What is a 'rare' comic book?

What is a 'rare' comic book?

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The term rare in comic books is the same as it is in any other industry or hobby. It's when there's only a few known to exist of a particular comic book, say perhaps, one to twenty known copies of a rare comic book .So books such as this Flash Comics which is an ashcan comic, this is a specialized, legal prototype that was used or was attempted to be used to secure the trademark to the title, Flash. Now Fossett Comics in this case lost out to D.C. Comics and this familiar character became Captain Marvel, or Shazam to the modern day industry or person who collect comics. It could also be such as this prototype or promotional, 'If An A-Bomb Falls'. There was only about three or four known copies of this 1950s obvious Atomic Bomb type scare, or cold war type comic, that was produced primarily here in the Washington, D.C. region.