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Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club
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@Get Marwood & I, check this out.

My amazing daughter tracked down all my Ross Andru real-life reference posts, copied all the pictures, painstakingly organized them by issue number, and published a single copy of a book.  Simply spectacular.  

And my equally as awesome wife got me this t-shirt and a spider-man sweat shirt as well.  Loved them both. 

 

 

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On 12/28/2022 at 8:18 PM, Spider-Variant said:

@Get Marwood & I, check this out.

My amazing daughter tracked down all my Ross Andru real-life reference posts, copied all the pictures, painstakingly organized them by issue number, and published a single copy of a book.  Simply spectacular.  

And my equally as awesome wife got me this t-shirt and a spider-man sweat shirt as well.  Loved them both. 

 

 

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That's so fricking awesome!  :whee:

 

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On 12/28/2022 at 9:18 PM, Spider-Variant said:

@Get Marwood & I, check this out.

My amazing daughter tracked down all my Ross Andru real-life reference posts, copied all the pictures, painstakingly organized them by issue number, and published a single copy of a book.  Simply spectacular.  

And my equally as awesome wife got me this t-shirt and a spider-man sweat shirt as well.  Loved them both. 

 

 

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On 12/29/2022 at 10:18 AM, Spider-Variant said:

@Get Marwood & I, check this out.

My amazing daughter tracked down all my Ross Andru real-life reference posts, copied all the pictures, painstakingly organized them by issue number, and published a single copy of a book.  Simply spectacular.  

And my equally as awesome wife got me this t-shirt and a spider-man sweat shirt as well.  Loved them both. 

 

 

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On 12/29/2022 at 2:18 AM, Spider-Variant said:

@Get Marwood & I, check this out.

My amazing daughter tracked down all my Ross Andru real-life reference posts, copied all the pictures, painstakingly organized them by issue number, and published a single copy of a book.  Simply spectacular.  

And my equally as awesome wife got me this t-shirt and a spider-man sweat shirt as well.  Loved them both. 

 

 

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That is amazing. Your daughter is AMAZING! How many times have I suggested you publish a book, and she goes and does it for you! lol

Treasure that, my friend.

And a Spidey shirt buying wife too. You are blessed, Reggie. Blessed <3

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On 12/29/2022 at 4:10 AM, Get Marwood &amp; I said:

That is amazing. Your daughter is AMAZING! How many times have I suggested you publish a book, and she goes and does it for you! lol

Treasure that, my friend.

And a Spidey shirt buying wife too. You are blessed, Reggie. Blessed <3

Thanks Steve and all, appreciate the kind words.

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On 12/28/2022 at 6:18 PM, Spider-Variant said:

@Get Marwood & I, check this out.

My amazing daughter tracked down all my Ross Andru real-life reference posts, copied all the pictures, painstakingly organized them by issue number, and published a single copy of a book.  Simply spectacular.  

And my equally as awesome wife got me this t-shirt and a spider-man sweat shirt as well.  Loved them both. 

 

 

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This forum needs a "WOW" emoji for posts like this.  VERY cool!  

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On 12/29/2022 at 4:10 PM, Spider-Variant said:

Thanks Steve and all, appreciate the kind words.

Wish I had a daughter who arranged Spidey surprises. 

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After identifying over 125 real life references that Ross Andru drew into his run on the Amazing Spider-Man, Giant-Size Spider-Man, and Superman vs the Amazing Spider-Man, I ran out of new material. Every now and again though, I like to take another look at locations I had unearthed in the past to see if I can discover something new.
I have posted about the splash page to Amazing Spider-Man 156 before and highlighted Ross’s attention to detail. I wanted to dig more into the power plant he drew. This issue would have been on the stands in Feb. 1976 and Ross would have drawn it toward the end of 1975.
The power plant Ross used for his splash was the Waterside Generating Plant (later Con Edison), constructed between 1896 and 1900. It was the first generating facility in New York City to produce alternating current. Ross first depicts this power plant (the story called it the 41st Street Power Plant) in Amazing Spider-Man 152, as Spidey searches for the Shocker.
I was lucky enough to find photos of the plant from 1975. I love the detail Ross puts into his drawing, from the slope of the roof to the large window on the far left side. The plant was divided into two separate buildings, which Ross also drew.
Ross was a man dedicated to his craft, going the extra mile to depict NYC and his effort was greatly underappreciated, IMHO.
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On 4/4/2022 at 8:19 PM, Lee B. said:

Hi Reggie and all!  I thought you might enjoy an advertisement I found, from the December 19, 1975 issue of The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom. 

First, a little background: I obsessively collect images of old comic art for-sale ads for a searchable online database I created called ComicArtAds.  You can search original art ads by comic artist and comic title.  Right now the database includes about 40 results is you search Ross Andru. 

In the course of my searching for old art ads in The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom, I came across the ad below.  I have seen a lot, but this ad really caused some angst for me.  My first comic book ever was Amazing Spider-Man #140, and to see so many pages from that book and others for sale for $35/each made me sad.  But it also made me hopeful that those pages are probably out in the wild somewhere, waiting for me to find them.  Enjoy, and take care!  Best regards, Lee

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Hey @Lee B., check out this letter (dated August 22, 1975) from Ross Andru to Jerry Thingval (the actor and comic art collector, as we had discussed earlier in this thread somewhere.)

I find it very interesting because of the way Ross shared the original art during his run on Amazing Spider-Man, with him taking 100% of every other issue and Gerry Conway (who Ross misspelled Jerry) and Frank Giacoia (and later Mike Esposito) alternating on the issues Ross didn't receive back from Marvel.  As Ross explains, Gerry Conway got 100% of the art from Amazing Spider-Man 149.  Interesting..... Wonder if he still has it?

The other interesting thing is that Ross talks about not knowing where his art will be available.  But I think we now know, in the December 19, 1975 issue of The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom, which Lee shared with us earlier.  I like when things come full circle.

 

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On 1/11/2023 at 7:20 PM, Lee B. said:

Wow, what a fascinating letter, thanks for sharing!  I can't believe Gerry Conway received complete books of art the way Ross described it.  The next time I see Gerry at a show, I'll have to ask him.

I've never seen an art page offered from ASM 149.  I wonder if he still has it all.  Probably a nice value now.

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On 1/12/2023 at 1:10 AM, Spider-Variant said:

Check out this letter (dated August 22, 1975) from Ross Andru to Jerry Thingval (the actor and comic art collector, as we had discussed earlier in this thread somewhere.)

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That's a thing of beauty. I love the mistyping of advdertising :cloud9:

Where did you find that, Reggie?

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