COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Fantastic Four 2
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Pedigree:
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White Mountain
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Certification #:
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1024024006
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
One of the gems of our collection, this White Mountain (see discussion below) beauty is one of the three highest graded in the census and introduces the Skrulls from outer space who appear in the Captain Marvel and Spider-Man Far from Home movies. The Skrulls are shape-shifters who possess alien technology to perpetrate their misdeeds. Their plan is to conquer the Earth. Fearing that the Fantastic Four will stand in their way, they send four agents who disguise themselves as the FF and perpetrate misdeeds to ruin the FF’s reputation. Eventually, our heroes turn the tables and Mr. Fantastic hypnotizes the Skrulls into believing they are cows.
A little history on this one, this book was part of the Doug Schmell Collection and was sold in the Heritage auction in July 2012 for $49,293.75. However, somebody later bought the book on December 26, 2012 from that owner thru Heritage for $90,000. I am not sure if it was highest graded at the time, but I was lucky enough to pick it up for less than half the amount of the December 2012 sale in a 2014 ComicLink auction.
The White Mountain Collection came to prominence in the early '90s when a large portion of them sold through the first Sotheby's comic book auctions in 1991 and 1992, although the original owner had been selling books from it as early as 1984. Known for their whiteness and freshness, the collection covered much of the '50s and '60s, particularly horror and science fiction, and contained full runs of early Silver Age titles. It was one of the first major pedigrees to represent the Silver Age, laying the foundation for other prominent Silver Age pedigrees such as Pacific Coast, Curator, Western Penn, Northford and Mohawk Valley. Copies from the '50s contain a date stamp on the first page, while later issues exhibit a small two-digit year penned on the front cover. In this case, the 62 is penned in the middle of the front cover right next to the issue number “2”.
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