Fantastic Four #1 (Marvel, 1961) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages....

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Fantastic Four #1 (Marvel, 1961) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. If you called this the most desirable Silver Age comic ever to be auctioned, you would get no argument from us. A scintillating copy of the comic book that launched the Marvel Age! We can't imagine a nicer copy, and CGC hasn't certified one yet! The colors, the white background of the cover, the corners, the spine, the white pages - all mark this as a near perfect copy. In our history, we've never sold a higher-graded copy than a 9.2 - most recently in 2022, and that book fetched a tidy $1,500,000! This 9.6 gem is being offered for the very first time!
From a rarity factor, CGC has certified a mere eight copies higher than VF/NM 9.0 - and only two as high as NM+ 9.6, with none higher - which makes this issue much rarer than Amazing Fantasy #15, of which CGC has certified 15 copies nicer than 9.0.
Of course, the importance of this issue simply cannot be overstated. After lagging behind DC in popularity and sales in the 1940s, and being dominated by its rival throughout the 1950s, the worm started to turn for Timely / Atlas / Marvel with this brilliant creation from the formidable minds of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Essentially, all things Marvel yet to come started right here. More and more collectors are giving this book its due, as evidenced by its value jump in the latest edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, an impressive 17% over the previous year, by far the largest jump of any of the top-rated books on Overstreet's Top 50 Silver Age Comics list.
In this issue is the origin and first appearance of the Fantastic Four, Marvel's first superhero team, as well as the first appearance of their lifelong foe, Mole Man. And while Jack Kirby was already a revered name in comics, and Stan Lee had been contributing scripts for nearly 20 years, this is the issue where the legend of Stan Lee sprouted wings. Together the duo of Lee and Kirby blazed a trail of excellence in storytelling in large part due to their 101-issue association with the Fantastic Four title. Overstreet 2024 NM- 9.2 value = $350,000. CGC census 9/24: 2 in 9.6, none higher.

View the certification for CGC Certification ID 1057670001, including grader's notes if available and a link to the latest full census report for the issue.*

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