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Amazing Fantasy #15 Club

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ivrimark

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I have all the covers of my comics scanned (jpg) and in my hard drive, but the image isn't on a website, thus doesn't have a URL, which seems to be required for this. I may just post it to a blog site and provide the link, for those who are just dying to see another AF15 in low grade.

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Mark

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abracadabra

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All right. I'll chime in. I have an AF #15 that I bought from the original owner a few years back. I sent it to CGC and got a 5.0. Everyone that has ever seen it has agreed that it was undergraded and graded it between 5.5 to 6.5 (I bought it as a 6.0). I love the book and am actually fine with the 5.0 grade. But one of these days I'm gonna send it back to CGC and see if I can get a little bump. Here is the only picture I have right now and it's not a good one. I will post a better one after I get it regraded!

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ivrimark

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Here’s what happened last month at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Since I was in town, as a first-time tourist, I checked out the Periodicals Reading Room which has lots of old issues of comic books. After quite a rigamarole to register as a user and about an hour of paperwork, I found myself with a half-dozen copies of some old EC comics from the 1950’s that I’m sure I’ll never see again. Always wanted to do that. But also, I found out that the Library had just received a donation of the original artwork for Amazing Fantasy 15!

 

http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0805/spiderman.html

 

http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=290

 

Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough time left in the day for another paperwork drill which would have enabled me to view the actual artwork. I did, however, get to see the large, high-resolution digital scans of it all, and those scans are not available on the Internet, only from within the Library itself.

 

The most interesting was the first (splash) page. The banner (“Spiderman”) had been completely whited out and re-drawn; of course, there’s no way of knowing what the original layout was. Also, the profile face of the girl on Page 1 was also whited out and re-drawn. That’s the only place I could see where Steve Ditko’s art was redone. There were about a dozen places throughout the story where dialogue within the balloons was changed.

 

Anyway, it was an interesting view. If you ever get to Washington, go to the “Prints and Photographs and Reading Room” in the Madison building and apply to see the original art. Actual originals of the Gutenberg bible, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Magna Carta, and Amazing Fantasy 15 – yeah, that about covers it.

 

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Mutant Manatee

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The most interesting was the first (splash) page. The banner (“Spiderman”) had been completely whited out and re-drawn; of course, there’s no way of knowing what the original layout was.

 

In this photo you can see that there were originally webs drawn around the Spider-Man figure on the top banner, and we also get a peek at what the original logo looks like under the paste up:

 

 

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Mutant Manatee

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I agree, that original logo was pretty bad.

 

Notice also that they changed the spelling from Spiderman to Spider-Man, adding the hyphen. Stan Lee said that he thought the original spelling looked too much like "Superman" at first glance, so he added the hyphen. However, in AF #15 it is spelled "Spiderman" everywhere else throughout the story. The hyphenated spelling appears only on the cover and splash page.

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