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Nice! That one looked good even before a pressing!

Just wow. I feel like the CGC Census needs to disclose what percentage of 129’s live at your house.

That might possibly be the best $2.75 you ever spent.

Here is my ticket to ride: I'm slowly going back and upgrading the books I loved from my childhood. I thought I'd start by trying to put together a run of ASM 120 through 129, since the 120s were a pretty momentous (although very uneven) group of books. My first issue of Amazing Spider-man was 147, which I bought off the rack at age 8. I then went on to devour the original clone saga issues of 148 and 149. When I got this issue a few years later, I was incredibly excited, not because of the dude on the cover, but because it was the first appearance of the Jackal!!! Man, I was a dumb kid.

I have often heard the saying "there is no such thing as bad publicity," but I don't believe it myself. I'm more of an "all you've got is your reputation" kind of guy. I don't look at a dealer trying to sell a $600 book for $2.5M, and think, "Hmmm...wonder what else he's got?" However, I won't pretend that there is only one point of view on this. Anybody here ever buy from StockDoc? If so, what was your experience like?

Ugh. Stockdoc's auctions irritate me way out of proportion. Here's a fun exercise: Go to ebay and search for "Amazing 9.8". Then set your sort option to "Price+Shipping: highest first". The first 5-10 books will always be stockdoc's stupidly overpriced, modern slabs. Top on the list today is a 9.8 Amazing Spider-man #1 blank from 2015, which Stan has signed, sketched a stick figure Spidey, and written three of his catch phrases on. There is a long-scrolling page of these books on GPA; they appear to go for around $600. Not stockdoc's, though. He has his priced at... not 1 million dollars...not 2 million dollars... BUT 2.5 MILLION DOLLARS! That makes my head asplode.

By ages, Venom must rule the copper roost. (Although I totally share your love for the Goblin.) The Kingpin is a great villain, but Frank Miller did such an amazing job with him that he has migrated into Daredevil's rogues gallery for me.

I read my first issue of the Amazing Spider-Man at age 8. It was issue number 147 and I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. The issue ended with Spider-man, barely conscious and in chains, being thrown off the top of the Brooklyn Bridge. I was super bummed out that I had discovered this incredibly awesome Spider-man character in the very issue where they killed him off.