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@sfcityduck: Beautiful card, and unique item! Very happy for you. Thanks much to you and jpepx78 both for the reply: I am trying to study the whole period of World War 2 (actually starting from post WW1 Italy and our own situation) and it’s all such fascinating material. That historical study on the Manzanar centre looks great, especially the early chapters documenting the "Anti-Asian tradition in USA". Does that exist in print?

Covers of the new IDW editions aren’t generally so good, though. For the italian stories, except when they use original material, there are a few good but most of the others I’ve seen are really mediocre.

OK, I am now officially out of the club, as I sold mine (which was graded as a 5.5 by CGC) to crassus – and very happy to have done so because he loves it more than I probably would have. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7874018#Post7874018

At first glance, when I saw it for the first time, I thought of Steranko. His style is still very recognizable, and Sinnott's inking is not SO invasive, IMO. :shrug:

To be honest, I never refrained from posting FF material of any kind or any age in the thread… I love its universality. But the more the better! Unfortunately, very little of my BA range is scanned…

P.S. Now I have a #12 thanks to Robert (crassus).

Now would you please stop talking about #4 and make me suffer – it’s the only early one I am missing besides #1 and right now I have NO funds to destinate to it!

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Sorry – it was a mix-up: L(ime)+(H)arry! PM replied and well… Mar-vell copy is tempting. Maybe I could try some Frankenstein experiment on it with my two undercopies. Um… no, just kidding!

How's your copy? If it’s a nice copy with good PQ… who knows? As for Larry, the exchange rate with the UK Sterling is still pretty good to buy… Not so much for me to sell with the Euro… as currently I am buying stuff in Euro.

I’ll recover our PM and we can discuss. Maybe we can find a deal with the #48…

I don’t see the 8.0 but surely it’s pricey now in these grades… I have a pair of undercopies, one is a VG+ and the other about a VGFN if I recall correctly. Still undecided what to do, as I would have loved a VF or so but not much of a choice right now, unless spending thousands in the hope to find a nice copy to replace my nice one above…

Bump for one of my favorite threads… Still looking for the one where we showed and talked about all kinds of illustrated and propagandistic material of the interwar (1919-1939) and wartime (1940-1945) material.

Great piece! Love the bold graphic storytelling! Yup, I recall he already posted it and I love it! Hey, didn’t we use to have another thread (or two) about wartime printed material – more or less graphic in nature or interesting? My research is now focused once more on this, and I am collecting rare and unusual items from everywhere. I recall for sure we had a thread where we showed propaganda illustrations, posters, postcards, leaflets et al. besides comics – that would be great to recover.

Thanks, I take every opportunity to post it as it’s very nice but as I said I’d favor a slightly less nice copy with better printed interiors – not a time to be picky I know! It surely is, my friend. And you? – Have a good Easter time. I have stopped buying Marvels but collecting interwar and wartime material right now (not just comics) related to my research. Stay tuned! @Harry: Yes, initially it was just a desired issue because of the Frightful Four, but then the "double" first apperance (both Medusa, first Inhuman, and the Frightful Four as a team) caused a mix of speculation and genuine interest (hey, I still do not have it, better buy it before it goes out of hand) and now it’s costly…

One of my favorites which I still don’t have is #21… I agree on the "price too step" on the #36, Bill. I would have loved to choose the "perfect" copy among a number but now I am stuck with my nice copy (but which has some insides with slight off-register plates, a defect which most people do not even notice but that bothers me). BTW, this looks a bit nicer than yours, but it was actually a CGC 8.0, heavily hammered because of a slight dust shadow on the back cover…

And classic issues! #57-58 and that nice #28… I think I still don’t have a #28 – right now I am in a "halt" with collecting Marvel books…

1Cool was never alive to begin with. On the contrary, you’re so full of life that you sparkle!

I believe the problem is raised by the fact you said it was graded by another company. You should have just said you were selling it as a raw book assigning your grade. The rest would (or should) have been uninfluent. And you still have to get back to me… (At this point, have a Good Easter!)

Still loving this one! And the Roosvelt biography is beautiful. A kind of propaganda which would not be done this way, today.

.... that FF 44 always takes me back....... those 60's FF's were so weird and bizarre..... they just blew me away. You gotta remember, things were pretty tame and innocent back then, heavy metal hadn't been invented yet, TV was just starting to go to color, and the comics from the House Of Ideas were about the most sophisticated form of entertainment around, definitely larger than life..... for us kids back then, it was our closely guarded secret GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) It was one of the first I decided to purchase when I was early in my stages of collecting the original american editions. #45 and #46 were already a bit more expensive, but I saw I could afford a nice #44 and I had to get Gorgon… And not that was much different in 1978, believe me: we had TV, "sophisticated" stuff and videogames but nothing was more realistic, mysterious and exciting at the same time than a Marvel comic. Suffice to say I started watching the cartoons on TV (they were the Hanna Barbera ones I believe, which were aired later on here) but as I read my first Marvel comic… I never dreamed to watch a cartoon once again!

Very nice story! And that #44 is pretty gorgeous!

Lots of material about the interwar years and World War 2, for my comics-raelated research. Although time is very limited…

Welcome back! How are you?

Aaaaaah! That #1…