Amazing Spider-Man Collecting Thread! 37 37

[Straw-Man]

i do.  it is part of my "every single asm s.a. appearance" run.   there are alot of 'em!

[Webhead2018]

So silly question with this thread mostly for silver where do most agree is last as silver and first for the next age after silver. Also do we have a mega as thread for other ages like this one?

[Straw-Man]

some say when price jumped from 12 to 15c, others [me included] feel like silver ended 12/69.   '70's books just seem like bronze to me.

[Sweet Lou 14]

23 minutes ago, Straw-Man said:

some say when price jumped from 12 to 15c, others [me included] feel like silver ended 12/69.   '70's books just seem like bronze to me.

Those are two popular dividing lines, and they're both pretty easy to keep straight.  Among the two, I prefer yours because I think July 1969 is too early.  X-Men #58 has a 15-cent cover price and to me that is definitely (late) Silver Age not Bronze Age.

But to your point about what books "seem like bronze," I would say Kirby's departure (FF #102 has a cover date of September 1970) is probably the single biggest catalyst for the change in the "feel" of the Marvel books.

[JohnH19]

The 25% increase from 12 to 15 cents seriously affected my love for comic books. I was only ten years old but it wasn't so much the 3 cents as it made comic books feel different to me. Comic books had always been 12 cents since I started collecting in 1965 and four years is forever when you're ages six to ten. Comic books were supposed to cost 12 cents!

The two month 15-25-20 cent circus in 1971 pretty well killed the hobby for me back then. I still bought Thor and The Avengers for another year but my heart wasn't in it anymore. I think the only comic related items I bought until I got back into the hobby in 1992 were the three ASM reprint pocket books that came out in the late 70s.

[Webhead2018]

Thanks guys for some of your thoughts. Just was curious for this thread specific where silver cut off was. Now do we got as threads for other eras too?

[KirbyJack]

There is a bronze Spidey thread, not sure of anything newer.

I agree that Kirby’s departure signaled the end of the SA. For the most part, tho, ages just kind of peter out. 

[Webhead2018]

Kirbyjack, you happen to have link to bronze age spidey thread?

[KirbyJack]

3 hours ago, Webhead2018 said:

Kirbyjack, you happen to have link to bronze age spidey thread?

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/110286-bronze-age-spideys/

 

[Spiderphill]

spidey group shot 

[Chaos_in_Canada]

[Webhead2018]

Kirby, thanks for that link.

[Straw-Man]

9 minutes ago, Webhead2018 said:

Kirby, thanks for that link.

he didn’t do it for you—cares only about his posts count.  

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