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Fantastic Four Collecting Thread!
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It's not very often that I manage to fill a hole in my Silver Age Fantastic Four run (because I'm such a cheapskate). A respectable copy of #28 for a reasonable price! The scan looks worse than the book in hand -- it's really hard on the soiled white background.

 

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Just six more books in the 20s and upgrading a coverless 36 for a solid run from #15 to #131!

 

Jack

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It's not very often that I manage to fill a hole in my Silver Age Fantastic Four run (because I'm such a cheapskate)....

 

Two more FF scans.

 

This one's for nostalgia. It's great to get a more presentable (about fine) copy of Fantastic Four Annual 4 to upgrade the newsstand copy from my youth. This was one of my absolute favorites! I loved the way Kirby, Sinnott and the uncredited colorist (M Severin? S Brodsky?) managed to made the new and old Human Torches so distinct. And the melodramatic Quasimodo ending to the Torch story! And the Hulk-Thing battle reprint that I had never read! Nirvana summer reading for a 13-year-old geek.

 

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And what's this thing? 1974-75 Topps-Marvel Comc Book Heroes checklist card with a FF 100 cover. Wha? Anyone looking for these? There are duplicates of the upper and lower left cards.

 

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Not Silver Age, but on the subject of Fantastic Four Annuals, I was happy to win 14 of them from #12 to 27, including 4 that I didn't already have, for a penny. Good ol' ebay!

 

Jack

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It's not very often that I manage to fill a hole in my Silver Age Fantastic Four run (because I'm such a cheapskate). A respectable copy of #28 for a reasonable price! The scan looks worse than the book in hand -- it's really hard on the soiled white background.

 

ff28x.jpg

 

Just six more books in the 20s and upgrading a coverless 36 for a solid run from #15 to #131!

 

Jack

 

Very nice Jack, great issue. Which ones do you still need?

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It's not very often that I manage to fill a hole in my Silver Age Fantastic Four run (because I'm such a cheapskate). A respectable copy of #28 for a reasonable price! The scan looks worse than the book in hand -- it's really hard on the soiled white background.

 

ff28x.jpg

 

Just six more books in the 20s and upgrading a coverless 36 for a solid run from #15 to #131!

 

Jack

 

Very nice Jack, great issue. Which ones do you still need?

 

Thanks!

 

1-14 (I'll be satisfied with reprints on those, barring miracles or very good luck), 21-23, 25, 26, 29, (36 have coverless), 131, 166, 169 and then a bunch of quarter-box issues from 265 up.

FF from about #30s to 80s were my favorite comics back in the day.

 

Jack

 

 

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It's not very often that I manage to fill a hole in my Silver Age Fantastic Four run (because I'm such a cheapskate). A respectable copy of #28 for a reasonable price! The scan looks worse than the book in hand -- it's really hard on the soiled white background.

 

ff28x.jpg

 

Just six more books in the 20s and upgrading a coverless 36 for a solid run from #15 to #131!

 

Jack

 

Very nice Jack, great issue. Which ones do you still need?

 

Thanks!

 

1-14 (I'll be satisfied with reprints on those, barring miracles or very good luck), 21-23, 25, 26, 29, (36 have coverless), 131, 166, 169 and then a bunch of quarter-box issues from 265 up.

FF from about #30s to 80s were my favorite comics back in the day.

 

Jack

 

 

Some of those issues are pretty cheap in low grade, even the earlier issues. Keep at it and I bet you complete it some day soon. I gotta agree, I loved the early FFs, especially 39,40,44,45,46,48,49,50,52,55,56,57,58 ...ah hell they were geniuses at Marvel.

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Very nice Jack, great issue. Which ones do you still need?

 

Thanks!

 

1-14 (I'll be satisfied with reprints on those, barring miracles or very good luck), 21-23, 25, 26, 29, (36 have coverless), 131, 166, 169 and then a bunch of quarter-box issues from 265 up.

FF from about #30s to 80s were my favorite comics back in the day.

 

Jack

 

 

Some of those issues are pretty cheap in low grade, even the earlier issues. Keep at it and I bet you complete it some day soon. I gotta agree, I loved the early FFs, especially 39,40,44,45,46,48,49,50,52,55,56,57,58 ...ah hell they were geniuses at Marvel.

 

I'm definitely a "cheap in low grade" and "keep at it" collector. The most I've paid for ANY FF is $35 for #20, which I really wanted for the Molecule Man appearance. That's over double the price of the next most expensive issue, #31! (Fortunately I bought the tough issues for 12¢, probably from Rose's or Karnik's Variety Store -- very possibly the 12¢ came from turning in 6 returnable pop bottles!

 

Several issues in the teens are real beaters, bought from a VCC seller on this very forum. I wouldn't be surprised to complete the set from #11 up, but doubt that I'll ever find 1-10 at prices that I'm willing to pay. Reprints will be OK for those.

 

Jack

 

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Just reading them is the point. You have good taste.

 

:blush: Gawrsh!

 

I almost agree. If just reading them is completely the point, then I could probably pick up Essential Fantastic Four 1-5 for under $25 and be done. If there weren't something special about an original copy, we wouldn't all be posting on this forum.

 

Jack

 

 

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In an unrelated vein, this message board has inspired me. I have sent my Fantastic Four #92 in to CGC to be graded. It's about as nice as I have and I'm realistically hoping for a 9.0. We'll see...

 

I know you were all dying to find out...

 

It just came back a 9.2! :banana:

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Thanks to jimjum... :headbang:

my now earliest FF in 9.0 as well as my first Sid's Luncheonette OO copy! :cloud9:

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BEAUTY!! Gotta love those Sid's copies. I hope to get my hands on one one day!

Congrats on the quest!!

 

Oh yeah...and the OO is none other than Harry Banks (BurntBoy)! I will post tomorrow or later tonite the history behind the collection (it's on the back of Harry's Certificate of Authenticity/Provenance...pretty eff-in COOL! :headbang:

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