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3 hours ago, Terry E. Gibbs said:

Yep, much better, and considering Julie loved those Gorilla covers and Carmine drew primates so well, I wonder why they went the soft general interest route. Only two Grodd covers in the silver age and I don't think either are CI's best work.

The very first Flash I bought myself was #172 in 1967. The cover really caught my eye and it is still one of my favorite Flash covers. Simple and striking with the all black background. I looked for a long time to find a decent high grade copy and finally picked this one up off ComicConnect about 4 years ago. It probably would have gotten a 9.4 grade but it has a very slight color break along the left top edge of the front cover near the spine.

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I also had this one, but I just sold it on ebay. Another striking and beautiful black cover. I found it unusual that they put out a black cover on 2 consecutive issues and if you count #175, that made 3 out of 4. Looking through the Silver Age, it was very rare for a predominate color scheme to be used on consecutive issues of the same title.

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16 hours ago, Jaylam said:

The very first Flash I bought myself was #172 in 1967. The cover really caught my eye and it is still one of my favorite Flash covers. Simple and striking with the all black background. I looked for a long time to find a decent high grade copy and finally picked this one up off ComicConnect about 4 years ago. It probably would have gotten a 9.4 grade but it has a very slight color break along the left top edge of the front cover near the spine.

I love the cover for 172. Grodd seems enormous and menacing, and the cover helps establish him as one of Flash's most powerful enemies. Infantino was at the top of his game during this period, imho.

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On 1/30/2019 at 12:16 PM, adampasz said:

I love the cover for 172. Grodd seems enormous and menacing, and the cover helps establish him as one of Flash's most powerful enemies. Infantino was at the top of his game during this period, imho.

Love those Grodd covers too. Did someone say only 3 Grodd covers in the silver age? I will have to check that.

On 1/24/2019 at 9:49 PM, Bomber-Bob said:

That's a solid copy. Interesting, though it does not look like color fade, the blue areas look more grayish/blue on your copy. It may also be your scanner giving this effect.

 

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Some photos and run down from last night's comic book club meeting. It was Flash night. Guess who brought the goodies😀? I picked out 3 books from each decade for the retrospective. Tons of fun for a Flash fan! We watched Flashpoint, and I gave a presentation for an audience who for the most part are Marvel fans. A chance for them to see something new. The multi-verse concept was discussed quite a bit. Sadly I did not have a 123 to show them. (One day I hope soon, I will have one) in one of the photos you can see my coverless 107 peaking out in the 1950's group. I even brought out 'grandpa' my Flash #3 for a rare appearence!

 

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2 hours ago, bocabill said:

Thanks Mark, for selling me that beautiful Flash #108 CGC 8.5 which should have been graded between 9.0 and 9.2 (for comparison I included a pic of a 9.2 which is clearly inferior to the 8.5).  

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I would definitely prefer the 8.5 over the 9.2. The 9.2 has that soft upper left corner while the 8.5 has 4 sharp corners. I think the 8.5 has some slight top edge bends and the top staple has two tiny tears/stress. The 8.5 is centered better and seems to be fresher looking with outstanding cover colors. Buy the book, not the grade. 

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5 hours ago, Bomber-Bob said:

I would definitely prefer the 8.5 over the 9.2. The 9.2 has that soft upper left corner while the 8.5 has 4 sharp corners. I think the 8.5 has some slight top edge bends and the top staple has two tiny tears/stress. The 8.5 is centered better and seems to be fresher looking with outstanding cover colors. Buy the book, not the grade. 

I always loved that purple cover! I had a nice copy in the 80's (not as nice as these amazing specimens!) but my current collection I've had to settle for a copy that has faded. I am glad to have one again but looking at it and remembering what I had leaves me feeling a bit unsatisfied. Seeing these wonderful examples is great. If you ever decide to throw out one or the other I'd take either no questions asked(worship)

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3 hours ago, Bomber-Bob said:

Okay, we are almost @ Page 108 anyway, here is my copy, a Pedigree Ohio copy in 7.0 . I think, for whatever reason, CGC is strict on this issue. I think my 7.0 looks better than the grade also. (shrug)

 

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Nice copy Bob!

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2 hours ago, flashlites said:

If there's anyone out there who can give me some tips on scanning please PM me. For some reason this chat board won't accept my jpg files. Its kinda driving me crazy! Thanks, your pal Flashlites:pullhair:

It should accept JPG, I think you must be doing something wrong. Are you attaching the JPG here...............

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