Comic book collecting with a foreign variant focus 20 20

[Barbarian]

Very cool that the Portugese version uses the rejected Ditko cover.

 

Yes, the Editor decided to show some Ditko love on that one.

 

They did use a revamped version of the original on the second number.

 

[TheLiamSturgess]

I got this on eBay if anyone wants it. No reserve auction with very low starting bid.

 

 

As in, for sale?

[Chespirito]

I think I'm turning Japanese...I really think so...

 

 

[lscomics]

Nice.

[Define999]

Great books guys! Keep them coming!

[lscomics]

Here's a few more that just came in today. I had to have the Lois Lane for the Adams cover, the Titans #1 was cheap, the Titans #2 was a little more expensive but it's the first Deathstroke and a double cover to boot.

[Define999]

Here's a few more that just came in today. I had to have the Lois Lane for the Adams cover, the Titans #1 was cheap, the Titans #2 was a little more expensive but it's the first Deathstroke and a double cover to boot.

 

Very nice haul!

[spidercrazy]

They did use a revamped version of the original on the second number.

 

 

The 'revamped' portuguese version is taken straight from Marvel Tales #137, this cover was also used in Greece. Italy's L'uomo Ragno 18, however, used the original Amazing Fantasy #15 - it was published around 1970 or 1971 (perhaps the earliest foreign variant with this cover) and there were no reprint covers yet at this time.

This reminds me of the first time I read the story, 20 years ago, in a swedish pocket book - this was the second time AF # 15 was published in Sweden, but the first time that the swedes (and I) saw the cover, printed in black-and-white inside:

The box says "This is a look-back to how it all started!".

[Chespirito]

In Greece, I only know of two reprints, but I always felt there was a very earlier one. How does the cover to that Swedish pocket-book look like?

[spidercrazy]

The pocket book was published in 1985, there were 5 different pockets in the series, of which three contained Spider-man.

 

[marmat]

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Can you tell us a little about this book please...

 

Contains ASM 1 and 2 in BW with extra art added around edges of every panel to make it larger.

This book intrigues me... I never saw that series before... Cool cool cool book!!!

 

HERE you can find the cover gallery and table of contents. I am not an expert, but I guess this is the hardest to find spanish Spiderman title. My LCS has issue 1 and other for sale, but they are a little beated up, no better than GD, maybe GD+

[Chespirito]

That gallery is awesome, I always wondered about vertice and how far up in numbers they went, not very high it seems

[zzutak]

A couple of Manga-style comics from the late-1960s. Anyone familiar with either the title or the central characters?

 

[zzutak]

From the Golden Age:

 

[zzutak]

A trio of Green Lantern reprints from the mid-1970s (which now belong to another boardie) and a Batman from the mid-1990s:

 

[zzutak]

A couple of treasury-sized reprints from the mid-1990s. Das Ding

 

 

[marmat]

I love "Das Ding"

[Chespirito]

I love "Das Ding"

 

I bet you do ....you stud you....

[TheLiamSturgess]

I love "Das Ding"

 

I bet you do ....you stud you....

 

[spidercrazy]

In Sweden, The Thing was first translated as 'Bamsen' - a word that is mostly used as a nickname for 'Bear' but also means something like 'The big one'...