*DC: Following his appearances in the tryout title Showcase, Barry Allen, the Flash, was awarded his own series, the first issue of which was dated March 1959. However, due to the vagaries of newsstand distribution (the only circulation for comics at that time), it was numbered not #1, but #105, continuing the number from the defunct Flash Comics anthology from a decade earlier! The rationale was that newsvendors, seeing a number ‘1’ on the cover, would assume there was no demand because it was ‘new’, and would frequently return bundles of first issues back to the warehouse without attempting to sell them! This, despite the numbering, is the first issue of Barry Allen’s title, and features the very first appearance of the Mirror Master, a long-standing nemesis who was to become a major player in the Flash’s Rogue’s Gallery. This is a FA copy. The spine is brittle, resulting in most interior pages being separated or loose. The cover is detached, and there is a lower cover spine split, as well as a small discolouration in the region of what we shall euphemistically refer to as Barry’s ‘lower torso’. Nevertheless, this is, at £300, an affordable copy of the premier issue of one of the Silver Age’s iconic figures. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD