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Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Hey @rlextherobot, welcome to the Ross Andru thread. Yes, we posted that toward the beginning of this thread. There's even a real life recreation of the page Frank mentions in that letter in this thread as well. Keeping posting cool finds. -
New OPG Top 20 Bronze Age books
Spider-Variant replied to jjonahjameson11's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
, forgetting how old we collectors are becoming. -
New OPG Top 20 Bronze Age books
Spider-Variant replied to jjonahjameson11's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Haven't looked at this list in years. What happened to Amazing Spider-Man 121 and 122? Surprised to see ASM 101 above both of those. What about the 35 cent variant Scooby Doo? -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
I would totally wear this, if Steve would let me borrow it, lol. -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Hey @Get Marwood & I and gang, July 21 (which it already is across the pond) marks the fifth year of us posting about Ross Andru and the Amazing Spider-Man comics we loved as kids. I just wanted everyone to know that I have enjoined the last five years chatting with all of you. Steve started this thread originally as an ode to ASM 176 through 180, but we quickly expended it to include Ross's entire run on the series. I admit I have even snuck in other interesting, non-Spider-Man art as well. Here's looking at another five years! -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
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Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
This splash looks so much better in black and white to me, almost like the quality of Marvel's printing at the time detracted from the art. I don't like the hatchings on the roof either, but I love this so much more in black and white than colored. -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
I found this cool scan of the original art for Giant-Size Spider-Man #4 splash page. If you look at the bottom of the art board, there's no room for the indicia below the end of the art and it almost looks like it was glued over some of the art. But if I look at a scan from the actual comic, the indicia fits just fine. But look at the splash itself, it's tilted slightly to the right, where Ross's upper boarder is straight across. It looks like perhaps Marvel reduced the original art page slightly and then added the indicia below it, but they were a little careless and the page ended up tilted. Why these little quirks fascinate me, who knows..... -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
And even more humility from a man I feel would be a "rock star" in the comics industry if he were alive in the age of Internet and large comic cons. -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Here's another letter from Ross Andru to Joey Thingvall (the actor and comic book collector). It proves what we Andru fans had already deduced, that Ross Andru was an unassuming man. -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
I actually wish I did. We built plywood fake guitars and put smoke bombs in them. We had makeup and platform shoes. Would love to have a picture of those days. -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
The way Spidey lands here screams Andru to me. Those platforms, Steve, remind me of the time my brothers and I used to dress up like members of the band KISS, lol. -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Hey Steve, which panel on these two pages is most Andruey? See if we think alike. -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Well, the way he was sporting your clothes from the seventies I thought he may have been a relative of yours, lol. -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
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Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Thanks Lee. Really nice work by Dave on that helicopter. -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Thanks Lee, appreciate the heads up. I love these pencil scans with Dave's inks. So cool. -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Thanks Terry. Not many left to find, but I do spot a thing or two now and again. I do think Ross used some real buildings in ASM 143 and 144, but none that I haven't identified are famous. In other words, a needle in a haystack to find. -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Hey @cosmic-spider-man, how are things going my friend? -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Here's another Ross Andru real-life reference I found in Amazing Spider-Man 143. It's nothing major and I should have spotted it before, as there are not many airports Peter Parker was going to fly into in Paris. It's a really good match to Charles de Gaulle airport. As usual, I highlight the matching features. It fits the detailed work did on this book, as Ross depicts a great JFK earlier in ASM 143 and at the end of ASM 144. -
I looked around a little, but could not find it. Very nice piece.
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I found this email address for him online. No idea if he still uses it. ronadrian@gmail.com
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This Week in Your Bronze Age Collection!!
Spider-Variant replied to TupennyConan's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
That's what I call a good friend. -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
That's the panel that my eyes get drawn too, Steve. Exactly my feelings, very Andruey! -
Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
Spider-Variant replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
I really like Ross's and Mike's art in this one shot from 1976 for Planned Parenthood. Amazing Spider-Man vs Prodigy. I enjoy finding the little notes on the art board. Here, to the Artist: Fix Face. You can see the white out on the guy's nose on the lower right, apparently the needed fix. Another note to the colorist is to keep the villain green. And in great Ross tradition of adding a NYC feel to the story, here Spidey is scaling the Pan Am building.