Strange Tales 89 Club - Fin Fang Foom! Finally! ;) 3 3

[mysterio]

Here is my raw copy:

 

 

[KirbyJack]

Another stunner!

[Bronty]

 

P.S. Bronty, I still have to honor that half-promise about writing on italian comics' history, but hopefully will do…

 

I will look forward to it!

[scooter99]

Here is my raw copy:

 

 

That is a sweet copy!

[roulette44]

This book in my desired grade range has elluded me for years....

 

but I do have a copy

 

[Sqeggs]

Here's a few pics of my copy. I remember mowing lawns and babysitting all summer to earn money to buy the fancy new Atari 2600 with 2 joysticks and 2 paddle controllers, with wood panel siding and all the works. Then I saw this book for the very first time. I had just enough money to buy this and still have some spending money for the last 2 weeks of summer or keep working to save up for the Atari 2600. I thought one of my friends would end up getting the Atari 2600 so I chose the Strange Tales #89. I remember the store owner of the used book shop had a Fantastic Four #1 in about the same condition but was asking 4 times the amount of the price of the Strange Tales #89, plus as a young boy I thought the cover was cooler and knowing it came out about a month before Fantastic Four #1 made me think I was getting something super old. I wonder where that Atari 2600 would be now?

 

 

 

Really nice. (thumbs u

[Sqeggs]

Here is my raw copy:

 

 

That is a sweet copy!

 

+1

[*Bronze age fan*]

Here's a few pics of my copy. I remember mowing lawns and babysitting all summer to earn money to buy the fancy new Atari 2600 with 2 joysticks and 2 paddle controllers, with wood panel siding and all the works. Then I saw this book for the very first time. I had just enough money to buy this and still have some spending money for the last 2 weeks of summer or keep working to save up for the Atari 2600. I thought one of my friends would end up getting the Atari 2600 so I chose the Strange Tales #89. I remember the store owner of the used book shop had a Fantastic Four #1 in about the same condition but was asking 4 times the amount of the price of the Strange Tales #89, plus as a young boy I thought the cover was cooler and knowing it came out about a month before Fantastic Four #1 made me think I was getting something super old. I wonder where that Atari 2600 would be now?

 

 

 

 

Nice! Real cool story! What was the price? And do you kick yourself for not also buying the FF 1???

[Bronty]

Ehhhh its the book be could afford and both of the two books are awesome. Cant lose picking between those two! Great story for sure

[Red_Hood]

Thanks, my copy was about $250 and I was in awe to see a comic for $1,000. That being the Fantastic Four #1. I was 13, turning 14 at the end of summer, so I never regretted not buying the Fantastic Four #1 as I couldn't afford it. I remember thinking back then that it was cool just owning a 10 cent comic. You didn't seem them around too often, even 12 cent comics for that matter. The only time I saw old comics were the pictures in the Overstreet Price Guide each year that it came out. I think the Atari 2600 was around $400 at the time so I was about $100 shy of my goal and I'm happy I was short of that goal.

Edited June 9, 2013 by Red_Hood

[Red_Hood]

Here is my raw copy:

 

 

I can't get enough of seeing this book. The colors are so striking on almost any copy.

[*Bronze age fan*]

Thanks, my copy was about $250 and I was in awe to see a comic for $1,000. That being the Fantastic Four #1. I was 13, turning 14 at the end of summer, so I never regretted not buying the Fantastic Four #1 as I couldn't afford it. I remember thinking back then that it was cool just owning a 10 cent comic. You didn't seem them around too often, even 12 cent comics for that matter. The only time I saw old comics were the pictures in the Overstreet Price Guide each year that it came out. I think the Atari 2600 was around $400 at the time so I was about $100 shy of my goal and I'm happy I was short of that goal.

 

Nice! I saw so many comics when I was younger that I wish I would have bought. But I have the same story. I could not afford them at the time so I could just stare at them in the overstreet and think I would never own a copy.

[ChicksCosmiComics]

Here's a few pics of my copy. I remember mowing lawns and babysitting all summer to earn money to buy the fancy new Atari 2600 with 2 joysticks and 2 paddle controllers, with wood panel siding and all the works. Then I saw this book for the very first time. I had just enough money to buy this and still have some spending money for the last 2 weeks of summer or keep working to save up for the Atari 2600. I thought one of my friends would end up getting the Atari 2600 so I chose the Strange Tales #89. I remember the store owner of the used book shop had a Fantastic Four #1 in about the same condition but was asking 4 times the amount of the price of the Strange Tales #89, plus as a young boy I thought the cover was cooler and knowing it came out about a month before Fantastic Four #1 made me think I was getting something super old. I wonder where that Atari 2600 would be now?

 

 

 

 

Nice! Real cool story! What was the price? And do you kick yourself for not also buying the FF 1???

 

WOW that looks like a HG copy slab it it might be top graded copy nice ROI on $250 buck investment. I'd love to find a nice copy. Funny thing about Pre Hero's is this monster appeared about 5 different times under different aliases. Until they came up with a kick azz name (thumbs u

[JollyComics]

Pardon my curiosity, what is so important about this issue?

[Bronty]

Fff has been part of the iron man continuity for decades. Add to that the killer kirby cover and art, classic story and rarity above fine condition and you've got one heck of a funnybook (thumbs u

[Rosland]

Wow! That's one sweet FFF!

[BarryAllen]

Triple F finally getting the respect it deserves!

 

[scooter99]

Here's a few pics of my copy. I remember mowing lawns and babysitting all summer to earn money to buy the fancy new Atari 2600 with 2 joysticks and 2 paddle controllers, with wood panel siding and all the works. Then I saw this book for the very first time. I had just enough money to buy this and still have some spending money for the last 2 weeks of summer or keep working to save up for the Atari 2600. I thought one of my friends would end up getting the Atari 2600 so I chose the Strange Tales #89. I remember the store owner of the used book shop had a Fantastic Four #1 in about the same condition but was asking 4 times the amount of the price of the Strange Tales #89, plus as a young boy I thought the cover was cooler and knowing it came out about a month before Fantastic Four #1 made me think I was getting something super old. I wonder where that Atari 2600 would be now?

 

 

 

 

Nice! Real cool story! What was the price? And do you kick yourself for not also buying the FF 1???

 

WOW that looks like a HG copy slab it it might be top graded copy nice ROI on $250 buck investment. I'd love to find a nice copy. Funny thing about Pre Hero's is this monster appeared about 5 different times under different aliases. Until they came up with a kick azz name (thumbs u

 

That is a great story and copy, Red!

[vaillant]

Thanks, my copy was about $250 and I was in awe to see a comic for $1,000. That being the Fantastic Four #1. I was 13, turning 14 at the end of summer, so I never regretted not buying the Fantastic Four #1 as I couldn't afford it. I remember thinking back then that it was cool just owning a 10 cent comic. You didn't seem them around too often, even 12 cent comics for that matter. The only time I saw old comics were the pictures in the Overstreet Price Guide each year that it came out. I think the Atari 2600 was around $400 at the time so I was about $100 shy of my goal and I'm happy I was short of that goal.

 

That is a great story because I’d have loved an Atari 2600 at the time, but all those videogame consoles were too much expensive for my father…

 

I wasn’t in the frame of mind of working during summer to save for something special, so I put all my savings, little by little, in starting to collect 1960s, and then 1930s and 1940s italian Disney comics. Which in the same fashion were things which as a 13-16 years old boy you were not prone to see much around, anywere.

 

Who would have guessed that I’d have finally came to collect some US comic book golden age goodness almost 30 years later?

[KirbyJack]

Pardon my curiosity, what is so important about this issue?

 

Yeah, Ol' F3 has appeared occasionally , but so have some of the other Pre-Hero monsters. What really separates this book from the pack is that name. Fin Fang Foom is the ultimate example of the fun Stan had naming the endless parade of wannabe world beaters.

That sense of fun is one of the biggest reasons I'm a pre-hero Marvel collector. Stan really let loose, particularly in the early days, before the monster formula wore thin. Add to that amazing, epic stories from Steve Ditko and especially Jack Kirby, the real Master of the genre.

Strange Tales #89 is arguably the single most popular Pre-Hero Marvel, and Fin Fang Foom is certainly the most popular monster.