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Tuesday, 7 November 2006

It Shook the eBay World

Two weeks ago, there was hoo-haa on eBay. And naturally too. An auction for an old copy of "FANTASTIC FOUR 1 ... VF/NM 9.0 ... UNRESTORED" closed at US $16,303.00.

Who could ever dream that an old issue of Fantastic Four would fetch that price? It's astounding.

A glossy, off-white paged, Guaranteed Unrestored #1 with brilliant, deep colors, bright cover whites and no cover transparency or ink transference, without any right edge chipping or pre-chipping! Just a tiny chip at the tip of the top spine corner keeps this extremely desirable example from grading NM-! A monster example that will be the cornerstone of anyone's FF or #1 collection.

Not long after that, I received a message from a fellow member of our recycle group (also a fellow eBay member) that he is looking for old Beano and Dandy comics. This person is an elderly Caucasian man residing in Singapore. He thinks he can come to our Malaysian recycle group to trick people into parting with the valuable comics and then sell them off eBay himself? BAH!

The first issue of Fantastic Four was released in 1961, so you can imagine the value of Beano (1st issue in 1938) based on the price fetched by Fantastic Four #1.

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