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Fantastic Four Collecting Thread!
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trmoore54

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WOW! Nice books all...CONGRATS drummy on the 17...beauty! :applause: CONGRATS Bob on the 23! Veranize! :headbang: CONGRATS to everyone else who won something...

 

 

picked up a nice 37 9.0 to fill the hole...tried to steal the 9.0 FF 50 at $909 and was snaked on extended bidding at $925...still a great price for a nice OWW copy...

 

Those 10288s are nice...

 

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fantastic_four

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The Mass copy sold for $3500 last fall

 

The Massachusetts FF #31 is the most overgraded 9.4 I've personally ever seen; it has four color-breaking 1/4" spine dings hugely visible on the black areas. I'd shake my head at four 1/8" breaks, but they're closer to 1/4"--it's just insanity. :ohnoez: The book has been sold and re-sold about 4-5 times over the last 6-8 years. The fact that Marnin let it go when he held most of the other Massachusetts FFs says a lot about it.

 

I passed on that book when it sold for $1000 when Bob Storms liquidated it with the rest of his FF collection back in 2003/2004 and I'd pass at that same price again--looks no better than a 9.0 to me.

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This week I finally picked up a nice copy of FF #2 and finished my FF run. I now own the entire run in 8.0 or better with the exception of my #1 being CGC 7.0 and my #3 being a restored 9.4. I'll keep upgrading, but I'm planning to mostly hold off on that until I pick up a nice Amazing Fantasy 15. Since I won't be buying many FFs until I get the AF15, I also went ahead and did what I'd been avoiding for years--I posted my FF run into the CGC Registry, there's a link to it in my sig line. I'll put scans up at some point as well, although if you're good at reverse-engineering scan addresses from book pictures I post they've been available for public viewing on the web for most of the last decade.

 

Glad to finally have the #2 out of the way! I'd been stymied in getting it for the last three years. :pullhair:

 

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This week I finally picked up a nice copy of FF #2 and finished my FF run. I now own the entire run in 8.0 or better with the exception of my #1 being CGC 7.0 and my #3 being a restored 9.4. I'll keep upgrading, but I'm planning to mostly hold off on that until I pick up a nice Amazing Fantasy 15. Since I won't be buying many FFs until I get the AF15, I also went ahead and did what I'd been avoiding for years--I posted my FF run into the CGC Registry, there's a link to it in my sig line. I'll put scans up at some point as well, although if you're good at reverse-engineering scan addresses from book pictures I post they've been available for public viewing on the web for most of the last decade.

 

Glad to finally have the #2 out of the way! I'd been stymied in getting it for the last three years. :pullhair:

 

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I've seen alot of #2s over the years, including 9.4s, and this one BLOWS them all away!! Perfectly centered.

 

Congrats ff ! (worship)

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Amazing book, and congratulations on you completion. As I just restarted this month what I began 25 years ago, and should never have abandoned, I can see this taking me perhaps up to ten years to complete. And that is with the lofty goal of 7.0 or better (barring 1 & 5)...

 

Congratulations! :D

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Amazing book, and congratulations on you completion. As I just restarted this month what I began 25 years ago, and should never have abandoned, I can see this taking me perhaps up to ten years to complete. And that is with the lofty goal of 7.0 or better (barring 1 & 5)...

 

Congratulations! :D

 

THANKS!

 

I started collecting them in high grade in 2000...so yea, a decade is just about right! (thumbs u

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I've seen alot of #2s over the years, including 9.4s, and this one BLOWS them all away!! Perfectly centered.

 

Congrats ff ! (worship)

 

Yea the QP and PQ are nice, but it doesn't look undergraded. I count a number of color-breaking spine nicks. I can't tell exactly how many from that scan, could be anywhere from three to eight, although if it's as many as eight it looks as if most are tiny at about 1/32".

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Congrats Rudd, awesome collection. I remember you showing me your personal website several years ago, and it's crazy how far your collection has come.

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Congrats Rudd, awesome collection. I remember you showing me your personal website several years ago, and it's crazy how far your collection has come.

 

THANKS! If they'd just legalize marijuana, I think it'd actually come long even faster. :wishluck:

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Congrats Rudd, awesome collection. I remember you showing me your personal website several years ago, and it's crazy how far your collection has come.

 

THANKS! If they'd just legalize marijuana, I think it'd actually come long even faster. :wishluck:

Live in California :whistle:

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This week I finally picked up a nice copy of FF #2 and finished my FF run. I now own the entire run in 8.0 or better with the exception of my #1 being CGC 7.0 and my #3 being a restored 9.4. I'll keep upgrading, but I'm planning to mostly hold off on that until I pick up a nice Amazing Fantasy 15. Since I won't be buying many FFs until I get the AF15, I also went ahead and did what I'd been avoiding for years--I posted my FF run into the CGC Registry, there's a link to it in my sig line. I'll put scans up at some point as well, although if you're good at reverse-engineering scan addresses from book pictures I post they've been available for public viewing on the web for most of the last decade.

 

Glad to finally have the #2 out of the way! I'd been stymied in getting it for the last three years. :pullhair:

 

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ff, do you have a link to your Registry books? I cannot locate them and would love the view the set.

 

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This week I finally picked up a nice copy of FF #2 and finished my FF run. I now own the entire run in 8.0 or better with the exception of my #1 being CGC 7.0 and my #3 being a restored 9.4. I'll keep upgrading, but I'm planning to mostly hold off on that until I pick up a nice Amazing Fantasy 15. Since I won't be buying many FFs until I get the AF15, I also went ahead and did what I'd been avoiding for years--I posted my FF run into the CGC Registry, there's a link to it in my sig line. I'll put scans up at some point as well, although if you're good at reverse-engineering scan addresses from book pictures I post they've been available for public viewing on the web for most of the last decade.

 

Glad to finally have the #2 out of the way! I'd been stymied in getting it for the last three years. :pullhair:

 

ff2.jpg

 

CONGRATS ff!! :applause: Very jealous... :frustrated:

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This week I finally picked up a nice copy of FF #2 and finished my FF run. I now own the entire run in 8.0 or better with the exception of my #1 being CGC 7.0 and my #3 being a restored 9.4. I'll keep upgrading, but I'm planning to mostly hold off on that until I pick up a nice Amazing Fantasy 15. Since I won't be buying many FFs until I get the AF15, I also went ahead and did what I'd been avoiding for years--I posted my FF run into the CGC Registry, there's a link to it in my sig line. I'll put scans up at some point as well, although if you're good at reverse-engineering scan addresses from book pictures I post they've been available for public viewing on the web for most of the last decade.

 

Glad to finally have the #2 out of the way! I'd been stymied in getting it for the last three years. :pullhair:

 

ff2.jpg

 

CONGRATS ff!! :applause: Very jealous... :frustrated:

 

Me too. Very pretty book! Congrats. (thumbs u

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My two latest pickups...the 31 from my buddy kevinm...and the 37 from the CC auction... :headbang:

 

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Now need just 3 books to complete my FF 20-55 run in 9.0+... :wishluck:

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