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What comics took the most number of years to become MAJOR key issues?

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Some books are "key issues" the day they are printed. Others seem to take 20 years to be broken out as a key issue in Overstreet.

 

So what books took the longest time to become a major key? (not counting Golden Age books which took until the first Overstreet was published in 1970 to be acknowledged as a key book)

 

Some that come to my mind are the late 1960's Batman books like:

 

Detective #359 first Batgirl

Batman 155 first silver age Penguin

Batman 171 first silver Riddler

Batman 189 first Scarecrow

 

 

I do not remember these as being key books in the early 1980's but they were by the 1990's. So it took 20+ years for them to become major keys

 

So what others are out there? Did any books take 30+ years to be broken out in Overstreet?

 

 

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iron man 55 took 20+ years for sure. Spiderman 50 (minor key?) perhaps as well

 

Somone paid $25,000+ for a copy of ASM #50 last year so I think it has moved into the MAJOR key category. Plus it has become an iconic cover.

 

 

 

 

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iron man 55 took 20+ years for sure. Spiderman 50 (minor key?) perhaps as well

 

Somone paid $25,000+ for a copy of ASM #50 last year so I think it has moved into the MAJOR key category. Plus it has become an iconic cover.

 

In my world its probably not a major key and what some whackjob paid for a mint copy is really neither here nor there ;) I agree that its become an inconic cover (OVERRATED cough cough) to some people

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How long did it take for that first Sabertooth in Iron Fist to become a key?

 

 

 

another good one, that took a while for the value to take off too. I'd say 15+ years?

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iron man 55 took 20+ years for sure. Spiderman 50 (minor key?) perhaps as well

 

Somone paid $25,000+ for a copy of ASM #50 last year so I think it has moved into the MAJOR key category. Plus it has become an iconic cover.

 

In my world its probably not a major key and what some whackjob paid for a mint copy is really neither here nor there ;) I agree that its become an inconic cover (OVERRATED cough cough) to some people

 

I don't collect Spidey but ASM #50 is right up there as one of the top 5 or 10 issues of the first 100 issues.

 

The big keys to me are:

 

AF 15

ASM 1, 2, 3, 14, 20, 28, 41, 43, 50, 90, 96, 97, 98, 100

 

 

 

 

 

 

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iron man 55 took 20+ years for sure. Spiderman 50 (minor key?) perhaps as well

 

Somone paid $25,000+ for a copy of ASM #50 last year so I think it has moved into the MAJOR key category. Plus it has become an iconic cover.

 

In my world its probably not a major key and what some whackjob paid for a mint copy is really neither here nor there ;) I agree that its become an inconic cover (OVERRATED cough cough) to some people

 

I don't collect Spidey but ASM #50 is right up there as one of the top 5 or 10 issues of the first 100 issues.

 

The big keys to me are:

 

AF 15

ASM 1, 2, 3, 14, 20, 28, 41, 43, 50, 90, 96, 97, 98, 100

 

I don't consider 2, 20, 28, 41, 43, 90, 96, 97, 98, or 100 to be major keys either. a MAJOR key should be a MAJOR deal. The first rhino or 'drug books' are cool/important/interesting but well short of MAJOR in my eyes.

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Some books are "key issues" the day they are printed. Others seem to take 20 years to be broken out as a key issue in Overstreet.

 

So what books took the longest time to become a major key? (not counting Golden Age books which took until the first Overstreet was published in 1970 to be acknowledged as a key book)

 

Some that come to my mind are the late 1960's Batman books like:

 

Detective #359 first Batgirl

Batman 155 first silver age Penguin

Batman 171 first silver Riddler

Batman 189 first Scarecrow

 

 

I do not remember these as being key books in the early 1980's but they were by the 1990's. So it took 20+ years for them to become major keys

 

So what others are out there? Did any books take 30+ years to be broken out in Overstreet?

 

 

10 years after it's publication ,FF 48 was still going for the same price as the rest of the issues from 41-50....the books after # 10 for most titles were priced in groups of ten for years. I got my first FF 48 for 75 cents in 1974....it was NM....those were the days :cloud9: GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

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I don't consider 2, 20, 28, 41, 43, 90, 96, 97, 98, or 100 to be major keys either. a MAJOR key should be a MAJOR deal. The first rhino or 'drug books' are cool/important/interesting but well short of MAJOR in my eyes.

 

 

The biggest Spidey keys in descending order in my opinion are:

 

AF 15

ASM 1, 14, 2, 3, 28, 50 ..... and then the rest

 

That makes #50 around the 7th most important issue. It's a MAJOR key, it was not for many years, but it's a huge key now.

 

Look what it's got going for it:

 

1 first Kingpin

2. iconic cover

3. semi-anniversary issue

4. subject of a Spidey movie (costume in garbage can)

5. a huge price on a 9.8 copy

 

 

There are very few Spidey books that can touch this one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ASM 5 & 28 are definite KEYS. :makepoint: ask any dealer. :gossip:

 

ASM #28 is not a "key" per say. PP graduating HS and the Molten Man origin are not earth shattering events in the world of Spidey. It has high value because of a very cool black cover that is hard to find in higher grades.

 

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ASM 5 & 28 are definite KEYS. :makepoint: ask any dealer. :gossip:

 

ASM #28 is not a "key" per say. PP graduating HS and the Molten Man origin are not earth shattering events in the world of Spidey. It has high value because of a very cool black cover that is hard to find in higher grades.

 

exactly! and the first appearances of two-bit villains (vulture, scorpion, rhino) aren't keys either. People seem to have this idea that every friggin spidey book is a key and that the first time spidey took a dump should be broken out in guide

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