Fantastic Four, Vol. 1 #52 (1966) - Very Good / Fine - 1st Black Panther

	£		200
	$		338

A ... copy of Fantastic Four #52 from 1966 featuring the 1st appearance of the Black Panther

The front and back covers are showing signs of wear with creases and fine cracks along the spine with some slight pulling of the cover around the upper staple and rounding of the corners – see scans for details.

The front cover is flat, clean, not faded and mostly blemish free. The rear cover is blemish free and white

Inside, the comic itself is complete and all intact with pages in off-white / slightly tanned condition.

The Comic is bagged & boarded in a Mylite Archival Bag and PH-neutral backing board.

Photographs & scans are the actual comics and happy to add more on request up to a maximum of 12 photos.

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I use the old fashioned Letter Grading Scale (what Overstreet now calls the Basic Grading Scale) where a grade is defined as "somewhere around this condition" and based on "an accumulation of faults".

Consequently any grades and notes about the condition of the comic are for guidance only and based on my intereptation of what I see from a quick examination of the comic.

I'm not going to claim to be stricter than anyone else nor is the grade the result of a detailed analysis that I've spent hours preparing for each individual comic.

Hopefully the photograps and high-resolution scans (where I've used them) will show any major faults and be sufficient to see that it is "somewhere around this condition".

However, if you have a specific question about the condition or description then please ask and I'll post an answer.

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