100 Hot Comics #50:
Fantastic Four 5, 1st Doctor Doom

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Why Fantastic Four 5 is a Hot Comic

2024 MARKET UPDATE: BAFFLING SELL-OFF WITH THE MOVIE COMING

To be crystal clear about this year's report, most updates will be negative. This is one of them.

The money is being moved out of FF#5, rapidly.

This should be a speculator must-buy at the current prices.

2023 MARKET UPDATE: TWO YEARS TO THE HOMECOMING, AND GOING BACK IN TIME

You can buy this book for 2021 prices KNOWING there is a movie in 2025.

That has never happened before.

This, and Fantastic Four #1, are my two must-own books this year. Period.

2022 MARKET UPDATE: TWO GRADES BREAK THE $100K BARRIER!

Big sales are seemingly routine in the past twelve months. The argument could be made that FF #5 has been under-valued for a really long time.

It's one of the toughest of the second-string keys, especially in grades above VG. The movie action that's long been promised is still promised -- the so-called FF Homecoming to Marvel Studios.

Firmly entrenched in the top 20 of the 100 Hot Comics list, I can still see upside in this book even from these levels once the movie is finally confirmed.

Recent sales:

9.4 $138,000
9.2 $117,000
8.5 $52,800
7.5 $28,500
7.0 $37,200 (!)
6.5 $24,900
6.0 $24,600
5.5 $18,500
5.0 $18,000
4.5 $11,500
4.0 $11,500
3.5 $12,000
3.0 $9,300
2.5 $6,300
2.0 $7,200
1.8 $7,000
1.5 $5,000
1.0 $3,900
0.5 $4,050

2021 MARKET UPDATE: DOOM AND SUB-MARINER TEAM UP ON THE WAY

If you've patiently waited on the sidelines for this book to cool off, then shame on you, you've missed some spectacular gains.

The increases to Fantastic Four #6 (team-up with Doom and Subbie) have cemented the belief that they will appear together in the FF Homecoming Marvel movie.

This is the hottest book of the early FF run. Recent sales:

9.4 $84,665
9.2 $72,000 (new record!)
9.0 $27,600
8.0 $24,000 (new record!)
7.0 $14,800 (new record!)
6.5 $11,400 (new record!)
6.0 $7,950 (yes, really)
5.5 $8,000 (yes, really)
4.0 $6,800 (OMG)
3.5 $5,650
3.0 $5,015
2.5 $4,000
2.0 $2,700
1.8 $4,000 (WHAT!)
1.5 $3,000 (!!)
1.0 $2,700

IF YOU BOUGHT MY RECOMMENDED GRADE LAST YEAR:

Here's the bottom line.

CGC 5.0 2020 $5,170
LAST SALE $7,000
PERCENT CHANGE +35%

2020 MARKET UPDATE: BIG GAINS POSTED IN MANY GRADES!

My tip for a Fantastic Four 5 grade makes me look like an idiot.

In a winning market, I picked the only "bad" grade. But in fairness to me, the last sale of a 5.0 was back in July 2019.

Since then, a 4.5 has sold for $6,000. I expect a 5.0 to sell for $6,400 or so, which would make me look smart again.

Many other grades of Fantastic Four 5 have posted new record sales. Especially at the top end of the scale.

Here are recent results:

9.2 $55,200 (new record!)
9.0 $28,500 (new record!)
8.0 $22,500 (new record!)
7.0 $8,100
6.5 $8,700 (new record!)
6.0 $5,880
5.5 $5,850
4.5 $6,000
4.0 $4,578
3.5 $3,778
3.0 $2,900
2.5 $2,500
2.0 $2,175
1.8 $2,097
1.5 $1,890
1.0 $2,300(!!)

2019 MARKET UPDATE: DOOM TAKES FLIGHT!

Big increases on Fantastic Four 5 all year since I tipped it. I am feeling pretty smug in general about the Fantastic Four comic books I tipped a year ago...

Though in fairness, I did say I thought this was more of a hold than a buy. So hopefully you didn't sell yours if you had one last time around.

Here are sales in the same grades as last year. This book is roasting.

I'm going to continue saying hold this until the FF movie is official.

CGC 7.5 $12,000
CGC 7.0 $9,476
CGC 6.5 $6,600
CGC 6.0 $5,822
CGC 5.0 $5,100
CGC 4.0 $4,155
CGC 3.5 $3,360
CGC 2.0 $1,876
CGC 1.5 $1,500

2018 MARKET UPDATE: A SLOW AND STEADY DOOM APPRECIATION

This year has seen (finally!) the first FF book heating up after years in the doldrums. It's brought others in the series along for the ride, including this first appearance of Doctor Doom.

Other FF books on the hot list:

Fantastic Four #1 | Fantastic Four #4 | Fantastic Four #48 | Fantastic Four #52

This book was feeling expensive to me a year ago, but steady if not spectacular gains have been seen at most grade levels.

To me, it feels like more of a hold than a buy. There are better percentage gains to be had elsewhere. Here are recent sales:

CGC 8.5 $10,700
CGC 7.5 $5,000
CGC 7.0 $3,900
CGC 6.5 $6,000 (!!)
CGC 6.0 $4,000 (!!)
CGC 5.0 $2,600
CGC 4.0 $1,450
CGC 3.5 $1,430
CGC 2.0 $1,300 (!!)
CGC 1.5 $750

2017 MARKET UPDATE:

A huge sale of $44,500 for a CGC 9.4 copy is the big news in this book's market. But what about the rest of us mere mortals? What about the books we can afford?

Typical to most Fantastic Four comic books, prices are not consistent. One grade will be up, and another down. However, overall there is more interest in this book than last year, so it's still on the Hot 100.

(The reason Fantastic Four #1 is not? It's simply stone cold.)

CGC 9.4 $44,500
CGC 9.2 $19,500
CGC 8.5 $9,700
CGC 7.0 $4,300
CGC 6.5 $2,400
CGC 6.0 $2,400
CGC 5.0 $1,890
CGC 4.0 $1,500
CGC 3.5 $1,100
CGC 2.0 $730
CGC 0.5 $300

Doctor Doom. After Doctor Who, perhaps the most compelling sci-fi Doctor of all time.

Pity the attempts at an FF movie have always fallen so flat. Not even Doom can rescue this franchise, which has been rebooted badly as recently as 2015.

It desperately needs a great script, hot director and big marketing push to rescue the best super-team of all, and don't forget the one which began the Marvel Age of Comics.

Our tip? Doom is too cool a character to not cross over into other Marvel Cinematic Universe properties. Time will tell, but prices on this book have began to uptick as speculation runs rife.