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I'm hoping to pick up this copy soon. See if attaching files works

Great order, thank you very much.

Good buyer, thank you very much.

Anyone have any knowledge or anything related to the 30 or 35 cent variants that is original art related. Ie a stat of some sort? or even an OA that has the variant price on it? Ed

'cept you never buy my low grade over priced ones.....

Good buyer on a Cap 217 Ed

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My copy.

Maybe I've only noticed it for the first time but some of the reprint issues seem to sell pretty well. Are these hot compared to 2 or 3 years ago? Start with the Where Monsters Dwell 6, easy enough and good reason for the reprint doing well price wise. But all the Bronze reprints of hot or ubber key SA/BA Marvels seem to do very well. AF 15, Spiderman 101 121 122 129 even some of the minor keys. FF 48 49 50 52 112 other Silver Surfer or classic Doom issues. Avengers 54 55 57 and other Ultron As long as it's basically tough to get. The Amazind Adv reprinting Xmen 1 doesn't do as well.

Is there a master list, as with the 30 cent marvel variants?

Here's my copy.

I'd agree that I have little interest in the post Spiderman 289 Hobgoblin storylines, ASM 317 was a pretty good McFarlane though I suppose. I kind of view this period as an important peak in the history of Spiderman. With the dramatic death of Gwen and GG that pretty much took over the Peter Parker drama throughout the 1970s. The new characters were OK at best Punisher, GG2, Tarantula, Jackal, Black Cat with the punisher only coming into his own in the mid 1980s and the Black Cat later in the 1990s to now. Quite a few of the storylines were classic 1970s trash that are now seen as ironic at best. Spidermobile, Aunt May marrying Doc Ock, Clone saga. All subjective, and you may really like these characters or stories but the general consensus is they don't live up. There were some really nice short sagas and one shots but as ASM hit the 1980's there was a real need to escape that 1970s silliness. Some of the good ones IMO were 161 162 with Nightcrawler, 187 189 190 were decent, 200-203 pretty good too. Madame Web was weak as was Hyrdoman and that silly King Kong story as Hydro and Sandman got mixed up. Foolkiller issue and the spider cover/story of 228 were good. The Black Cat and Moon Knights stories were OK at best. The Juggernaut 2 part was an early 1980s masterpiece and the start of the Stern / JR jr team getting good. Then you had the death of Tarantula which almost felt like an important story but kind of fell off as it went too far to the B movie monster route. Like they just watched Kingdom of Spiders or something. A couple one shots follow that feel like fillers, Stiltman? Once 238 came out Spiderman the the P Parker drama just seemed to shift to a better place. The energy for Spiderman went up: Hobgoblin, Costume change, Black Cat drama, Silver Sable, More Hobgoblin. Plus the change of Team up to Web of was a huge improvement. Even the one shots 246 and 248 are pretty much classics. Anyway, that's my argument, 238 was a turning point for Spiderman that got him unstuck from the 1970s and the aftermath of the death of Gwen.

Added a few since my last group shot. Sold a "cover-only" Archie 1 though, got sick of looking for an interior after 5 years or so. Anyone want to add to my theme feel free to send me a PM. And yes I need a Looney Tunes 1, FC 33 or Large Feature 8; thank you very little.

"But it was Owsley’s idea to kill off Jean DeWolff, and Al Milgrom and Bob Harras made the Hulk gray. That’s another story, though…" Which you can read a bit about in the Death of Jean Dewolfe TPB, another Peter David classic.

Pretty much all the full hobgoblin covers are classics but for the 289. What a lost opportunity for such a headline conclusion. The Gang Wars saga was a pretty good yarn with the hobgoblin covers only average.

So my question refers to the Tattooz in issue 238. The insert is clearly part of the book in that it is stapled and can't be removed. At least on all the ones I've ever owned. Does anyone have an issue where the insert is loose, and legitimately so? Also, how do you get the tattooz out (and/or back in) without messing up the insert. Or for that matter the comic. The CGC label says "Tattooz inside" for a Blue label and I assume that means the insert. One Green label will say "Tattooz missing from insert. Incomplete." I couldn't find the language for a missing insert. And of course the FF 252 has the Tattooz if they need to be replaced (though not sure how one does that)

I'm sure there's an ASM 238 somewhere but more than that I consider the Hobgoblin storyline to be defining turning point of Spiderman. Here's a pretty good link outlining its importance. I liked his review quite a bit. http://www.chasingamazingblog.com/2013/07/11/amazing-spider-man-238-original-hobgoblin-saga-part-1/ About the only complaint about the Hobgoblin you could have is that he isn't all that original. I'll counterpoint that by bringing up great characters that aren't original either. Thor, Mr Fantastic, Kitty Pride, All the DC Silver Age heroes reissued and many more. Really, the quality of a character is what's done with him over time not just the 1st appearance. And that's what makes Hobgoblin so good. From 238-289 to PPSS 85 and the ASM v Wolverine one shot; this 5 year action-drama was second to none. I'll admit my bias in that I basically started collecting as a teenager in the mid 1980s so these are pretty formative. And I fondly think of this storyline as the last great one that wasn't just crushed by crossovers, which started just after this with the Death of Kraven and Xmen craziness. Coming up, some pics and a question.

Great buyer thank you. Ed

I also thought there were some issues in the early 1960s with Vargas pinups that sell for extra.