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Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
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Original Art from the entire Spider-Man vs the Prodigy! comic sold over on Hake's for $19.2K.  There were 15 story pages that Ross laid out on 8 original art boards.  So, about $2,400 per art board.  There were some really nice pages Ross did for this book, but as it really isn't in the Spider-Man continuity, the book itself gets little love, which is ironic considering the story...(: 

Hmmm, did Spidey predict the future back in 1976 in that last panel?   

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I somehow managed to fluke this £20 eBay purchase in the week:

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75p price variant!

I haven't read it for so long I can't remember what happens.

Something to do on a(nother) rainy day in Englandville :)

 

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On 8/5/2023 at 5:23 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I somehow managed to fluke this £20 eBay purchase in the week:

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75p price variant!

I haven't read it for so long I can't remember what happens.

Something to do on a(nother) rainy day in Englandville :)

 

Score!  I always wanted a Stan Lee signed copy.  Never bought one.  

Spoiler Alert:  Spider-Man and Superman win!

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On 8/5/2023 at 4:22 PM, Spider-Variant said:

Spoiler Alert:  Spider-Man and Superman win!

Oh, you've ruined it now!

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Anyone every get curious about that helicopter Ross drew on the splash of Amazing Spider-Man 147? For some reason, I :censored: up this morning and decided to find out about it.
As the story unfolds, Spidey is catching a ride on a helicopter to the city from the airport. He is returning from the Florida Everglades where he has just battled the Lizard and Man-Thing in GS Spider-Man #5. The story doesn't specifically identify the airport, but upon close observation, it can be identified as JFK airport.
The helicopter is a NY Airways Sikorsky S-55, based on my quick research. NY Airways was one of a few companies in NYC where you could take a helicopter from airport to airport, or even to the top of the Pan Am building. The company went out of business in 1979 after a couple of fatal crashes.
The weird thing for me was the floatation devices that Ross drew on the bottom of the aircraft. As I have come to find out after about three years of studying Ross's work, if he drew it, it was real. The flotation bags were required for flight over water with a single-engined helicopter. I'm not sure I would have trusted them though.
Ross does a great job on the helicopter. I feel Ross drew a better plane or helicopter, than he did cars. Ross drew one giant floatation device on the very bottom, but it looks like it was actually split. The only other nit was Ross had the arrow in the Sky Bus logo the wrong direction, but hell that is really nitpicking on my part.
May be an image of helicopter and text that says 'New York Airways, Sikorsky S-55 Helicopter NEW ÛYORKAIRWAYS YORK AIRWAYS Amazing Spider- Man 147 NEW-YORK NEW YORK ATRWAYS "THE TARANTULA'
May be an image of map, helicopter and text
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On 8/5/2023 at 2:20 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Nicely done once again, Reggie. Who doesn't love a great big chopper post :)

Thanks Steve.  I was laying in bed with my Marvel Essentials volume 7 by my side and just opened it up to that splash.  I have always thought that bird was a little odd.  I thought, well hell, Ross puts the name of the company that owned it right on the side, probably be an easy google to dig into.

 

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On 8/5/2023 at 2:37 PM, themagicrobot said:

This artwork will be pre-Andru but I didn't know where else to put this (apart from the recycle/trash)?? Anyway the UK weekly TV21 featured "The Spider-Man" in two page reprints consisting of re-arranged panels in the early 1970s. Many strips in the comic were in colour and reasonably accurate. For this hardback Annual he looks OK on the cover but within he is oddly and inexplicably all-blue.

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PS: This book must be the only place on the planet where Spidey, The Ringo Kid, the Silver Surfer and Homer the Happy Ghost share a book. 

Yes, that is weird.  I don't even recognize the story, but it looks like John Buscema art, so I can place the time period.

 

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On 8/5/2023 at 8:19 PM, Spider-Variant said:

Ok, a word was censored in my ASM 147 helicopter post.  Odd word to censor, but I promise the word I used was not dirty.  :preach:

Was it chopper? :)

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On 8/5/2023 at 8:22 PM, Spider-Variant said:

It rhymes with Broke.  Which is very apt for me.

Ah, right. That one's been banned Reggie. Along with non-Andru posting in the Andru thread :)

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On 8/5/2023 at 8:17 PM, Spider-Variant said:

Yes, that is weird.  I don't even recognize the story, but it looks like John Buscema art, so I can place the time period.

 

You should, Reggie - Buscema in ASM #80

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Albeit jumbled and chopped up a bit.

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On 8/5/2023 at 8:37 PM, Spider-Variant said:

Yup, that's where I was leaning.

Spidey looks bad in all blue.

 

Blue eyes...

Spidey's got, blue eyes...

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On 8/5/2023 at 2:09 PM, Spider-Variant said:
Anyone every get curious about that helicopter Ross drew on the splash of Amazing Spider-Man 147? For some reason, I :censored: up this morning and decided to find out about it.
As the story unfolds, Spidey is catching a ride on a helicopter to the city from the airport. He is returning from the Florida Everglades where he has just battled the Lizard and Man-Thing in GS Spider-Man #5. The story doesn't specifically identify the airport, but upon close observation, it can be identified as JFK airport.
The helicopter is a NY Airways Sikorsky S-55, based on my quick research. NY Airways was one of a few companies in NYC where you could take a helicopter from airport to airport, or even to the top of the Pan Am building. The company went out of business in 1979 after a couple of fatal crashes.
The weird thing for me was the floatation devices that Ross drew on the bottom of the aircraft. As I have come to find out after about three years of studying Ross's work, if he drew it, it was real. The flotation bags were required for flight over water with a single-engined helicopter. I'm not sure I would have trusted them though.
Ross does a great job on the helicopter. I feel Ross drew a better plane or helicopter, than he did cars. Ross drew one giant floatation device on the very bottom, but it looks like it was actually split. The only other nit was Ross had the arrow in the Sky Bus logo the wrong direction, but hell that is really nitpicking on my part.
May be an image of helicopter and text that says 'New York Airways, Sikorsky S-55 Helicopter NEW ÛYORKAIRWAYS YORK AIRWAYS Amazing Spider- Man 147 NEW-YORK NEW YORK ATRWAYS "THE TARANTULA'
May be an image of map, helicopter and text

Hey Terry, @cosmic-spider-man, did you buy this issue off the stands back in the day?  I missed this one, but bought 148 and 150.  Not sure why my collecting was so hit and miss until about issue 166, wherein I never missed another issue until 2009.  

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On 8/5/2023 at 5:20 PM, Spider-Variant said:

Hey Terry, @cosmic-spider-man, did you buy this issue off the stands back in the day?  I missed this one, but bought 148 and 150.  Not sure why my collecting was so hit and miss until about issue 166, wherein I never missed another issue until 2009.  

Hey Reggie no I did not get a 147 until several years later, my first ASM buy was 151 new off the spinner rack at a local Drug Store. Then I missed 152 but bought 153 up and got my first subscription with 166 which came in the brown paper sleeves that was so cool, I did eventually get a 152 a few years later. 

I found some cool comics I bought some years back that I might post on here if anyone is interested. It is four Marvel Tales Issues with Ross Andru autographs not sure the auto's are real or not and they are a little hard to see as they are done in marker on dark colored areas but maybe I can get some opinions on that here.  I don't remember the issue numbers but one is the reprint of ASM #151 (reason I bought them) and all four also have Mark Jewelers Inserts. :smile:

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