RedFury Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Nice, Bill! I remember buying one on Ebay in the late 90s and being super-excited to get a book I couldn't see in the Gerber books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timely Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Very happy to add this book to my collection. Back in the early 90s when Matt and I were working together at the comic shop, he embarked on the "Unseen Gold" quest to identify and acquire/scan all of the Gerber white space books. This was the one that really started the quest for Matt and has a special place in our collective comic hearts. It's got a special place in my heart too. Right after the Gerber book came out the San Diego con was 2 months later. I found a Flash #56 (9.0) for 3 times guide & bought it on the spot. 10 minutes later I found the guy who owned the Mile High Copy and bought that copy for 4 times guide. I was with my father at that show. He joking said, "You are cornering the market on Flash 56!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innocuous Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 If only you sold it for 7X guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Nice, Bill! I remember buying one on Ebay in the late 90s and being super-excited to get a book I couldn't see in the Gerber books. Thanks Todd Matt put a lot of work into that project. I'm not sure if the sticker set ever got completed, but I did put the ones that came out into my set of photojournals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Matt put a lot of work into that project. I'm not sure if the sticker set ever got completed, but I did put the ones that came out into my set of photojournals Nerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevenrams Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Matt put a lot of work into that project. I'm not sure if the sticker set ever got completed, but I did put the ones that came out into my set of photojournals Nerd Geek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timely Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 If only you sold it for 7X guide. I did better than that on the Mile High Copy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Nice, very nice. Love that cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 thanks Vern. It is kinda rare, but maybe not as rare as Ernie thought At the time that Ernie was photographing books for the Photo Journal a collector named Joe Dungan had three high grade copies of Flash 56; the Mile High, Pennsylvania, and another non-pedigree (which may have later been also sold as a Mile High). Ernie had photographed some of Joe's books previously and had man-handled them causing some damage. Joe was very grade conscious so he decided not to let Ernie use any more of his books. Beautiful copy, Bill. Congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat-Man_America Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 thanks Vern. It is kinda rare, but maybe not as rare as Ernie thought At the time that Ernie was photographing books for the Photo Journal a collector named Joe Dungan had three high grade copies of Flash 56; the Mile High, Pennsylvania, and another non-pedigree (which may have later been also sold as a Mile High). Ernie had photographed some of Joe's books previously and had man-handled them causing some damage. Joe was very grade conscious so he decided not to let Ernie use any more of his books. Beautiful copy, Bill. Congrats. John Verzyl has some great stories about shooting books for the Photo-Journal. For instance, the Gerber scarcity scale is somewhat skewed toward how easy or difficult it was to locate HG books to photograph on short notice. In reality, some books aren't as rare as originally listed in the Journal because Ernie didn't have time to track down more copies and others, assumed fairly common at the time, are actually quite tough in any grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Nice, very nice. Love that cover +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 thanks Vern. It is kinda rare, but maybe not as rare as Ernie thought At the time that Ernie was photographing books for the Photo Journal a collector named Joe Dungan had three high grade copies of Flash 56; the Mile High, Pennsylvania, and another non-pedigree (which may have later been also sold as a Mile High). Ernie had photographed some of Joe's books previously and had man-handled them causing some damage. Joe was very grade conscious so he decided not to let Ernie use any more of his books. Beautiful copy, Bill. Congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timely Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 thanks Vern. It is kinda rare, but maybe not as rare as Ernie thought At the time that Ernie was photographing books for the Photo Journal a collector named Joe Dungan had three high grade copies of Flash 56; the Mile High, Pennsylvania, and another non-pedigree (which may have later been also sold as a Mile High). Ernie had photographed some of Joe's books previously and had man-handled them causing some damage. Joe was very grade conscious so he decided not to let Ernie use any more of his books. Beautiful copy, Bill. Congrats. John Verzyl has some great stories about shooting books for the Photo-Journal. For instance, the Gerber scarcity scale is somewhat skewed toward how easy or difficult it was to locate HG books to photograph on short notice. In reality, some books aren't as rare as originally listed in the Journal because Ernie didn't have time to track down more copies and others, assumed fairly common at the time, are actually quite tough in any grade. Yes, some of the Gerber scarcity numbers were an educated guess, others were just a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straw-Man Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 i'm going to pick off the fawcett s/h #1's here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eman13 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 speaking of rare, I just picked one of these up! It may not be the prettiest copy but I am excited to have it in my collection, it has a Gerber Scarcity Index of an 8: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-mack Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 i'm going to pick off the fawcett s/h #1's here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.tor Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 i'm going to pick off the fawcett s/h #1's here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicdonna Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 That's a nice looking copy, Billy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRCostigan Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 speaking of rare, I just picked one of these up! It may not be the prettiest copy but I am excited to have it in my collection, it has a Gerber Scarcity Index of an 8: Cool book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
