other covers were played around with so it would fit the page.

As Australia has a much smaller population than most countries where DC comics were printed, Italy, Germany, and some Sth American countries,  they tend to be much harder to find.

The other feature is the paper. The story pages seem to age about the same as US but the covers are a lighter paper and almost never seem to oxidize. They are still nice and white on the inside, which is keeping their colours often quite bright.

[flashlites]

Pulled these out of the box today just to look at them all together. And look at what I found on eBay last week- a copy of the 1979 Comic Book Price Guide! Oh the hours I spent pouring over that book when it came out. I believe it was my first guide. My first (coverless) copy of 107, even without a cover still part of the gang. I was thrilled to have it, still am!

[Terry E. Gibbs]

And all raw. In reading the guide this year there appears to be some pushback from collectors on mid to low grade slabs. Many think the extra cost not worth it, especially if the book has been washed, pressed gain and again. I kind of agree. Very nice collection. Also I love all the early guides before they were that swamped with moderns the early books have been shunted to the side.

[silverseeker]

Cracked-out CGC 7.5...love this cover, and jazzed to finally land a copy!

[flashlites]

On 9/3/2023 at 2:00 AM, silverseeker said:

Cracked-out CGC 7.5...love this cover, and jazzed to finally land a copy!

Classic cover! I will have to read this story again its been many, many years  - I know why I would crack something out of a CGC case, if you would share with us maybe why you did with this one? And also maybe later give some tips on the best way to this? They seem to be stuck in there pretty good. --- anyway Flash 112 at 7.5! That's worth at least 3 dancing bananas right Flash fans!?   Congratulations!!!