Ross Andru's Amazing Spider-Man Club 9 9

[Get Marwood & I]

25 minutes ago, MattTheDuck said:

I had a letter published in Thor.  

Is that it in your avatar? 

[MattTheDuck]

1 minute ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Is that it in your avatar? 

I should figure out how to photoshop that in there.

[MattTheDuck]

7 minutes ago, Spider-Variant said:

Oh neat, what issue?  Unless you want to remain anonymous, of course...

 

#238.  I only have 3 copies  if you can imagine.

 

[Spider-Variant]

20 minutes ago, MattTheDuck said:

#238.  I only have 3 copies  if you can imagine.

 

May the spirit of Marvel be with you!  

Edited July 4, 2021 by Spider-Variant

[ADAMANTIUM]

7 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Great time wasn't it, great time... 

17,000 posts on the button, it's a great time to be ALIVE!!  

 

[Get Marwood & I]

[Spider-Variant]

Just now, Get Marwood & I said:

All Hail the Mighty Get Marwood!   We're not worthy, we're not worthy.....

[Get Marwood & I]

Just now, Spider-Variant said:

All Hail the Mighty Get Marwood!   We're not worthy, we're not worthy.....

Bollocks to Marwood, I did all the good stuff 

[ADAMANTIUM]

3 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

5 minutes ago, Spider-Variant said:

All Hail the Mighty Get Marwood!   We're not worthy, we're not worthy.....

Bollocks to Marwood, I did all the good stuff 

Hail the all seeing "I"  

[Get Marwood & I]

5 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Hail the all seeing "I"  

Hold on, that was actually funny

 

Who are you, and what have you done with Adamantium? 

Spoiler

 

 

[ADAMANTIUM]

5 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Hold on, that was actually funny

 

Who are you, and what have you done with Adamantium? 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

 got a good nights sleep, I did, well my best people cause I'm off to do my rounds  

[FoggyNelson]

On 7/4/2021 at 12:57 PM, MattTheDuck said:

I had a letter published in Thor.  

Post it ‼️‼️‼️

[Spider-Variant]

The mysterious case of the Amazing Spider-Man 139 original art board.

If you look at every original art board from ASM 139, you will notice something interesting (well, to my easily intrigued butt).  Ross wrote issue 136 in pencil on every one.  Oh that's easy, he just messed up the 139 and 136.  Well, except he also put MAY on everyone too.  ASM 139 had a cover date of Dec. 1974, which means the on the stands date was around 9/10/74, which means the schedule date should have been August, not MAY.  But for ASM 136, with a cover date of Sept. 1974 and an on the stands date of 6/74, a May schedule date would have made perfect sense.  So much so, that the original artwork for ASM 136 has the May schedule date on it (I actually have seem 3 pages, not just one, as this stated before the edit.).

So why the hell was Ross penciling ASM 136 and MAY on the artboards for ASM 139.  Obviously ASM 136 would have shipped 3 months earlier.    Did he just pencil too many artboards for ASM 136 and used them on ASM 139.  I even wondered if the story in ASM 139 was originally intended to start after the end of ASM 135, but there would be too many things that wouldn't line up, like why would Peter be looking for an apartment (if ASM 136, 137, 138 all didn't happen or were going to happen later).

I don't know and no one probably ever will.    Just a cool chance to show Ross's Grizzly though.

 

Edited July 7, 2021 by Spider-Variant
Updated information.

[MattTheDuck]

Your wish is my command.  Within reason.

Unfortunately, runs bottom left to upper right, so here's the whole letters page!

 

[Spider-Variant]

4 minutes ago, MattTheDuck said:

Your wish is my command.  Within reason.

Unfortunately, runs bottom left to upper right, so here's the whole letters page!

 

“Excelsior!”

[MattTheDuck]

No specific mention of a No-Prize, but I think they were automatic with a published letter.  My high school friends and I occasionally referred to ourselves as a "scurvy lot of swarthy brigands" quite often thereafter, although only two of us could actually be thought of as "swarthy."  Definitely all looked like we had scurvy.

This issue is now so valuable, Gocollect has it only as "FMV Pending."  There's a rumor I'm going to be invited to a Signature Series event.

Edited July 5, 2021 by MattTheDuck

[ADAMANTIUM]

24 minutes ago, Spider-Variant said:

30 minutes ago, MattTheDuck said:

Your wish is my command.  Within reason.

Unfortunately, runs bottom left to upper right, so here's the whole letters page!

 

Expand  

“Excelsior!”

@MattTheDuck I'll admit that is not the "e-Jack-word" that stood out to me

But a...las!

Matt! That's AWESOME! Excelsior! 

 

[bababooey]

16 hours ago, Spider-Variant said:

The mysterious case of the Amazing Spider-Man 139 original art board.

If you look at every original art board from ASM 139, you will notice something interesting (well, to my easily intrigued butt).  Ross wrote issue 136 in pencil on every one.  Oh that's easy, he just messed up the 139 and 136.  Well, except he also put MAY on everyone too.  ASM 139 had a cover date of Dec. 1974, which means the on the stands date was around 9/10/74, which means the schedule date should have been August, not MAY.  But for ASM 136, with a cover date of Sept. 1974 and an on the stands date of 6/74, a May schedule date would have made perfect sense.  So much so, that the original artwork for ASM 136 has the May schedule date on it (I have only seen one page from ASM 136 though).

So why the hell was Ross penciling ASM 136 and MAY on the artboards for ASM 139.  Obviously ASM 136 would have shipped 3 months earlier.    Did he just pencil too many artboards for ASM 136 and used them on ASM 139.  I even wondered if the story in ASM 139 was originally intended to start after the end of ASM 135, but there would be too many things that wouldn't line up, like why would Peter be looking for an apartment (if ASM 136, 137, 138 all didn't happen or were going to happen later).

I don't know and no one probably ever will.    Just a cool chance to show Ross's Grizzly though.

 

Didn't Marvel go through a period of time when they wanted artists to create their two page double page spreads on one to save money?   It's described in this HA auction Listing .  

Maybe during this era Marvel was stamping 'amazing spiderman' AND putting the issue number on the blank art boards.  It wouldn't be that surprising for these artists to just use their supplies and not use it in order. 

Edited July 6, 2021 by bababooey

[Spider-Variant]

2 hours ago, bababooey said:

Didn't Marvel go through a period of time when they wanted artists to create their two page double page spreads on one to save money?   It's described in this HA auction Listing .  

Maybe during this era Marvel was stamping 'amazing spiderman' AND putting the issue number on the blank art boards.  It wouldn't be that surprising for these artists to just use their supplies and not use it in order. 

Yes, this issue actual has one of those pages.    We discussed the use of these a while back in this thread.

That's definitely a possibility.  The penciled in issue number and MAY all seem like Ross's though, at least to me.

 

[Spider-Variant]

Mike Esposito's daughter just shared this 1957 photo of her and Ross on Facebook .  This is definitely my favorite Ross picture ever and once again illustrates how there is no way you would recognize Ross based on the different photos out there of him.  Man was a chameleon.