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Also - I'm surprised that with all the generations and legacy and whatever the other events are that they're not throwing back to the original Wolverine numbering as that I think is closing in on #400 by now.

I would love them to keep with the legacy numbering, but it's clearly to milk a Thor 700, an ASM 800, the milestones for Daredevil and Avengers, wait a bit and then go back to #1's and return to original numbering for 900's.

My recollection - and this is 20+ years ago - is that comic shops had the Bagley flat cover in addition to the grey and the white. However, Newsstands ONLY got the flat cover. I need to check if my copy has the "direct edition" or not (I definitely recall buying that cover at a newsstand). I think, in any event, the "newsstand variant" simply caught on as an identifier not that it was only available at newsstands.

Slight stress on overhang of top back cover, discoloration / stress at top staple. VF+

Spine stress, staple stress, writing on front and back cover, slight tear top cover above the 'N', and what appears to be pre-Marvel chipping. I'd call it VG/FN+ so 5.0/5.5. I'd imagine it gets a slight bump so 5.5 is probably fair.

I'd love to be in.

Refocusing, maybe that means purging. I finished my complete ASM a few years ago and then got distracted, tried simultaneously to do FF and UXM completes but never stayed focused. Might pause the FF, focus on UXM.

1 - Iconic cover, #1 issue. 3 - Introduces either villain 1 or 1A for Spidey. 2 - Great cover, iconic villain, hard book to find in presentable shape due to red cover 4 - Another iconic villain's 1st. For whatever reason, my favorite early cover. 6 - Iconic villain's first, dropped because cover (to me) is dull. 9 - Great villain, great cover 10 - Eh cover, Enforcers irrelevant now, but were big deal for first 40 issues or so 7 - Second vulture...did we really need to see him again so soon? :-P 8 - Bumped because of the first Spidey - Torch interaction. issue otherwise. 5 - Way too early in a title's run for a filler issue. Such is life.

To locate? Not hard. There are always copies on eBay, at least. To come across at a store? Hit and miss, probably not so easy. To come across at a small show? Hit and miss, maybe not so easy. To come across at a large convention? Probably not hard. I have seen them in LCS's, but usually well over priced. I've seen them at cons, both large and small. To me, the undeniably "hot" books from the late 90's / early 00's always seem to show up just usually at a eye-popping price. It's the random fill in the run copies that don't seem to show up as much. For example. When I went in to fill in my ASM complete run vol. 2, #19 was fairly "common" in the wild (non-eBay edition) I had to take to eBay to find a vol. 2 #20. I'd guess it's because that was an easier retail return because of the 100 pager.

HG moderns are tough to me. There's 9.8 and not 9.8. This is not 9.8. Maybe 9.4?

That's probably my personal favorite modern variant (the fan expo with Stan). I just think it's perfect.

In addition to the ticks on the spine I also see stress on the bottom staple and slight wear on the bottom right edge of the front cover which probably looks worse in the scan than in hand. I think it's VF/NM / NM-

AWESOME! I hunted for years to find a nice mid-grade copy of this. I can imagine how excited you must be. This is just a great book.

Really great job packing and the shipping time was unbelievably fast.

I can't recall the exact specifics, but it was the word of mouth / google search after the first NY comic con that brought me here.

Rick - do you find that GA is slowing down on non-keys? If so, what's your theory as to why? Thanks - Trent

The thing that makes WD, for me, different than the other independents it inevitably gets compared to simply by virtue of being a B&W image title is that WD stays on time. A lot of monthlys that started out hot and cooled really did so, at least in my opinion, due in large part to a very erratic shipping schedule. Multimedia exposure, huge public pop-culture awareness, and an on-time schedule makes it an incredibly unique study.

Great book. Uncommonly good centering of the front cover. That's a real beauty.

And yeah, Superior is an incredibly good book. People that hate it just because it's "different" are missing out.

I don't think it's passed FF1, I'm not sure it's going to happen anytime in the near future.

Claudio's packaging is second to none and his communication is excellent.

I have no problem with someone that has their prices on a separate document (after all, why make it easier for thieves to target a bigger dollar item). I don't like dealers that price nothing and then pull out a guide.

Picked this up in the CC auction. I'm excited.

Because it doesn't have a sexy Mary Jane as Venom on it. That cover is by far the best spider man cover I've ever seen IMO. I would f***king die if I owned the OA to that cover.....I'm a sucker for drawn girls..especially Mary Jane..... I actually think it's a pretty terrible cover. I think if that's what's driving it, the 606 variants should be significantly more valuable.