Fantastic Four Collecting Thread!

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thanks, boardie.

White cover, and it looks wonderful!

thanks, boardie.

 

Nice!!! Where's the 18?

Don’t know about Billy but I am missing it…

y'all must have sig lines on ignore. need: 5, 6, 8, 10, 13 and 18. that'll do 1-55! i also am going to get annual 7, just to have all the s.a. ones.

Yes I have…

I didn't read the fine print.

Here is my 18. Deslabbed 6.5

First Super Skrull! One of my favorite early FF's!

Nice books, all.

I haven't been sharing my FF collection, but someday I will. Maybe when I get a scanner...

Please do, as we would love to see them!

Dan

thanks, boardie.

 

Wow, that is a stunning copy. So white and news stand fresh looking. I wonder what the flaw is holding it down to a 7.0 ? If you ever upgrade, I'm interested. Wow.

Yes, the white of the cover paper is one of the things I value most.

Downgrading in such cases (when the books appears great looking) is most likely due to a very minor defect they tend to hammer: in the case of my #36 it’s a dust shadow on the back cover, it might be a partially detached centerfold or some other (to me ininfluential) minor defect.

Nicely preserved cover paper and inks is something I've looked for as well.

Here are some pedigree copies of FF issues with really nice paper and bright inks:

Love the later SA Kirby covers almost as much as the early ones, especially without word balloons.

The Curator run of FFs has the whitest cover stock I've seen.

Whiteness…

I have some VERY whites in the higher numbers as well… I think that at some point they changed the cover paper stock, as otherwise it’s not explainable.

I have had a dozen (so to speak) of #67, but no one is white as issues in the #70s or #80s.

Whiteness…

 

I have some VERY whites in the higher numbers as well… I think that at some point they changed the cover paper stock, as otherwise it’s not explainable.

I have had a dozen (so to speak) of #67, but no one is white as issues in the #70s or #80s.

It's funny but I've had nice white midgrade copies of 67 both cover and inside stock (I now have a 9.2). I have yet to run into a nice white 73, they always show tanning,even if only slightly. Anyone?

Beautiful books Bob! Aren't the 'curators' the stuff of legend concerning whiteness?

beautiful raw squarebound grabbed from bunky. thanks, buddy!

Brilliant copy!

Envious!

yay!