FlyingDonut

On 11/20/2023 at 1:51 PM, Courageous Cat said:

yea, heritage if ya don't mind coughing up 25 percent of the final price

He won't. I certainly didn't.

On 11/20/2023 at 9:25 AM, tth2 said:

Heritage have auctioned off a lot of bound volumes, so you can look through their archives to get a sense of the valuations they get.

I have used Heritage on multiple bound volume auctions. They're good at presenting the items, they understand the marketplace, and they know what they're doing. I have used them for Hulk 1-6, Tales of Suspense 39-99, Tales to Astonish 27-101, Hulk 102-140, Captain America 100-140. I would definitely contact them ahead of time to let them know what you have and how they would present them but for this type of item they're the clear and obvious choice.

Is it time? I think so!

Alien Legion 1 just popped. About time someone made this into a movie - it is a great book, very highly recommended.

On 11/5/2023 at 8:58 PM, mrlatko said:

I have a nice Zaxxon in my basement arcade.  One of my favorites from the golden age of arcade games.  The 3D perspective was so cool and unique at the time in the early 80s.  Those crazy airplane waves in space are still my downfall.

A real one? That's awesome.

On 10/31/2023 at 4:06 PM, VintageComics said:

Dave has also been buying international copies and price variants for a long time. 

French Canadian variants don't count. Its just Canada.

White Spidey heads

On 10/11/2023 at 3:40 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I will look for them. I will find them. And I will post about them here 

On 10/7/2023 at 8:22 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Hello 

It's always nice to discover something new when you're looking for something else, isn't it. 

The other day, while looking for Mark Jewelers copies, I spotted something about Spidey #320 that I hadn't spotted before. I'm wondering how many of you might not have spotted it either, despite it being 34 years old and sitting in plain sight. 

The GCD has the two known versions - newsstand and direct....

...as does Pete's place, the home of Spidey Completists worldwide (one of which I used to be):

 

Here are my two copies:

 

Anyway, I was looking for a jewelers copy the other week and found that eBay USA had 205 results for "Amazing Spider-Man 320":

 

Of those 205 listings, 168 (83%) where the Direct Edition:

35 of them (17%) were the Newsstand:

None of them, however, were this Spidey head UPC version:

On eBay UK, 3 of the 12 copies for sale, and 3 of the 8 sold were this hitherto (by me) unspotted version:

 

So, none out of 205 listings in the US, but 6 out of 20 in the UK.

Hmmm....

I ordered a Spidey head UPC copy so I could do a full comparison but the seller sent me the Paladin UPC copy (I suspect on purpose, as I ordered one of each type which likely brought it to their attention). From the eBay images I've seen, the only difference besides the Spidey and Paladin UPCs are a tiny production related line under the word 'LATE' which appears on all the Spidey head UPC copies:

The indicias appear the same - no indication of a second printing or anything like that.

I've ordered some more copies and will do a full review when they arrive, but in the meantime I thought some of you might find this interesting if, as I suspect, it has passed you by too.

Oh FFS. Another stupid book to find.