XXXPHOENIX's Bio
My name is FEDERICO, and I own one of the largest Marvel comics, cards, and sticker collections in Italy.
I own approximately 99% of all Marvel material ever printed in Italian, and I also collect U.S. editions, with a special focus on Amazing Spider-Man and X-Men runs. Living in Italy has never made collecting easy, especially for high-grade books, but despite that my ASM and X-Men collections are consistently in the 9.2+ range.
I also have one of the most extensive Marvel archives in Europe: thousands of U.S. comics from the 1960s through the 1980s in near mint condition, an important collection of Marvel posters from the 60s/70s, complete Marvel card sets from 1966 to 2012, hundreds of sticker albums, and around 1,200 CGC-graded books.
Shipping costs and customs duties in Europe make slabbed books extremely expensive and difficult to acquire, which is why I’ve always been highly selective: I focus only on very high-grade CGC books (9.0 and above) for key Marvel issues, while the majority of my collection remains raw.