Looks like a well loved copy to me! I like the other one posted too. As far as this club goes, it might not be the most popular, but it was the first of the great Marvel Age!
As far as this club goes, it might not be the most popular, but it was the first of the great Marvel Age!
I'll always consider it the hands-down most significant comic of the Silver Age. One of the top ten from any era, as far as historical impact. FF1 will be the last key I part with, if I ever sell. My current plan is to die while still owning a full Kirby run.
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Can I join? Or perhaps with this copy, am I entitled to only a provisional membership?
It was FF that got me started collecting back in 1974, so I'll always have a soft spot for this one.
This book comes with a fun story. I lucked into it.
It was about 1990 or '91. I sold comics at cons regularly, and the Keaton/Nicholson had turned all things Bat into solid gold. I met somebody who had a collection to sell, and went to his house to look at what he had. It was about 5 banana boxes of unsorted SA and BA books. Most of it was second- and third-tier stuff. As I recall, there were no keys but there were a number of Joker appearances (which were a big deal at the time) and there were a bunch of Bats and 'Tecs from 1961-1964.
After some discussion, we came up with an agreeable price and I drove home with the collection. At home I began the task of removing the books from the banana boxes and sorting them. There were a handful of coverless books at the bottom of a box. They had pretty much been used to line the bottom of the box, so I hadn't even looked at what it was before buying the collection. And lo and behold... there it was. The book I had always wanted, but was to cheap (and poor) to actually buy. It's been in my collection ever since.
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