Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club 9 9

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On 4/21/2024 at 3:32 PM, ganni said:

Glynis finally found time to dress Spider-guy up in this copy

 

Marvel Tales, my friend?

[ganni]

On 4/22/2024 at 10:08 AM, Spider-Variant said:

Marvel Tales, my friend?

Marvel tales indeed Spider-variant! Maybe everybody felt sorry for Spider-guy losing his pants.  While Spider-man and you(Spider-variant) have pants all the time!

Unless I have time to post the NBS variant of ASM#157....

[Spider-Variant]

On 4/21/2024 at 7:17 PM, ganni said:

Marvel tales indeed Spider-variant! Maybe everybody felt sorry for Spider-guy losing his pants.  While Spider-man and you(Spider-variant) have pants all the time!

Unless I have time to post the NBS variant of ASM#157....

I remember buying this issue off the stands 48 years ago.  So crazy what stays with you, but this small mistake registered in my brain.  

 

 

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High Definition photo from June of 1978 from the Spider-Man television series.  Ira Gallen posted these on Facebook and said he was the assistant director on the 2nd unit shooting.

I haven't seen any better resolution than these, so I just thought they were cool.    Not Ross Andru, but Ross Andru era.

 

 

[ganni]

On 4/27/2024 at 8:01 AM, Spider-Variant said:

High Definition photo from June of 1978 from the Spider-Man television series.  Ira Gallen posted these on Facebook and said he was the assistant director on the 2nd unit shooting.

I haven't seen any better resolution than these, so I just thought they were cool.    Not Ross Andru, but Ross Andru era.

 

 

the Ross Andru ERA  of spider-man should have a part in the spiderverse .....

 

[Spider-Variant]

Ok, here is a new comparison between the art Ross Andru penciled and the real-life reference he used.  I haven't done a new one of these in probably over a year because I thought I had found them all.  And for the most part, I had.  This one is subtle and I guess I knew it was there, I just didn't give it any energy.  

In Giant-Size Spider-Man #2, the initial action is set in the power plant over by 59th Street Bridge (Queensborough Bridge today) and I had covered that reference fairly extensively, mostly owing to the fact that Ross did not draw the correct power plant that is actually located by the bridge.  He corrects this in Amazing Spider-Man 152.

The end of the story in GS SM #2 is set at the Empire State Building and Ross gives the reader a few panels of the ESB, just to make sure we aren't sleeping.  But the thing I did not notice before was the little details he put into the ESB lobby.  I do feel he took a lot of liberties on the elevators, but he makes them ornate, like the actual ESB elevators, which I think is neat.

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On 5/2/2024 at 1:37 PM, Spider-Variant said:

Ok, here is a new comparison between the art Ross Andru penciled and the real-life reference he used.  I haven't done a new one of these in probably over a year because I thought I had found them all.  And for the most part, I had.  This one is subtle and I guess I knew it was there, I just didn't give it any energy.  

In Giant-Size Spider-Man #2, the initial action is set in the power plant over by 59th Street Bridge (Queensborough Bridge today) and I had covered that reference fairly extensively, mostly owing to the fact that Ross did not draw the correct power plant that is actually located by the bridge.  He corrects this in Amazing Spider-Man 152.

The end of the story in GS SM #2 is set at the Empire State Building and Ross gives the reader a few panels of the ESB, just to make sure we aren't sleeping.  But the thing I did not notice before was the little details he put into the ESB lobby.  I do feel he took a lot of liberties on the elevators, but he makes them ornate, like the actual ESB elevators, which I think is neat.

[mr_highgrade]

On 5/2/2024 at 2:37 PM, Spider-Variant said:

Ok, here is a new comparison between the art Ross Andru penciled and the real-life reference he used.  I haven't done a new one of these in probably over a year because I thought I had found them all.  And for the most part, I had.  This one is subtle and I guess I knew it was there, I just didn't give it any energy.  

In Giant-Size Spider-Man #2, the initial action is set in the power plant over by 59th Street Bridge (Queensborough Bridge today) and I had covered that reference fairly extensively, mostly owing to the fact that Ross did not draw the correct power plant that is actually located by the bridge.  He corrects this in Amazing Spider-Man 152.

The end of the story in GS SM #2 is set at the Empire State Building and Ross gives the reader a few panels of the ESB, just to make sure we aren't sleeping.  But the thing I did not notice before was the little details he put into the ESB lobby.  I do feel he took a lot of liberties on the elevators, but he makes them ornate, like the actual ESB elevators, which I think is neat.

I believe he also penciled some early MTU books. Did you ever check those out? 

[Spider-Variant]

On 5/2/2024 at 1:39 PM, mr_highgrade said:

I believe he also penciled some early MTU books. Did you ever check those out? 

I did glance at a few but nothing jumped out.  He was very specific at the setting at the beginning of MTU 3, but I couldn't find a match anywhere to what Ross drew.  The Iron Man issue may have something l, I'll have to revisit it.  

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Even though I had the originals, owned most of the stories in Marvel Tales, bought the Marvel Essentials with these gems, and have all but one of the Marvel Masterworks, I decided I need these classics in yet another format, lol.

$80 for 880 pages of Ross Andru Spidey goodness (there are two Annuals in here that Ross didn't draw, plus the two Sal Buscema issues and the Gil Kane issue of ASM).

My only nits are that the forwards by Gerry Conway are copies from the Marvel Masterworks.  Also, in the Extras section in the very end of the book, I don't need to see the almost identical Marvel Tales cover for these stories.  Give me some more artwork (there is some of this), or something I haven't seen (like the Ross Andru calendar months).

Giving this guy an A.

 

Edited yesterday at 01:45 PM by Spider-Variant

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Back Cover

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On 5/23/2024 at 8:46 AM, Spider-Variant said:

Back Cover

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Ok, I find this a little fascinating (I'm probably the only one on that the planet though, lol).

For the first time in 47 years, I realize that Dave Cockrum drew Madison Square Garden on the cover of Peter Parker Spectacular Spider-Man #4.  The thing I find odd that it appears he drew the scaffolding on the front of the building behind MSG, like our great friend Ross Andru did on the Amazing Spider-Man 167 splash.  This scaffolding should not have still been there when either man drew their scenes (cover dates of Mar. and Apr. 1977 for Dave and Ross, respectively).

Dave would have drawn his cover about a month before Ross did the splash.  Hmmm, wonder if Ross borrowed the concept of featuring MSG from Dave.

Just look at the amazing detail Ross puts in.