Pantodude

Howdy. Hope you all are well. Wondering if the garding gurus could shine their lights on this Amazing Spider-Man #2. Lotso pix for ya. Thanks in advance.

Take per pm. Thx

Hi. Do you think the grade would be different (presumably higher) had the cover been taped (via interior) to book instead of loose?

Hope all of you are well. How do you think CGC would grade this book with detached front cover and the page quality? Also curious how this would have graded had the detached cover been taped (on the interior) to the book instead, like some slabs have noted. I show the book in bag/board followed by pix of front cover (exterior/interior), interior pages, and finally back cover (interior/exterior). Thanks.

7.0 with press? The recent PGM IH181 is in a similar overal state, so might help to look at that.

GRRR! Only have one pedigree! Never been to Kentucky but like anyway because I frequent NYC's Bowling Green (or at least used to before pandemic)!

GRRR! Hulk like JIM's issues with Hulk prototypes too! But Hulk smash prototypes! See them here before destroyed!!

GRRRR! 1st of month! So appreciate 1st issue of JIM title! Or Hulk smash!

GRRR! 1st day of month so 1st issue of Strange Tales!

I'm sorry. This thread can't end with that. GRRR!

I had a long-winded version here, so edited. My runs are limited to the main Hulk and Spidey keys. I completed a run of the nine photo-composite covers with city (presumably NYC!) backgrounds. If i find a tenth or more, I will hunt them down.

BTW, the colors on this book actually are exceptional. Whether or not HA scans have high contrast, I have yet to find Hulk #1 pix on HA (at this or any grade, and HA has sold many Hulk #1s over the years!) with colors that pop like this. I just checked HA's scans again....this book stands out without exception, even the thumbnail! So in this case, at least, the nicer colors do not appear to be due to peculiarity of HA scans, as confirmed in hand. The white areas in the text bubbles on the front cover are "whiter" than what I see on Hulk #1s in general, which makes the red and black pop in there. The yellow is brighter too. Because it's an all around thing, perhaps this book was printed rather early in the run, with fresher ink?

So that's why you can't spell "surfer"! Oh wait...that was like nine months ago. Maybe, just maybe, you learned that word by now, l'il one? If you like the surfer, then you are in great company here. I'm "somewhat" partial to the Hulk. Also like Spidey, Batman, Supe, Wolverine, and of course Silver Surfer, very much.

Do we get paid per word or per scintillating comment?

My favorite comic book hero. Damn. Let me see. This is tough. Just give me a few. Oh, I'm almost there! Okay! Nah, just too hard to say.

I guess we have enough folks putting their reps on the line to wrap this up, so the winner can brag and the losers can sulk for more of the weekend! Reveal: blue 5.5, off-white to white pages. AmbassadorSlip is the winner! Got it right on the nose. Congrats! My first impression was the cover looked quite nice with just minimal MC along right ege and rather sharp/nice edges and corners, with no significant creases or tears, with an especially nice unbroken color on this ridiculously dark front cover. The back cover looks really good...I can't see any issues except the mid-spine CT removal and the lone tiny mark lower right corner. Even the spine otherwise has minimal stress, because otherwise the front cover (which is so dark) would show it? I had not noticed that the small white area lower front cover might also have been some CT removal (as opposed to MC), but that is tiny on this otherwise nice black cover. So, overall I thought it was at least 6.0. So I was off, but not so off to be discouraged. So in short, I agree with the comment that the book presents really well, especially the dark areas of the front cover. The evident structural integrity of the spine (modest stress/wear) and those edges/corners, which are better than some 5.5s I've seen, counts for something too, as well as the OW/W pages. I wonder if it has a shot at a 6.0 at least, if resubmitted.

Take per PM.

You mean from the mid-spine, rear mainly. Conveniently appears to be mostly isolated there. That is my assumption when grading this one. These Heritage Auction pix are very detailed!

GRRR! I mean, good evening folks. I've been trying to guestimate grades of late, hoping to improve. Curious how the gang would grade this book. The pix below are hopefully detailed enough despite the book being in a universal slab. Grade reveal at end (like in a few days i guess?), along with what I thought it could be, for what it's worth! And of course I start the fun with this: BTW, assume the faint straight line along bottom back cover is just case-related shadow, i.e., there is no color variation down there. I've seen many pictured slabs with this.

The Heritage auction book the thread was talking about....3.0 blue (post resto removal).

15,000. Both buyer/seller could (should?) be happy.

In looking for more variant goodness in my stuff, I found this. I am assuming this "1/-" price means pence variant. Actually means shilling! Damn inflation.

I also have this one! This thread by Colosuss is Awesome! was cool (and thanks Get Marwood & I for that thoughtful older, prior thread on variants--very well done). I now appreciate this book more (and all the other books posted on this thread) and hope to find more in my collection. Now I'm kinda bummed that I am almost done with my collecting projects, without having sought these out before. My wife has been super cool with my hobby buys to date on the assumption that I was winding down last year or so. She will kill me if I start another project for pence variants!

Who woulda thunk that you actually dig these variants! That's what I get for joining the party late. Anyway, your Tales books tickled a memory of mine so I did a quick look and found this! This is unusual, isn't it, because it retained the MONTH under the issue number? I haven't ever seen that. Edit: Only TWO on the CGC census? 328 for the 12 centers. My book has been around a bit, so not a slab candidate. But only TWO? The pattern appears to hold.

I edited my post a bit after-the-fact, so perhaps you could look at that, but I was referring to your calling them "foreign copies" -- the whole point made by the others in this thread is that they are NOT foreign copies. They are treated differently for a baseless reason, when seen in the proper light of how the 35 cent variants have fared. BTW, I initially said "it dont" trying to be cute, and I changed it knowing that some folks -- ahem -- would jump on that to be a bit annoying.