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(1963 for sure) Very cool. Don't suppose that is your undercopy?

I can speak for, and if you wish, help you, just about my country (Italy). The first edition of Fantastic Four #1 and Fantastic Four #5 aren’t from the respective long-term "I Fantastici Quattro", but came out in the late 1960s within supplements to the magazine "Linus". In fact, they are the absolutely better printed versions of those stories I have seen (in black and white). I have the first episode of Fantastic Four and I treasure it. They aren’t so difficult to find (and not so expensive), and since I have to look for the issue with the FF#5 (Doctor Doom) for me as well, if you wish I will see if I find them also for you. As per the regular issues, I Fantastici Quattro #1 and L’Uomo Ragno #1 are a little costly in high-grade, but the covers are nothing special: they aren’t tweaked at all, they just use different images. Early Sgt. Fury issues have been published in Italy before Editoriale Corno started to publish the Marvel Age as a whole. They came out from a little publisher called Casa editrice "Le Maschere" and they are pretty rare (I have never seen them). The full Silver Surfer series was published as an accompanying feature in the pages of the italian edition of Daredevil (called "Devil" in Italy). Doctor Strange #169 will already be yours if you find a copy of L’Uomo Ragno #1, since the Doc was published as an accompanying feature (with a considerable time-lapse) side by side with early Spidey adventures. See here: http://atomik67.altervista.org/COMICS-EDITORI/CORNO/UR-DOCUMENTI/UR_Crono1.htm The full Sub-Mariner run has been (aptly) featured in the pages of I Fantastici Quattro. Hope this helps, if I can be of help, send me a PM. You definitely have a lot of knowledge. PMS on the way.

Foreign editions can be fascinating and I find them especially interesting when the covers are tweaked (and sometimes the story, as well) to reflect the local mores and/or political situation. If anyone has original first-in-country publications of FF1 or ASM 1 or TOS39 I will pay competitively. Also interested in other specific issues, partial list: FF 1, 2, 4, 15, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 52 and annual 2; ASM 1, 9, 25, 54, 59, 68, 94, annual 5, spectacular spider-man 1 and 1 (if those exist; Sgt. Fury 1, 13, 18, 19, 64, 75; silver surfer 1, 10, 17, 18. Dr. Strange 169, Strange Tales 135, TOS 39, 45, Sub-Mariner 1, 39.

Some of the overstreet info is wrong. frinstance, Hawkgirl predates wonder woman, and Owl girl predates hawkgirl, and black widow (anti-heroine) predates owl girl.

I've never seen a slabbed copy of this issue. What a beautiful copy! What surprises me is that CGC chose to encapsulate this side of the cover. I assume that is because Kennedy won, but the Nixon side has all the distribution marks and month/year info. I wonder, does CGC give the submitter a choice of which side they want to face the front? The Nixon side also has the issue number. I never thought about that, which would indicate they thought it more likely that Nixon was going to win. I can't imagine CGC doing it, but I would gladly have paid extra to have this slabbed with labels on both sides.

Thought there was no Politics on this board?

Little known fact: It's got the first black hero in a Marvel comics -- African prince with access to magic -script by Stan Lee and drawn by John Romita -- 12 years before Black Panther

Back cover is from the reader copy I keep with the slabbed book

Sure thing!

S'Rozdestvo y S'novim Godim, Drusya!

Hey now, let's leave Nic Cage out of this. There's a difference between trailer home deco and geek. Nic is more geek though he would probably not take offense at the suggestion he's at ease with trailer trash.

Why? Only the anti-abstract, anti-Lichtenstein posters in this thread were saying that the only reason for the success of any modern artist was good marketing. I don`t think any of the pro-modern art posters ever agreed with that. So Kinkade might get an "A+" in that department, but he fails on all of the other counts that the pro-modern posters were saying were important, such as originality and irony. Well, maybe Kinkade scores high on irony because the whole time he`s producing this stuff he probably knows it`s total krap and the people who buy it are saps. Which just goes to show that there are a lot of people in this world with horrible taste, and that fools are easily parted from their money. I still can`t get the image of those horrific Snoopy paintings out of my mind, especially the big ones which raised the question how do they get them to fit inside a trailer home? I've seen more than a few eight-figure homes that were decorated with deep pockets and a trailer home mentality.

Oh the irony! Nobody needs to reproduce or modify Lichtenstein's work when they can go back to the source material themselves and redraw it themselves in their own way (perhaps better?), print it up big and put it in a show.

The Pep 25 and 32 are both super hard to find nice copies of. I tried for a long time and never could. Unsung key issues, too. I believe the 25 is the first appearance of Archie's jalopy, second only to the Batmobile in the pantheon of comic book vehicles.

Just be glad that chip is not there, with a tear seal on it. That would drive down its value by 85%.

That "agneto"is a powerful "uper-villain." Hope the "-men" can stop him.

Not saying it's true in all cases but I've seen more than a few .5s that I would consider more desirable. Granted they might not have had the same page quality, etc, (and if that matters more to you than a big piece out of the cover then this is your preferred copy) My basic point is that a number alone can't tell you whether books are equal in terms of desirability, so there will be a disparity in prices on low grade books with identical numbers, and people shouldn't expect that all copies with the same number will bring the same price -- or that a high or low price for one example will automatically mean an identically numbered book will get the same high or low price, because the defects strike buyers very diffrerently.

It was a strong price (using Gator terminology) considering it was a very poor presenting copy with a large piece of cover missing essential art. Basically it was a 1.0 that looked worse than many 0.5s But I'm sure that won't stop savvy buyers from quoting that sale as the going price for 1.0s that look like 5.0s I think it could have looked a lot worse for a 1.0. The color on the book was very strong, and it didn't have the dingy appearance that many very low grade books have. And off-white to white pages for an Action #7 is nothing to sneeze at. Wasn't trying to say it was overpriced or strong for a 1.0 but rather that it was a strong price for a book with such a big piece missing and that numbers alone can't tell you how desirable a book is because opinions vary widely about what is acceptable appearance in lower grade books, hence the wide variance in prices realized for books with identical label numbers yet vastly different appearance. But clearly there were at least two people who thought it was about that or more and there may well be more who think so the next time it goes up for sale

It was a strong price (using Gator terminology) considering it was a very poor presenting copy with a large piece of cover missing essential art. Basically it was a 1.0 that looked worse than many 0.5s But I'm sure that won't stop savvy buyers from quoting that sale as the going price for 1.0s that look like 5.0s

What? No new war books posted yet in this Memorial Day?