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Amazing Spider-Man - Memorable issues?

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whetteon

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So I'm sitting here going through my Spider-Man keys and a thought occurred to me - other than the Obama cover Spider-Man that came out back in 2008, has there been any other memorable Amazing Spider-Man issues that one might consider key in 10 years?

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For recent issues, I personally like 655, cool cover, cool ditko-ish art inside by Marcos Martin, great self contained origin/recap story with 1st appearance of a creepy broken necked Gwen Stacy!! There aren't many modern comics I've read more than once but this is one of them.

 

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WDMARVELCOMICS

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From #400 up I think these ones will be Keys in 10 years I made my list up to the #583 Obama Variant.

 

Amazing Spiderman Vol.1

 

400 White Die Cut Cover

400 News Stand Art Cover

404 Carnage

408 Cassette Tape Variant

408 Cassette Tape News Stand Variant

410 Carnage

416 W/Cards Heroes Farewell + Onslaught Epilogue

427 Doc Oct

430 Carnage + Silver Surfer Carnage + Silver Surfer

431 Carnage + Silver Surfer Carnage + Silver Surfer

432 Spider Hunt Part 2

434 1st Ricochet + Ricochet Variant Cover

435 Ricochet

438 Daredevil

439 Age of Heroes HULK Thor Captain America

441 Last Issue

 

Amazing Spiderman Vol.2

 

1

1 Sun Burst Variant

1 Dynamic Forces Variant

2 1:4 Variant

19 Venom

22 Venom

23 thru 29 Very Low Print Run

36 9/11 Tribute

529 Civil War Part 1 1st Iron-Spiderman

529 thru 538 Civil War Arc

546 Variant

546 Sketch Variant

568 1st Anti-Venom

568 1:25 Variant

568 Sketch Variant

568 thru 573 Anti-Venom Arc

573 Colbert Variant

583 1st Print

583 Obama Variant

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The Obama issue and all the variants were a fad like "Hootie and the Blowfish" (1996 Grammy "Best New Artist" and 4 million albums sold)... that years from now it'll be bargain bin filler. I've already seen the subsequent printings for $1 or less.

 

I think the stories add substance to the books, as does the artwork, as well as 1st apperances of major characters. Not so much "deaths" since Marvel has their time machine that erases events.

 

I'd probably put on the list:

 

Issues by Steve Ditko

 

Issues by John Romita

 

Issues by Todd McFarlane

 

"Drug Issues, #100 & Six Armed Spider-Man"

 

"Death of Gwen/Goblin" (121-122)

 

"Kraven's Last Hunt"

 

"Black Costume" Issues

 

Of the non-AMAZING titles, I'd probably put in there:

 

Ultimate Spider-Man (That series was well written, including the recent Death issue)

 

Marvel Team-Up issues drawn by John Byrne, incl. #53 (1st X-Men art)

 

Spectacular Spider-Man #27-28 by Frank Miller (1st Daredevil art)

 

 

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whetteon

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From #400 up I think these ones will be Keys in 10 years I made my list up to the #583 Obama Variant.

 

Amazing Spiderman Vol.1

 

400 White Die Cut Cover

400 News Stand Art Cover

404 Carnage

408 Cassette Tape Variant

408 Cassette Tape News Stand Variant

410 Carnage

416 W/Cards Heroes Farewell + Onslaught Epilogue

427 Doc Oct

430 Carnage + Silver Surfer Carnage + Silver Surfer

431 Carnage + Silver Surfer Carnage + Silver Surfer

432 Spider Hunt Part 2

434 1st Ricochet + Ricochet Variant Cover

435 Ricochet

438 Daredevil

439 Age of Heroes HULK Thor Captain America

441 Last Issue

 

Amazing Spiderman Vol.2

 

1

1 Sun Burst Variant

1 Dynamic Forces Variant

2 1:4 Variant

19 Venom

22 Venom

23 thru 29 Very Low Print Run

36 9/11 Tribute

529 Civil War Part 1 1st Iron-Spiderman

529 thru 538 Civil War Arc

546 Variant

546 Sketch Variant

568 1st Anti-Venom

568 1:25 Variant

568 Sketch Variant

568 thru 573 Anti-Venom Arc

573 Colbert Variant

583 1st Print

583 Obama Variant

 

Nice list. (thumbs u

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ComicConnoisseur

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The Obama issue and all the variants were a fad like "Hootie and the Blowfish" (1996 Grammy "Best New Artist" and 4 million albums sold)... that years from now it'll be bargain bin filler. I've already seen the subsequent printings for $1 or less.

 

I think the stories add substance to the books, as does the artwork, as well as 1st apperances of major characters. Not so much "deaths" since Marvel has their time machine that erases events.

 

I'd probably put on the list:

 

Issues by Steve Ditko

 

Issues by John Romita

 

Issues by Todd McFarlane

 

"Drug Issues, #100 & Six Armed Spider-Man"

 

"Death of Gwen/Goblin" (121-122)

 

"Kraven's Last Hunt"

 

"Black Costume" Issues

 

Of the non-AMAZING titles, I'd probably put in there:

 

Ultimate Spider-Man (That series was well written, including the recent Death issue)

 

Marvel Team-Up issues drawn by John Byrne, incl. #53 (1st X-Men art)

 

Spectacular Spider-Man #27-28 by Frank Miller (1st Daredevil art)

 

The sad thing is just about everything you listed about Spider-man keys came out more then 10 years ago.

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From #400 up I think these ones will be Keys in 10 years I made my list up to the #583 Obama Variant.

 

Amazing Spiderman Vol.1

 

400 White Die Cut Cover

400 News Stand Art Cover

404 Carnage

408 Cassette Tape Variant

408 Cassette Tape News Stand Variant

410 Carnage

416 W/Cards Heroes Farewell + Onslaught Epilogue

427 Doc Oct

430 Carnage + Silver Surfer Carnage + Silver Surfer

431 Carnage + Silver Surfer Carnage + Silver Surfer

432 Spider Hunt Part 2

434 1st Ricochet + Ricochet Variant Cover

435 Ricochet

438 Daredevil

439 Age of Heroes HULK Thor Captain America

441 Last Issue

 

Amazing Spiderman Vol.2

 

1

1 Sun Burst Variant

1 Dynamic Forces Variant

2 1:4 Variant

19 Venom

22 Venom

23 thru 29 Very Low Print Run

36 9/11 Tribute

529 Civil War Part 1 1st Iron-Spiderman

529 thru 538 Civil War Arc

546 Variant

546 Sketch Variant

568 1st Anti-Venom

568 1:25 Variant

568 Sketch Variant

568 thru 573 Anti-Venom Arc

573 Colbert Variant

583 1st Print

583 Obama Variant

 

Nice list. (thumbs u

I wonder which ones have the lowest print runs?

hm

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ComicConnoisseur

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430 and 431 have absurdly low print runs. Anything after #1 and before 32 in volume 2 also had incredibly low print runs.

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These would be some real good books to pick up for as a long -term investment.

Spider-man is the gold standard when it comes to investing in mainstream super hero modern comics.

 

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From #400 up I think these ones will be Keys in 10 years I made my list up to the #583 Obama Variant.

 

Amazing Spiderman Vol.1

 

400 White Die Cut Cover

400 News Stand Art Cover

404 Carnage

408 Cassette Tape Variant

408 Cassette Tape News Stand Variant

410 Carnage

416 W/Cards Heroes Farewell + Onslaught Epilogue

427 Doc Oct

430 Carnage + Silver Surfer Carnage + Silver Surfer

431 Carnage + Silver Surfer Carnage + Silver Surfer

432 Spider Hunt Part 2

434 1st Ricochet + Ricochet Variant Cover

435 Ricochet

438 Daredevil

439 Age of Heroes HULK Thor Captain America

441 Last Issue

 

Amazing Spiderman Vol.2

 

1

1 Sun Burst Variant

1 Dynamic Forces Variant

2 1:4 Variant

19 Venom

22 Venom

23 thru 29 Very Low Print Run

36 9/11 Tribute

529 Civil War Part 1 1st Iron-Spiderman

529 thru 538 Civil War Arc

546 Variant

546 Sketch Variant

568 1st Anti-Venom

568 1:25 Variant

568 Sketch Variant

568 thru 573 Anti-Venom Arc

573 Colbert Variant

583 1st Print

583 Obama Variant

 

Nice list. (thumbs u

I wonder which ones have the lowest print runs?

hm

 

Out of the list I made #408 all the way thru Vol.2 #29 all have pretty low print runs, you don't see them very often in comic shops.

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430 and 431 have absurdly low print runs. Anything after #1 and before 32 in volume 2 also had incredibly low print runs.

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These would be some real good books to pick up for as a long -term investment.

Spider-man is the gold standard when it comes to investing in mainstream super hero modern comics.

 

The ones that have any kind of potential from that stretch (like the Carnage and Venom covers) more or less are already at the $15-$25 price point. Hard to call that a long term investment.

 

If I were to say there are any gems to be had from the modern ASM's it would be #400 (decently tough 9.8) #628 (Spider-Armor) and #649 (new Hobgoblin). The rest are fueled simply by low print run, and I don't think that makes a true investment especially with the scarcity being well known (and, truthfully, most ASM completionists already having their copies).

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430 and 431 have absurdly low print runs. Anything after #1 and before 32 in volume 2 also had incredibly low print runs.

 

For spider-man print runs yes. For an overall print run none of the books are very low printed. What makes them hard to find is that there is a large collection base looking for them.

 

Alot of the books on here arent necessarily key books, but books that are tougher to find due to low print run or gues stars in the book. Not trying to start an argument here, but defining what a key book might be will knock out alot of books from the list I see.

 

For Example

ASM 437 Marvel legend copy is very hard to find, but its not a key book.

 

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Alot of the books on here arent necessarily key books, but books that are tougher to find due to low print run or gues stars in the book. Not trying to start an argument here, but defining what a key book might be will knock out alot of books from the list I see.

Would be an interesting argument... does a book have to be significant in terms of character/story to be key, or is being tougher to find (with secondary pricing run-up enough) enough?

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From #400 up I think these ones will be Keys in 10 years I made my list up to the #583 Obama Variant.

 

Amazing Spiderman Vol.1

 

400 White Die Cut Cover

400 News Stand Art Cover

404 Carnage

408 Cassette Tape Variant

408 Cassette Tape News Stand Variant

410 Carnage

416 W/Cards Heroes Farewell + Onslaught Epilogue

427 Doc Oct

430 Carnage + Silver Surfer Carnage + Silver Surfer

431 Carnage + Silver Surfer Carnage + Silver Surfer

432 Spider Hunt Part 2

434 1st Ricochet + Ricochet Variant Cover

435 Ricochet

438 Daredevil

439 Age of Heroes HULK Thor Captain America

441 Last Issue

 

Amazing Spiderman Vol.2

 

1

1 Sun Burst Variant

1 Dynamic Forces Variant

2 1:4 Variant

19 Venom

22 Venom

23 thru 29 Very Low Print Run

36 9/11 Tribute

529 Civil War Part 1 1st Iron-Spiderman

529 thru 538 Civil War Arc

546 Variant

546 Sketch Variant

568 1st Anti-Venom

568 1:25 Variant

568 Sketch Variant

568 thru 573 Anti-Venom Arc

573 Colbert Variant

583 1st Print

583 Obama Variant

 

Nice list. (thumbs u

I wonder which ones have the lowest print runs?

hm

:gossip: The newsstand ones. Anyone want to guess which "key" on the list has a Modern newsstand price variant too. :grin:

 

 

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