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Its one sale but just saw a voldy ASM 301 in 9.2 T Mac "verified" sig go for nearly 800 with the Ebay tax and shipping. I think GPA high for 9.2 yellow is nowhere near that. This was a voldy copy and not even a witnessed sig. I don't know that I'd be so quick to assume a huge widespread tanking of Mcfarlane signatures. There's a reason they have boatloads of submissions at 120 - 150 a pop. If the demand wasn't there Todd wouldn't have to do this over a period of time with multiple trips.

What I'd be curious about is the average amount CGC gets in whenever they have one of these in house events. I mean 32k would seem to be an excessive amount without knowing how many they typically get in.

Wonder if there are any estimates of the total submissions for this event? I read on IG something in the range of 30k but have no idea about the reliability of that.

No the first app has been debated for at least as long as cgc has been around. The prior issue had a very brief appearance of the venom hands on the last page. Some believe there were "appearances" in two issues of Web of Spider-man long before. Imo it is the first time anyone saw the character clearly displayed in full body but just my opinion. CGC decided at the start ASM 300 is the official first "full appearance" and 299 is just a "cameo". I'm with you in seeing this as the first but others disagree.

Been wanting to get this signed for years. Finally happened! Thank you CGC in house signing🤘

Ah yeah that's the page where the Eddie silhouette is standing in front of the wall with newspaper clippings of spider-man pictures. It then splits into several smaller panels at the bottom where the hands get enveloped by the symbiote. I was thinking of another page. Anyway very cool!

Is 298 the page with the symbiote covering Eddie Brock's arm? I think it's him looking in the mirror or lifting weights becoming enraged then in a separate smaller panel it's the arm and symbiote. Where exactly did you request the signature if you did window bag it?

If there's no window bag and it's a large negative space like a blank cover, he'd probably sign it larger but not occupy the whole cover. I suppose he would use his best judgment. He's signed those blank covers in the past large enough to occupy maybe a quarter of the cover. Sometimes in those cases, he draws an extra little line coming down from one of the letters (like a webbing string) with the little spider at the end.

He could either sign his first name on top of the last or the "T. Mcfarlane" in those specific examples. He'd rather do that than sign the full name horizontally on top of artwork if avoidable.

I sent him a page not a book. Last page of ASM 299. Nice empty parking space on the upper right section of the page👍

Yes I'm referring to the scroll label that had to be corrected. Hopefully they're using the new ones now. Otherwise hoping it won't be necessary to print out another submission form in the event I get the obscured version and need to send back.

@CGC Mike any word on the scroll labels yet? I only ask because my submission is being encapsulated now and would want to know which version I should expect. Thanks for your efforts.

So it was either a big subscription crease or mangled up corners with these copies back then. Or maybe both. If you had one of those small mail slots where everything gets jammed in it must've been a death sentence for these poor books 😱. I can't imagine people ordered these with high expectations back in the day.

Do you know if the updated labels were delivered?

Wonder why they advertised this so heavily when the primary audience for comics were kids too young for this (I think). Or were young adults reading comics back then? These ads were on every bronze age marvel and sometimes in the pages too.

Yes Andru was on a pretty good tear by that time. I'm almost sure those 2 were from the same submission. Both came from Lone star comics.

Kane started penciling in issue 89 summer of 1970

This is very true. It's just as easy to get caught up in a significant downturn as it is in a significant upswing. I keep thinking the wild card out there is the pandemic crowd that swooped in now having skin in this game. These people have not fallen off the face of the earth. The possibility they come back and start competing against each other to some degree shouldn't be discounted. I don't know if this would be a good or bad thing for comics but it might be a reality. Cash will not be king forever anymore than a supercharged 2020 style QE/ZIRP environment was sustainable long term. Only thing we know for sure right now is it's a terrible idea to put up a big high grade key for auction if you don't have to.