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[jmg3637]

Well I started reading as a kid. I think I was reading from about 65 through 70. I read only DC, but had a couple marvels.

 

I read and saved my books Adventure, Action, Superman, JLA and to a lesser extent Flash and GL.In the late 70's I found out that comics had value, but back then none of mine were worth much.

 

A friend introduced me to a comic book store and the owner got me interested in Crisis on Infinte Earths right aout the time that the FLASH died. That was in 85. I restarted collecting then and soon discovered that the best way to build a collection was to buy collections, keep what I wanted and try to sell off the rest.

 

I did that for about seven years, and then after the LA earthquake of 94, put the collecting aside for several years until ebay.

 

 

 

 

 

[frozentundraguy]

Well I started reading as a kid. I think I was reading from about 65 through 70. I read only DC, but had a couple marvels.

 

I read and saved my books Adventure, Action, Superman, JLA and to a lesser extent Flash and GL.In the late 70's I found out that comics had value, but back then none of mine were worth much.

 

A friend introduced me to a comic book store and the owner got me interested in Crisis on Infinte Earths right aout the time that the FLASH died. That was in 85. I restarted collecting then and soon discovered that the best way to build a collection was to buy collections, keep what I wanted and try to sell off the rest.

 

I did that for about seven years, and then after the LA earthquake of 94, put the collecting aside for several years until ebay.

 

 

 

 

 

Great story, plus it's nice to have a new Flash fan on the boards.

I wasn't collecting in 1985, but wasn't that about the time comic book prices peaked due to the Crisis on Infinite Earth series being released?

 

[jmg3637]

I remember at some of the early shows you could get silver age flash for $ a book in nice shape. I know I got one with a samurai on the cover for that price.

 

 

 

I also remember trading with another dealer for my first copy of this

 

 

Still one of my favorite covers of all time. Heck I even enjoy all of the homages to this book

[Hepcat]

And that #123 looks to be a nice one!

 

[frozentundraguy]

Flash 123 is certainly an awesome book to own!

 

I also noticed you have Flash 121, which has one of my favorite Flash covers. (thumbs u

 

 

I do not believe I have posted this book in this thread yet. In addition to Flash I like the Grodd covers.

 

Edited September 17, 2012 by frozentundraguy

[Hepcat]

Grodd only made two cover appearances as a gorilla in the Silver Age. That's shamefully low for such a dastardly menace.

 

[comicjack]

These are some of mine pulled off the rack by me along time ago decent shape!

 

Edited September 18, 2012 by comicjack

[comicjack]

Some more!

[comicjack]

More!

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More!

[comicjack]

One more for now!

[jmg3637]

And that #123 looks to be a nice one!

 

 

That one is the worst of the 3 copies I have. The first and third have spots of color loss in the Green of FLASH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[comicjack]

Three Flash's 123 all pretty nice the one I have left has been loved to death,first time I realized goldenage characters existed.Surprise to me!

[frozentundraguy]

And that #123 looks to be a nice one!

 

 

That one is the worst of the 3 copies I have. The first and third have spots of color loss in the Green of FLASH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Flash 123's, that's a terrific set of duplicates to have.

[jmg3637]

Flash was much bigger than GL and was probably third in DC ranking ahead of Wonder Woman.

 

He had 2 appearances in the 80 page giant series.

 

 

and

 

Edited September 19, 2012 by jmg3637

[Hepcat]

That one is the worst of the 3 copies I have. The first and third have spots of color loss in the Green of FLASH

 

 

 

 

Too awesome!

 

 

Flash was much bigger than GL and was probably third in DC ranking ahead of Wonder Woman.

 

I agree!

 

Edited September 21, 2012 by Hepcat

[frozentundraguy]

I have the 80 Page Giant #4. I was not particularly fond of the cover at first.

 

 

I have found the cover is looking better and better lately.

[jmg3637]

A few more of the early Flash's including the last 10c cover

 

 

This is the upgrade of one of my oldest comics from when i was originally collecting. My copy was a hand me down from somewhere and was nearly loved to death.

 

 

 

[frozentundraguy]

A few more of the early Flash's including the last 10c cover

 

 

This is the upgrade of one of my oldest comics from when i was originally collecting. My copy was a hand me down from somewhere and was nearly loved to death.

 

 

 

Nice.

 

I was recently able to add #125 to my collection.

 

[jmg3637]

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.

 

Then EBAY. I started buying there maybe a year or so after it went big. I had more disposable income back then and bought many of the missing key books. I also enjoyed buying groupings of say 20 silver FLASH and filling a few holes while upgrading whenever I could. I justified it my "adding to inventory". I just never found the time to have a side business dealing in comics on top of my 10+ hours a day I spend running my business.

 

Anyway I don't think I posted this here previously. After my debacle with SHOWCASENEWENGLAND on ebay I had to have a copy of this key.

 

 

 

I believe that Earl from Passport (NOT THE PASSPORT from this chat board) color touched the spine perhaps 30 years ago