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Up for sale from my Spidey collection is a gorgeous Spider-Man #158 CGC 9.0 "30 Cent Price Variant"!! This issue is beautifully centered and comes with fresh WHITE pages!! Great eye appeal and a fantastic addition for any price variant collectors!! 1. No Probation or Hall of Shame buyers. 2. Payment via PayPal, Check, or Money Order. 3. U.S. sales only. 4. $15.00 Priority Mail shipping. 5. All sales final for CGC books. Spider-Man #158 CGC 9.0 "30 Cent Price Variant" WHITE Pages $159.00

Beautiful books! Here's another Spidey ped

What a sweet upgrade Jeff!!

Love those bright WHITE pages!! Congrats on another beautiful book

A 6.0 seems about right. On the centerfold, the bottom staple appears to have some rust transfer staining on the paper. Still a very pretty book!

Thank you!!! I've posted the annual before, but it's such a classic Ditko cover, enjoy sharing it again...

Fantastic pick ups!! Wish I had more #1's I could post, but alas I only collect Spidey at the moment, so here's my #1 again...

Great thread to revive!! Those are some sweet #1's you've got there Frisco!

What a beautiful copy and love that classic Romita cover!

Very cool book!! First time I've ever seen a Mexican edition pedigree Spidey!

Thank you!! It's been a long, fun journey searching them out! One of those Spidey ped's that don't come up for sale too often!

I do too!! And beautiful Mass ped

For any Spidey pedigree fans out there, recently picked up a couple more Green River's to add to the growing collection

Love this cover and just a gorgeous book! Congrats on this fantastic pick-up!!

Anyone enjoy date stamped pedigrees? Those are my favorite type of stamped books and Green River's are extremely cool examples!

That was a great article on the Larson pedigree collection! Came to find out that some of his books had written on them PN and ON, representing the distributors Publishers News and Omaha News. Very cool story and so informative

Appreciate it shadroch! Going to go over and check it out!

Congrats to both buyer and seller! That is a gorgeous book

Thanks for that info!! Very interesting, so the letter may represent a local distributor or possibly the national distributor. Or as shadroch noted, could even be the initial of the stocker who placed the books on the newsstand for sale! May never know the absolute truth but still very intriguing to me

Gotcha, so the R and P are probably the initials to a distributor's name so the retailer would know where to send the unsold books back to? I assume some newsstand retailers did the letter coding if they had multiple distributors to keep track of, while other newsstands may have only had one comic distributor and didn't need to do it?

Thanks for the response! The "R 2/15" date actually belongs to the back cover of ASM #48 which has a front cover date of 5/67. Could the R also represent a distributor's name?

Anyone out there that can shed some light?

Really curious, as I've seen various hand written letters in front of arrival dates and do not fully understand what they mean. My ASM #13 has a "P" written as does a copy from Straw-Man's ASM #22 (hope he doesn't mind me posting it). They look almost written by the same hand too. My ASM #48 has an "R" written arrival date on the back cover. What do these letters represent? Is it an abbreviation or initial for the name of the distributor to which the newsstand retailer will return unsold copies? If so, interested as to what distributor name would the P and R represent?? Or is it a special internal code used by newsstand retailers for something totally different? And are these letters sometimes used to identify pedigree copies as well? Really appreciate any and all information you fellow boardies may have on this topic! ASM #48 back cover...

One of my favorite Spidey covers! Gorgeous book and great seller!