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Fantastic Four Collecting Thread!
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Please note also the perfect centering on these! :D

 

Now I just have to decide between these two… :ohnoez:

 

I know the second copy is a lot better, and super-white cover, but the first one has better color, more gloss, and better printed interiors (good coverage of the Black ink plate). #65 is driving me mad as at the current prices I surely can’t afford another nice copy.

The second one is a deslabbed CGC 9.0.

 

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Very Nice Copies of FF # 65 and 67 especially. Here is my # 67 purchased from Best International Comics in New Hyde Park, NY. It was part of an original owner collection from an area of Long Island, NY called Manetto Hill. I was told that the owner (a 67 year old man) came into Best Comics with several suit cases full of Marvel Silver Age comics. He was on the fence about selling on Ebay or to the owner of Best Comics. He decided to sell to Best Comics. Most of his books are in the 7.0 to 9.0 range. I purchased a few FF's and Avengers.

 

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Well, that looks pretty gorgeous, and great price (probably he factored in the color touch?).

 

I don’t have mine at hand, but here’s a spare copy I have with a Joe Sinnott signature on the cover, right below the Surfer (thanks to Dr. Balls):

 

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My #13, just scanned – in about GD+ but I quite love it… :whee:

 

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"Enough fantasy and super-characters to fill 3 magazines!" Boy, they wuzn't kiddin'! The Watcher, a character whose race had a long and significant history in the Marvel Universe, ages before the FF first set foot on the moon... the mysterious "Blue Area" of the moon, ruins of an ancient city that tied into the Kree and the Skrulls, both races that also had long histories in the Marvel Mythos... As fantastic as Fantastic Four #13 was, it only represented the tip of the historical iceberg. So much of what was yet to come ties back to this classic issue.

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My #13, just scanned – in about GD+ but I quite love it… :whee:

 

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Nice Vaillant!

 

FF 13 is at the top of my upgrade list.

There's a nice copy on Ebay now for less than 300, but it has marvel chipping :(

 

(thumbs u Vaillant, Nice pick up in any grade. And 20 yrs ago would have been appreciated by even more folks (pre internet era).

 

If was going to horde, this would be one issue I would go after. Not only is the cover great, but the story art is outstanding. Classic Kirby depicting outer-space elements.

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My #13, just scanned – in about GD+ but I quite love it… :whee:

 

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"Enough fantasy and super-characters to fill 3 magazines!" Boy, they wuzn't kiddin'! The Watcher, a character whose race had a long and significant history in the Marvel Universe, ages before the FF first set foot on the moon... the mysterious "Blue Area" of the moon, ruins of an ancient city that tied into the Kree and the Skrulls, both races that also had long histories in the Marvel Mythos... As fantastic as Fantastic Four #13 was, it only represented the tip of the historical iceberg. So much of what was yet to come ties back to this classic issue.

 

...... yup. This is the issue where the FF truly began to wax cosmic..... Mythos is such a good word. That first image of the ancient city is :cloud9: GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

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Thanks everyone – I’d love to updgrade this myself as well, but for now I’m more than happy with this copy, it has even nice PQ, OW but of the better kind. :)

 

I’ve seen the copy on eBay, remarkably nice if not for the chipping…

 

Foxtrot, why do you say that twenty years ago it would have been appreciated by even more people? Because people were more conscious of what Marvel represented, or just because now they are all so easy to obtain that people lose focus in their collecting, or some other reason?

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I would guess that people back in 1963 were generally easier to amaze... that their sense of wonder had not yet been dulled by the kind of high tech cinematic wizardry that we take for granted today. Just my own opinion.

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Thanks everyone – I’d love to updgrade this myself as well, but for now I’m more than happy with this copy, it has even nice PQ, OW but of the better kind. :)

 

I’ve seen the copy on eBay, remarkably nice if not for the chipping…

 

Foxtrot, why do you say that twenty years ago it would have been appreciated by even more people? Because people were more conscious of what Marvel represented, or just because now they are all so easy to obtain that people lose focus in their collecting, or some other reason?

 

 

The later of your statements. They are easier to obtain, so people lose focus and take them for granted. The old FF issues were very difficult to find before the internet, so grade was less important as well as being a non-key oriented. Back in the days finding any copy of an early FF would be a thrill. I remember buying a beater copy of FF #11 and it was the envy of my circle of friends. It is nice to have so many boardies still be able to share the joy of these classics for what they are.

 

 

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The later of your statements. They are easier to obtain, so people lose focus and take them for granted. The old FF issues were very difficult to find before the internet, so grade was less important as well as being a non-key oriented. Back in the days finding any copy of an early FF would be a thrill. I remember buying a beater copy of FF #11 and it was the envy of my circle of friends. It is nice to have so many boardies still be able to share the joy of these classics for what they are.

 

Then I guessed right: I can entirely understand, especially being in Italy, when I got my first Overstreets in the late 1980s most of these (not to mention the Golden Age!) seemed a distant dream impossible to own. Prices were already high, exchange rate was prohibitive, so I think when I got my very first early Marvel SA I was totally in awe. One was a Tales to Astonish, the other one a FF #22 I think.

 

Also, you never knew what you will get: although dealers like Gary Dolgoff or Joseph Koch were very strict with grading, it was a true surprise to buy before seeing the actual book.

This one (already shown), for example, is still a Gary Dolgoff book, with his amazing "FVF" grade which included everything between a FVF and a VF+… :cloud9:

 

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I remember being in awe of "12 centers", when they were just 4 years old!

I think I must have had convulsions upon seeing my first "Circle 12".

 

I still get jazzed up when I see 'em. :ohnoez:

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