Showcase #4. “NG” Fresh CGC Slab. Not expensive. Origin Silver Age Flash

Description: Showcase #4. Early 1956. Slabbed fresh. “NG” grade provided by CGC. Slab #4290068001 After 25 years, I was able to HQ photocopy a bunch of pages missing from another copy after getting this one. If you have a decent copy with a cover maybe we can trade. This book is a distribution return. Coverless and the splash was sliced off…. which is what retailers used to do to get their money back on unsold comics and magazines from distributors prior to about 1974. A recent slabbed example of this book in 1.8 grade sold for $6300 on eBay a few weeks ago. I’m asking $2700 for this copy. I have 22 years experience on eBay and a 100% positive rating: I have provided a full set of photos taken prior to CGC slabbing. The second Flash story is fully complete. Perfect as the inexpensive filler for a collection OR you can use it for restoration. Page color is nice and as you can see, the center pages and staples are still there. Since you are here reading about Showcase 4, I'll provide some perspective. Back in the fall of 1975 I was in high school and a friend and his father took me to my very first comic book convention. It was held in a convention center at the Seattle Center (think Space Needle grounds) and it cost me $5 to enter. Back then, comic shows were quite primitive. The seller would put their books on top of one or two 8x10 folding tables: there were no back drops or portable shelves at this time. Specialized comic book bags were rare and if they existed they were cheap acid-filled plastic or ZipLocs and no acid-free boards existed. They would stack the comics by title or genre on or beneath the table and you'd thumb through them one by one. Dealers would write the asking price of the book on the inside splash page up in the corner... which is why sometimes you see $ or cent prices in pencil in old collections. For the more expensive comics, dealers would use 3-ring Photo Holder Covers and put them in binders. What you could find in Seattle at the time were Dells, Marvel, DC, EC's were big, and a few other odd types. No Timely's. Well, that show is where I saw my first Action #1 under plastic. It would have taken only $100 to buy it because it did not have a back cover and the splash page had been torn out just like this Showcase 4. It was probably a distribution return copy. Now I could have borrowed $50 from my friend to add to my measly $50 I had brought with me and snatch it up but I did not bother because that show was where I got an interest in Crime and Horror comics of the 1950's and was where I bought my first Murder Incorporated #1. But I did handle and admire that Action #1 (in the sleeve!). I can recall one dealer had tall stacks of post-war Flash, Sensation and Wonder Woman comics in really nice shape. He wanted $5 each for them. It was like the guy took them right out of the attic in which they had been stored and brought them right to the show. So getting this Showcase #4 today I think is very similar to that Action #1 back in '75. There are probably fewer copies in collectors hands too, based on GoCollect slab counts. I'll ship this to North America only. To Canada, $60 shipping express flat with price exposure to customs. To USA, $30 post office express. No returns on slabbed books.

Price: 2700 USD

Location: Covina, California

End Time: 2024-02-05T18:08:04.000Z

Shipping Cost: 30 USD