Is this Spidey 1 restored? (Now with high res photos!!) 0

[ghengishahn]

Thanks for the insight guys. I told the buyer I was going to pass.

[Fedoraman]

That is a recreated cover by Matt Nelson.

[divad]

That is a recreated cover by Matt Nelson.

 

How do you know?

[Fedoraman]

The real "tell" here besides the same mis-cut of the FC is the matching color breaking "creases" in the blue portion of the BC through the words morning and store as well as the line in the white above the guys head:

 

 

 

That is definitely Matt's ASM #1 cover.

 

What is really disappointing here is the fact that someone is trying to pass this off as the real thing...

 

[Ze-man]

This place is awesome, nice catch Fedora. All this time we were looking at a photo copy of a restored ASM 1

 

Thats a riot.

 

 

[divad]

Looks identical. One would have to have it it hand to do so? Or can this be done digitally? Paging buttock (with an apology ) . . .

 

And I have to state the obvious, "Whither the arseman?"

[divad]

This place is awesome, nice catch Fedora. All this time we were looking at a photo copy of a restored ASM 1

 

Thats a riot.

 

 

 

Fedora is our resident repro-cover maker.

[buttock]

Looks identical. One would have to have it it hand to do so? Or can this be done digitally? Paging buttock (with an apology ) . . .

 

And I have to state the obvious, "Whither the arseman?"

 

(thumbs u

[ghengishahn]

I knew something seemed fishy with that cover! Good catch on the cover reproduction! All of a sudden, $4000 for that book seems incredibly high.

[Crowzilla]

The black line that goes down the spine of Spidey #1 has a break in it and is not solid all the way down on a natural copy.

I am surprised that when Matt restores a book he fills in this break to make a complete line - unless that is something he does on the recreated covers only so they are even more of a give-away

 

[trmoore54]

I knew something seemed fishy with that cover! Good catch on the cover reproduction! All of a sudden, $4000 for that book seems incredibly high.

 

This is, thus, a coverless copy 0.5...worth $500-1000 max.

[trmoore54]

The black line that goes down the spine of Spidey #1 has a break in it and is not solid all the way down on a natural copy.

I am surprised that when Matt restores a book he fills in this break to make a complete line - unless that is something he does on the recreated covers only so they are even more of a give-away

 

What black line are you referring to? I'm confused...

[Crowzilla]

What black line are you referring to? I'm confused...

 

The black line that separates the front cover from the back cover. You know the long vertical line...

[Fedoraman]

The black line that goes down the spine of Spidey #1 has a break in it and is not solid all the way down on a natural copy.

I am surprised that when Matt restores a book he fills in this break to make a complete line - unless that is something he does on the recreated covers only so they are even more of a give-away

 

I respectively disagree. This is the back cover from a 9.4 ASM #1 that clearly shows the entire black line:

 

 

Unless you are referring to the small "tick" mark in the middle

[Crowzilla]

Yes, I am referring to the small "tick". I would say a great majority of color touched copies have that filled in, and it is a sure-fire giveaway if you are ever in doubt (especially from a photo).

 

[Mr. Zipper]

This revelation adds a whole new level of depth to the mystery. Clearly, someone using Matt Nelson's services for a repro cover is someone familiar with the hobby... and may be known to the community.

 

Your garden variety Craig's List scammer isn't going to Matt Nelson to get his scam bait.

 

It would be interesting if Matt had a customer that requested a repro ASM 1 cover in the area of this seller.

 

[Ze-man]

I forwarded all of this to Matt and will see if he can shed some light as to who had the work done(and if the book in this thread really is his work)

 

And if it is, was it done for the same guy who listed it on Craigslist as NM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ninjamurf-migration]

This is, thus, a coverless copy 0.5...worth $500-1000 max.

So is that automatic? Any reproduced cover is automatically considered a coverless .5? Just wondering as there seems to be a number of books with reproduced covers on Ebay at the moment. Just wondering what the "real" grades might be. Does it matter if the interior is nice or are all coverless books dropped to .5 out of the gate?

[garthgantu]

Gotta say - this thread truly illustrates the value of these boards. I haven't been frequenting the boards lately, but with WonderCon looming I thought I'd "bone up" on the latest in scams, conspiracy theories (or just plain conspiracies ) and resto cons... And I'm really glad I did.

 

Kudos

[Brian Whitley]

So what ever became of this?