Fantastic Four Collecting Thread! 33 33

[HighVoltage]

On 8/13/2021 at 8:57 AM, KirbyJack said:

One of the Greats.

Loving the colors on this one. Very nice!

Edit: Also like the grease pencil date! This was a sweet Christmas present for comic fans!

Edited August 13, 2021 by HighVoltage

[Mucheee1]

[Karl Liebl]

On 8/13/2021 at 7:57 AM, KirbyJack said:

One of the Greats.

I just sent 4 more ff that I bought at eBay. High dollar books. Time to get grades. No writing or stamps. My pet peeve.   I only need 18 more. Be well

[Frisco Larson]

A great book end set! Someday I should buy high grade certified copies. 

[KirbyJack]

Those look like they'd certify pretty well!

[Frisco Larson]

On 8/14/2021 at 4:57 PM, KirbyJack said:

Those look like they'd certify pretty well!

Thanks pal, but they're right in that middle zone where they won't grade high enough to be even semi uncommon and they're just right to be able to handle a pretty raw copy. 

[Frisco Larson]

I DID have this copy certified as I thought the first Ant-Man crossover and awesome Dr. Doom cover warranted encapsulation. I DO have a raw copy to thumb up, which made that decision MUCH easier to make!  Raw copy below. 

Edited August 15, 2021 by Frisco Larson

[Karl Liebl]

I read an article that said there are only 50 thousand comic book collectors left in the USA. I think that does not explain the movie hysteria. How long can this 60 year old ink go on?

[MattTheDuck]

That number seems way too high, but I'm not sure what the number of collectors has to do with how long the ink lasts.

[Karl Liebl]

On 8/15/2021 at 9:10 AM, MattTheDuck said:

That number seems way too high, but I'm not sure what the number of collectors has to do with how long the ink lasts.

Your answer depresses me further. Deeper and deeper. All the way down. 

[KirbyJack]

For fun, I like to imagine how it would be if there were 10 million people interested in collecting bronze and older comic books.

I also entertain a scenario where comics are so popular that they get 3 minutes of the news every night. We’d all be half assed celebrities!

[PJB Comics]

Hi, this is my first post on the forum. My dad grew up collecting comics in NYC in the 70s ... I'm inventorying his collection and figuring out what to do with it (we share this account). He owns a LOT of Silver Age Marvel comics, and his favorites were FFs. I'm not sure about etiquette on the boards so I will just post a couple pics for now. Enjoy!

 

[MattTheDuck]

No reason to be so focused on what other people do or think.  If it weren't for people who had great comics but didn't care about them, being a committed collector would be hard.

[MGsimba77]

How is the number of comic collectors in the country even quantifiable? Comics and sports cards are the two hobbies that will never suffer from lack of popularity. 

[Morganmi]

On the lighter side of things. Nothing more cool to me than finding a beauty of a book in someones small original owner collection this late in the game.

[Frisco Larson]

Doom covers rock!!!  

[HighVoltage]

Do we need to have a 'DoooooooomsDay?'
Where we just post all of our Doom covers?!

[KirbyJack]

On 8/16/2021 at 9:37 AM, HighVoltage said:

Do we need to have a 'DoooooooomsDay?'
Where we just post all of our Doom covers?!

If you look into a mirror and say @Straw-Manthree times, Doom covers will appear.

[Straw-Man]

like he didn't already know that!

[HighVoltage]

On 8/16/2021 at 8:53 AM, KirbyJack said:

If you look into a mirror and say @Straw-Manthree times, Doom covers will appear.