Spider-Variant

My preference of those who inked Ross during his ASM run were: 1. Giacoia 2. Mooney 3. Esposito 4. McLeod 5. DeZuniga I think I got everyone. Didn't enjoy the inking in the Giant-Size Spider-Man issues for the most part.

I don't even want to know what you spent on this Masterpiece, but I guarantee you will look back at this purchase down the road and be as happy as you are today. I posted a couple of pages back about the roles of the primary inker and the background inker, although admitting there was no delineation of what was what sometimes. I'm guessing this is all Giacoia here, as not a lot of background in it. I had never seen this piece before today either. I was actually just thinking about it the other. Not a lot of us on this thread, but we have fun, pull for one another, and all enjoy the work of Mr. Ross.

Nice work, I love that second to last panel. Can't wait to read it.

Yes, all three had nice art. I really enjoyed them as a kid.

Thanks everyone for sharing their latest bronze age purchases. As I have posted before, I really enjoy seeing these one-off (well one-off to me, since I didn't collect them) issues that my older brother and I had picked up on a whim. Brings back some solid nostalgia for sure.

My older brother started me down the path to collecting comics about 45 years ago. So, I in turn, tried to turn my younger brother to the Dark Side as well. He had some of the Master of Kung Fu books but he never really got the bug like I did. I always remember how different the art seemed to be in those MOKF books compared to the other stuff I was collecting at the time. Didn't even pay attention to the artist until years later. Good stuff for sure, thanks for sharing.

Holy! Apparently I was wrong, the Big Wheel is a Big Deal. Well, at least this original cover art for ASM 183 was, bringing in $45K. More than I thought it would go for.

GetMarwood&I lists the terms in a post up above. It's just putting a Ross Andru inspired jigsaw puzzle together.

Hey, @ADAMANTIUM, @FoggyNelson, @HighVoltage, @ganni, @Winterboy, @MGsimba77, @piper, @tv horror, @bababooey, @Martin4 plus anyone else I may have forgotten. Anyone up for @Get Marwood & I 's Ross Andru Puzzle Challenge?

Steve, please list the board names so I recognize them,

Ah, sarcasm is wasted on youth, lol.

I'm in Steve. I'm probably the furthest distance from you, so perhaps you can solicit who wants to play, and put together a rough mailing plan. Don't think it would need to be elaborate. Like if some of the folks are from the UK, you could send it to them first, then to the next closest country, etc. Then perhaps the last person can mail it on to the person with the fastest time as the trophy. Just some suggestions, but I'm definitely in.

Could be, ASM 158 hit the stands on April 13, 1976 (damn 45 years ago yesterday, I remember buying that bad boy off the stands). So, probably 1977 or 1978 could be correct.

That's it. Looks like the head is slightly different, but that maybe just me. Anyone else think those two thugs look beefier in the puzzle picture? Look like a couple of defensive linemen tackling our favorite Spider-Man.

Good stuff.Garystar!

From the same issue as your puzzle. Cant link the panel at the moment.

It was the early 70s. Groovy.

It never made sense to me, even as a 7 year old, willing to suspend nearly all disbelief. Spidey is in space, menaced by billion-mile long Octopus tentacles, coming off some distant planet.

Of the three puzzles that you showed, you definitely bought the best one. I bought these three back in 1974 (photos from the web, I got rid of mine a few years back) at the toy store. I want to say all three were shrink wrapped together as a bundle, but that's really stretching my memory. I must have loved them, because some of the pieces broke off from wear. The Spider-Man Thor one is odd, because all it has for a villain is Dr. Ock's tentacles.

Ouch, my employer just blocked my comic reference site, so having access to ASM comic panels just got harder. That bottom puzzle is from Giant Size Spider-Man #4, with Spidey's head reworked. And the flying Spider-Man is from ASM 158, as you note. Again the head has been repositioned.

Nice Steve. I've never seen that puzzle. I love stuff like this. Does it have a year when it was produced on the box?

Very nice Winterboy! Hmmm, Double Date, interesting title.

This guy sold for $26,400. Not too shabby.

That is such a great page by Andru. I always loved the Tarantula as a villain. Superb dynamic action.

Frank Giacoia and Mike Esposito, mid-seventies NY comic convention. I definitely would not have been able to pick out Frank. Wonder where Ross was? He didn't seem like he would be the convention type, though.