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Spider-Variant

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  1. Yes, those Zen pages don't go for much, but I think you got a deal.
  2. The art from MTU #3 was so much better than Issue #1. Amazingly so in my opinion. Mike Esposito inked Issue #1, while Frank Giacoia inked #3.
  3. Oh that's good stuff. Steve has a page from ASM 137 and I like a fool, sold my page from ASM 145. I honestly feel worse about selling that than my AF 15.
  4. Hey @cosmic-spider-man Steve found this little nugget two years ago. The signature is hard to read though. So, according to this, Ross did make a convention in 1992, but neither Steve nor I could find any info on it. Damn, how cool would it have been to be there, on that day. People had no idea what a talent this guy was back then. This was about 1.5 years before this death.
  5. Did he give you any idea how he obtained them? I'm guessing Ross would have been a hard signature to get. I've never seen him in a convention photo or any Marvel event for that matter. If they are real great get, if not, you did alright.
  6. Hmm, I don't know Terry. It could be Ross and I do see some similarities, but I wouldn't bet my life on it. Here are some signatures from the mid-seventies compared to your book's signatures, which at the earliest would have been in 1981.
  7. Oh man, I remember those brown wrappers like it was yesterday. My subscription started much later, probably around Issue 188. Yes, definitely post those here. Maybe we can validate it.
  8. That's double cool. Kind of like your Captain America variant 35 cent variant.
  9. Hey Terry, @cosmic-spider-man, did you buy this issue off the stands back in the day? I missed this one, but bought 148 and 150. Not sure why my collecting was so hit and miss until about issue 166, wherein I never missed another issue until 2009.
  10. Yup, that's where I was leaning. Spidey looks bad in all blue.
  11. Ok, a word was censored in my ASM 147 helicopter post. Odd word to censor, but I promise the word I used was not dirty.
  12. Yes, that is weird. I don't even recognize the story, but it looks like John Buscema art, so I can place the time period.
  13. Thanks Steve. I was laying in bed with my Marvel Essentials volume 7 by my side and just opened it up to that splash. I have always thought that bird was a little odd. I thought, well hell, Ross puts the name of the company that owned it right on the side, probably be an easy google to dig into.
  14. Anyone every get curious about that helicopter Ross drew on the splash of Amazing Spider-Man 147? For some reason, I :censored: up this morning and decided to find out about it. As the story unfolds, Spidey is catching a ride on a helicopter to the city from the airport. He is returning from the Florida Everglades where he has just battled the Lizard and Man-Thing in GS Spider-Man #5. The story doesn't specifically identify the airport, but upon close observation, it can be identified as JFK airport. The helicopter is a NY Airways Sikorsky S-55, based on my quick research. NY Airways was one of a few companies in NYC where you could take a helicopter from airport to airport, or even to the top of the Pan Am building. The company went out of business in 1979 after a couple of fatal crashes. The weird thing for me was the floatation devices that Ross drew on the bottom of the aircraft. As I have come to find out after about three years of studying Ross's work, if he drew it, it was real. The flotation bags were required for flight over water with a single-engined helicopter. I'm not sure I would have trusted them though. Ross does a great job on the helicopter. I feel Ross drew a better plane or helicopter, than he did cars. Ross drew one giant floatation device on the very bottom, but it looks like it was actually split. The only other nit was Ross had the arrow in the Sky Bus logo the wrong direction, but hell that is really nitpicking on my part.
  15. Score! I always wanted a Stan Lee signed copy. Never bought one. Spoiler Alert: Spider-Man and Superman win!
  16. Of course the light blue/blue background of ASM 148 is another favorite.
  17. I always found the covers with yellow backgrounds to be some of my favorite. Probably the contrast between the yellow of the background and red and blue of Spidey' suit made them pop.
  18. Original Art from the entire Spider-Man vs the Prodigy! comic sold over on Hake's for $19.2K. There were 15 story pages that Ross laid out on 8 original art boards. So, about $2,400 per art board. There were some really nice pages Ross did for this book, but as it really isn't in the Spider-Man continuity, the book itself gets little love, which is ironic considering the story... Hmmm, did Spidey predict the future back in 1976 in that last panel?
  19. I'm not much of a collector nor speculator these day but wanted to give your thread a bump.
  20. $20 will almost get you two meals at McDonald's these days. That book is a better buy and much healthier for you. Good job!