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That's a classic beauty Billy Boy!!! It's something I never sought out and now it's WAY beyond what I could feasibly pay for it. Awesome cover!!!

Getting near the end of his run ...

They seem to have it spelled out pretty well, although I didn't know that chronology to be the way of it, that FF annual #1 was so early in the mix.

We're on 48 @bc. If you get lost, we're on par with the Fantastic Four thread.

This is insanely nice!!! It's well above the grade range I try to find, but it's absolutely gorgeous!!! I hope somebody here wins it, because it'd be nice to see it once in a while and nice to know it's in the group!!! I always marvel at the detail and effort put into this cover!!! Kirby and Rule really put some time in on this and it shows!!! Just spectacular!!!

They look great Ricky!!! The new holder looks SO much better than the older ones!!! Plus, the pedigree label looks oh so sweet!!!

Hydroman on front cover of a Heroic comic to Man O'Metal on back cover of a Heroic comic.

Everett water hero to Everett water hero.

July 1963 to July 1963.

Wow, that is fantastic, congratulations on that!!! I agree, there isn't much Kirby/Ditko Silver superhero stuff out there. I think there was a lot more collaborative pre-hero stuff out there. I don't have any, but I'm pretty sure most of it still exists.

I love how Marvel would give their characters little cameos in each other's stories! Strange Tales seemed to do a lot of that, with Sue getting a small role in a Torch story, the FF making a small appearance at the end or like Spidey in #115. To me, it always added an element of cohesiveness in their universe.

Agreed, this is still a bargain priced book considering all that you mentioned AND it's the second appearance of the Sandman! It was only a number of months prior (comics cover dated March 1963) that Marvel would begin having their characters interact with each other, building what we know today as the Marvel Universe. Tiny Marvel was growing and shaping their universe at a tremendous rate, creating so many successful and popular heroes and villains in such a short amount of time, as well as changing the way comic stories were told!

Wish he'd have gotten more cover assignments in this era.

Everett hero to Everett hero.

Possibly my favorite Ditko cover! I could look at it all day!

One of my very favorite pencil and inking combos! Hulk #2

Cover to splash page.

Well, it was a great grab for sure! I really dig that cover and will need to find myself an affordable copy! Thanks for sharing those!!!

Dude, seriously, those are incredible!!! AND both look under graded from here!!!

That is outstanding!!!! Wow, a Human Torch #13 and a Marvel Mystery #48 as highlights of the stack (for ME anyway!)!!! Congratulations!!!

Due to his enormous body of work on SO many characters that I already love, both Golden AND Silver Age, my answer would have to be: Jack Kirby.

Wizard and Roy playing with water to Batman and Robin playing with water.

Thanks! For the longest time, Fawcett was just a publisher where nothing really excited me much, beyond some early Whiz, perhaps some Bulletman issues. Then I started seeing some of Raboy's work and some interiors of Spy Smasher and Captain Midnight and discovered that there was more there than I initially thought. I don't have very many at present, but I DO have what could be called a growing stack! Here's what I feel is one of the "better" ones I've picked up.

In honor of tomorrow ... 27 to 27.