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Always thought FF5 was the most recession proof villain key for Marvel...if I was gifted a silver age key that I had to keep it would be my second choice behind AF15...love that comic and never pulled the trigger on it unfortunately...

First appearance of Crossfire and Earth-7958 versions of FF and others...other than himself, the others were a figment of his imagination I believe...some kind of speculation would be my guess...

I have a story that involves a score and a regret of an almost all OO collection...a buddy and I split the cost of a $5000 collection years ago...it came out to about $5 a book...the collection included almost complete silver runs of TTA, TOS, Avengers, IH, and others...a complete Silver Surfer run that averaged 9.2...can’t remember the DC comics as my buddy picked all those...there were also 2 copies of Mad #1 in VG+...The regrets?...he had an ASM run 1-200 ranging from VG-NM which included an AF 15 in the VG range that wasn’t part of the deal...he wanted another $2000 for it and we couldn’t pull it off...the other regret is selling a lot of these on eBay just a couple of years later...can’t complain as I made a profit but was immediate sellers remorse...The worst that I remember was an Avengers 1-4 lot that I got around $1400 for and the grades were in the FN/FN+ maybe even higher...the sad part is I sold the better copies of everything...

the surfboard is 7' 6'' and it is probably 4' high...the board is wood at the core and some kind of plastic around it...Surfer is plastic but I think the interlocking pegs were metal...would have to look again...it came with a very heavy duty metal frame, but no city background...I liked it better on the floor.

Quick story...at a garage sale...was looking at a full sized Simpson's couch with the whole family sitting on it...homeowner asks if interested in a Silver Surfer theater prop...he had it bubble wrapped to send it to a buyer at $750...buyer never paid, I offered $200...he said no way...gave him my number just in case...he called 15 minutes after I left and countered at $250...I told him my wife would kill me if I went over $200...he said no and we hung up...5 minutes later he calls back and takes the $200 offer as I'm told that his wife was going to kill him if he didn't get rid of it.

1. To be able to look at someone and have their entire life flash in front of my eyes. 2. Something 3. Alfred Hitchcock, I'm a movie fanatic so why not him. Ben Franklin, for obvious reasons and maybe Bo Jackson, the greatest athlete I have ever seen. Great thread OP

I might be wrong but I think Elric was in Deities and Demigods.

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