FANTASTIC FOUR 25 VF "GREEN RIVER"

[Aces]

Somebody around these parts might be interested in this!

 

He has others listed too.

[the blob]

and how is any of his verifiable?

[Aces]

and how is any of his verifiable?

 

That's Red's job.

 

There are tell-tale date stamps on the GRs right?

[KingOfRulers]

. To buy one FF #25, or a TOS #39 CGC 4.0 and many early X-men to fill my run? Just saying....a bit pricey dontcha think...

[Red Hook]

The seller is Jim Haack, one of the original purchasers of the collection. These books are among those in the collection that exhibit the impact dents (and minor cover tearing) of bb gun pellets. They've been listed there for a while, and are about 3x what I would personally pay for them. I bought his Tales to Astonish 60 a while back, and Nikos almost bought an early ASM from him before realizing that it indeed had a minor tear in the cover. Read the descriptions.

 

Here's the book I purchased from him. You can see the tearing on the Hulk's chest.

 

 

 

[Aman619]

always nice to have the expert around for help! Even CBM never had such instant expertise available!

[ashrael]

This is one of about 10 comics that came with the green river collection when we bought it, that had bullet holes thru the front covers.

 

Am I reading that correctly? Bullet holes? And VF?

[Red Hook]

always nice to have the expert around for help! Even CBM never had such instant expertise available!

 

...or guys with so much spare time on their hands.

[Red Hook]

This is one of about 10 comics that came with the green river collection when we bought it, that had bullet holes thru the front covers.

 

Am I reading that correctly? Bullet holes? And VF?

 

Yep. My theory is that the brothers who collected the books were messing around with a bb gun and hit a few books by mistake. Or it could have happened at a later date. At this point, the facts are unclear. But they are more like bb gun pellets, not real bullets, and they made more of an impact on the covers and did not go through any books, or deep into the books as far as I know.

 

Red

[Red Hook]

As for the grading....... Ze-man had an otherwise 9.0 and up copy of ASM 57 that had one of these impact dents, and it received a 7.5 from CGC.

 

Red

[RDK]

Would bullet holes rate a "Qualified" grade?

[Red Hook]

Well, hard to claim what they are from CGC's standpoint. I don't think they do ballistics tests at this point, but you never know. Maybe PCS does.

 

So, I think they would be considered simple tears, or "rough areas" on the cover and graded accordingly.

 

 

Red

[deathlok]

He had 5 Green River books in his Ebay store for awhile, but I guess 2 people paid through the nose for two of them. He has three left now, which as Red said are priced very high.

[DKB]

Of the 5, I think Red got one, the TTA, and Nikos got the other which -- and I'm not positive -- he eventually didn't get, but it wasn't relisted. Or something like that.

 

I believe the seller is very very flexible and isn't opposed to what some would consider lowball offers.

 

There was a bullet hole Spidey....13?...on eBay awhile back with a $175ish BIN on it that someone pounced on pretty quick. Board member I think. A few other memebers then lamented not noticing it first.

 

Considering the provenance, having bullet marked books is kinda neat. =)

[Aces]

. To buy one FF #25, or a TOS #39 CGC 4.0 and many early X-men to fill my run? Just saying....a bit pricey dontcha think...

 

Way overpriced.

I posted due to it being a key, not a great bagin.

 

edit:

Sorry.

Misread that and thought you were looking for a TTA 39.

[jbud73]

Even though I like Peds, I mean c'mon get some decent scans up there please.

[Red Hook]

I totally agree. But he's Old Skool.

[deathlok]

[Artboy99]

I am very torn on whether I want to own a book once owned by a serial killer.

 

Artboy99

[DKB]

I am very torn on whether I want to own a book once owned by a serial killer.

 

Artboy99

 

 

He didn't do it.