DC didn’t store an archive of film or hard copies of it’s GA books; they literally may not have the material to upload digitally, let alone print. My understanding is that the All-Star Comics Archive series involved private collectors helping out; but All-Star is a series that a lot of early collectors got complete sets of. Flash Comics, on the other hand, is rarer.

As someone with digital copies of every issue of All-FLash, I can tell you that Flash Comics isn’t around in that form either. (Neither are many of the key GA Green Lantern issues introducing characters like the Icicle or Harlequin.) The sheer expense of obtaining the material cuts considerably into DC’s profit, even as an online venture — most current-day readers are uninterested in the GA — and even a digital sales method might have higher costs than it’s “worth” to the bean-counters.

Even those “100-Page Super Spectacular” and “lost Annual” projects of the later 1990s used GA stories that had already been reprinted. That is, they used primarily or exclusively stories for which much more recent film existed.

But since then DC’s entire archive series has fallen on hard times, and it’s likely we won’t see another Flash Archives – GA or regular – for a few years at least.

And similar to Green Lantern, we may have seen the last of the Golden Age archives either way. The GA characters have always had a smaller fanbase, and apparently the archive sales reflect that. If we see another Flash or GL archive, it will almost surely be the main versions, not the GA versions. Which is a shame, since so few comics from the GA still exist.

I suspect that whenever the Showcase line goes digital, we’ll see a LOT more GA material show up online.