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

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Sal

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:hi: It's all key to me.

 

On a related note, I'm poring over my reading copies trying to find the first time he got laid. If it's after the wedding issue, I'm dumping my collection. I could never look at him the same way if I found out he didn't tap Gwen before she died.

 

 

 

 

hm

 

 

 

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d.

oh.

d'oh.

 

 

:tonofbricks:

 

 

Good luck with the sale

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You are trapped in what I like to call " a Web of ASM Envy". You're not envious of other collectors who have ASMs, since you could buy them yourself, but you are, however, envious of the fact that ASM runs this beeyotch, and that the silly, silly books you collect will never see the kind of demand Spidey enjoys. ;)

Nah, I just despise Spidey.

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COI

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:hi: It's all key to me.

 

On a related note, I'm poring over my reading copies trying to find the first time he got laid. If it's after the wedding issue, I'm dumping my collection. I could never look at him the same way if I found out he didn't tap Gwen before she died.

 

 

 

 

hm

 

 

 

sin17.jpg

 

d.

oh.

d'oh.

 

 

:tonofbricks:

 

 

Good luck with the sale

 

That proves nothing. Everyone knows you have to lie about ex-girlfriends and what you've done with them, even Peter Parker.

 

Show me a thought bubble where Pete says he didn't tap that, and my books will be in the marketplace.

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cloudofwit

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Looks like she got around, just not with Pete.

 

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:roflmao:

 

You are trapped in what I like to call " a Web of ASM Envy". You're not envious of other collectors who have ASMs, since you could buy them yourself, but you are, however, envious of the fact that ASM runs this beeyotch, and that the silly, silly books you collect will never see the kind of demand Spidey enjoys. ;)

Nah, I just despise Spidey.

 

:whatthe:

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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

I got my first #48 for $2 in 1979 :luhv:

 

I got my first #48 for $105...in VG-...in 2007. :sob:

 

I think I got my first one for around $10? circa 1988. Those were the days. I used to buy tales of suspense issues (post #65) for $2.50 ea with paper route money :cloud9:

 

Iron Man 1 took three friggin months to save up for! ($30/mth didn't go too far towards buying $90 comics!)

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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

I got my first #48 for $2 in 1979 :luhv:

 

I got my first #48 for $105...in VG-...in 2007. :sob:

 

I think I got my first one for around $10? circa 1988. Those were the days. I used to tales of suspense issues (post #65) for $2.50 ea with paper route money :cloud9:

1992ish - $365 in NM+ :P
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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

 

:hi: It's all key to me.

 

On a related note, I'm poring over my reading copies trying to find the first time he got laid. If it's after the wedding issue, I'm dumping my collection. I could never look at him the same way if I found out he didn't tap Gwen before she died.

 

 

 

 

hm

 

 

 

sin17.jpg

 

Good work by JMS here.... :insane:

 

PP never slept with Gwen, but she had a go with Norman Osborn.... (uh-huh) What a steaming pile this is.

 

Any writer with any sense of character would concede that PP/GS slept together, and, not only that, but it's unlikely MJ would be surprised about it, or give a rat's azz.

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It wasn't until the Gerber Photo Journals came out that anyone knew how cool the cover to Suspense 3 was. Now it is one of the upper echelon books.

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dekeuk

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i think we still didn't have these 2:

 

detective comics 400 - 1st MAN-BAT

savage tales 1 - 1st MAN-THING

 

TEC 400 was an early key due to Adams art, all Batman Adams art issues were broken out early

 

 

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