FANTASTIC FOUR #111

Graded at 8.0 (VF) on 2026-11-02, from new photos taken out of the sleeve: front, back, spine and interior page. Glossy, flat cover with sharp corners. A few tiny color-breaking ticks beside the top staple. Clean back cover. Cream to off-white pages.

Fantastic Four #111 arrived in June 1971 during the transitional period after Jack Kirby's exit from the title he co-created, with John Buscema stepping in on pencils over Stan Lee's scripts and Joe Sinnott's inks maintaining visual continuity with the Kirby run. The issue is a routine adventure entry in Marvel's flagship team book rather than a landmark chapter, but it captures a notable creative handoff moment for the series as Buscema settled into a role he would hold for an extended stretch through the early-to-mid 1970s.

Market data shows a typical long-tail Bronze Age curve: modest values through the mid-grades that climb sharply only at the top of the census, with the 9.8 tier commanding roughly forty-five times the mid-grade price despite a reasonably deep population of graded copies. Trading activity is thin across most grade bands, with sales concentrated at 9.4 and above, indicating that demand is driven almost entirely by high-grade completists building out full Fantastic Four runs rather than by any first-appearance or story-specific interest.

This is a collector's-run book rather than an investment-grade key: buyers are largely FF series collectors and Bronze Age Marvel completists seeking presentable copies to fill a title gap, with raw mid-grade copies moving steadily but cheaply and high-grade slabs the only meaningful value driver. Entry-level and mid-grade copies remain widely available and inexpensive, while pristine 9.8 examples see disproportionate premiums reflecting census scarcity at the top rather than any inherent story significance.