Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club 9 9

[Spider-Variant]

Both Len Wein and Ross Andru were born this month!

[ganni]

On 6/6/2023 at 1:53 AM, Spider-Variant said:

Both Len Wein and Ross Andru were born this month!

John Buscema/Joe Sinnott?

[Lee B.]

Hi Reggie and all!  Here's a vintage photocopy from ASM #131, courtesy of the Dave Hunt estate.  Sorry again for the huge size.  Enjoy!  Cheers, Lee

[Spider-Variant]

On 6/13/2023 at 10:23 AM, Lee B. said:

Hi Reggie and all!  Here's a vintage photocopy from ASM #131, courtesy of the Dave Hunt estate.  Sorry again for the huge size.  Enjoy!  Cheers, Lee

Lee, you are the man!  No worries about the large size, IMHO.  I love that this thread pulls in all this unseen stuff on the Amazing Ross Andru.  Your contributions have been great!

[Spider-Variant]

Happy Birthday Ross!  Born on this date in 1927.  He left us way too early.

 

 

 

Edited June 15, 2023 by Spider-Variant

[Spider-Variant]

I really like Ross's and Mike's art in this one shot from 1976 for Planned Parenthood.  Amazing Spider-Man vs Prodigy.

I enjoy finding the little notes on the art board.  Here, to the Artist:  Fix Face.    You can see the white out on the guy's nose on the lower right, apparently the needed fix.  Another note to the colorist is to keep the villain green.

And in great Ross tradition of adding a NYC feel to the story, here Spidey is scaling the Pan Am building.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 6/23/2023 at 6:18 PM, Spider-Variant said:

I really like Ross's and Mike's art in this one shot from 1976 for Planned Parenthood.  Amazing Spider-Man vs Prodigy.

I enjoy finding the little notes on the art board.  Here, to the Artist:  Fix Face.    You can see the white out on the guy's nose on the lower right, apparently the needed fix.  Another note to the colorist is to keep the villain green.

And in great Ross tradition of adding a NYC feel to the story, here Spidey is scaling the Pan Am building.

This is such an Andruey pose / look, isn't it: 

That's an actual adjective you know, 'Andruey'.

 

[Spider-Variant]

On 6/23/2023 at 12:18 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

This is such an Andruey pose / look, isn't it: 

That's an actual adjective you know, 'Andruey'.

 

That's the panel that my eyes get drawn too, Steve.  Exactly my feelings, very Andruey!

[Spider-Variant]

Here's another Ross Andru real-life reference I found in Amazing Spider-Man 143.  It's nothing major and I should have spotted it before, as there are not many airports Peter Parker was going to fly into in Paris.

It's a really good match to Charles de Gaulle airport.  As usual, I highlight the matching features.  It fits the detailed work did on this book, as Ross depicts a great JFK earlier in ASM 143 and at the end of ASM 144.

[Spider-Variant]

Hey @cosmic-spider-man, how are things going my friend?

[cosmic-spider-man]

Hey Reggie really nice find on that Airport very Cool and a big thumbs up.  

[Spider-Variant]

On 7/2/2023 at 9:53 AM, cosmic-spider-man said:

Hey Reggie really nice find on that Airport very Cool and a big thumbs up.  

Thanks Terry.  Not many left to find, but I do spot a thing or two now and again.

I do think Ross used some real buildings in ASM 143 and 144, but none that I haven't identified are famous.  In other words, a needle in a haystack to find.

 

[Lee B.]

Hi all!  ComicLink has listed a set of vintage photocopies of partially inked for Amazing Spider-Man #134:

https://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fauctions_first.asp&id=1695993

There aren't a lot of good full-page scans in the listing, but you can see some partial page images.  Or you could win the auction and have it all!  All proceeds go to the family of Dave Hunt.  Cheers, Lee

[Spider-Variant]

On 7/7/2023 at 2:17 PM, Lee B. said:

Hi all!  ComicLink has listed a set of vintage photocopies of partially inked for Amazing Spider-Man #134:

https://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fauctions_first.asp&id=1695993

There aren't a lot of good full-page scans in the listing, but you can see some partial page images.  Or you could win the auction and have it all!  All proceeds go to the family of Dave Hunt.  Cheers, Lee

Thanks Lee, appreciate the heads up.  I love these pencil scans with Dave's inks.  So cool.

[Lee B.]

Happy Monday all!  Here's another vintage photocopy of partially inked art for ASM #131 (page 6).  Cheers, Lee

[Spider-Variant]

On 7/10/2023 at 6:34 AM, Lee B. said:

Happy Monday all!  Here's another vintage photocopy of partially inked art for ASM #131 (page 6).  Cheers, Lee

Thanks Lee.  Really nice work by Dave on that helicopter.  

[Spider-Variant]

I really like this two page sequence from Spider-Man vs the Prodigy.  Really great inking.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 7/13/2023 at 4:39 AM, Spider-Variant said:

I really like this two page sequence from Spider-Man vs the Prodigy.  Really great inking.

 

Is the Prodigy related to the Mindworm do you think, Reggie? 

[mr_highgrade]

Maybe it's his dad. 

[Spider-Variant]

On 7/13/2023 at 3:48 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Is the Prodigy related to the Mindworm do you think, Reggie? 

Well, the way he was sporting your clothes from  the seventies I thought he may have been a relative of yours, lol.