Here’s a highly prized comic book in the Lizard Collection: a very well-preserved copy of Fantastic Four #50. It’s one of the books we’re planning to submit to the CGC for grading.

This is the third in a series that started with issue #48 — “The Coming of Galactus,” which marked the first-ever appearance of the Silver Surfer. The Lizard Collection also contains issues 48 and 49 in the Galactus story, and I’ll post photos of them soon. You can see why these comics are valuable even apart from the rarity — the artwork and inking is exceptional throughout. And all produced in the days before Photoshop.

(The reflections are caused by the acid-free plastic bags in which the comics are stored. We didn’t want to risk taking them out of the bags to photograph them, and didn’t have an ideal picture-shooting situation with lights and umbrellas. The photos I’ll be posting are purely for documentation purposes, and were taken with a tripod-mounted Canon G10 or a Canon A720.)