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Marvel Magazines, which ones are collectible and/or hard to find?
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1 hour ago, N e r V said:

I have a soft spot for these 3 from 1968 and 1971 as they were Marvels early try at magazines before they rolled out regularly. If Goodman had not killed Spidey prematurely we might have had a Marvel mag line much earlier. Either way no collection should be missing these three...

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As a Spidey collector, I have the first two. The Savage Tales cover looks gorgeous!

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1 hour ago, piper said:

As a Spidey collector, I have the first two. The Savage Tales cover looks gorgeous!

Savage Tales #1 always had that mystery to it. I picked #2 off the stands in 1973 but it wasn’t until much later I got the higher priced and according to dealers at the time low distribution #1. Now days it’s a steady mover in the magazine field fueled I’m sure by being the first appearance of Man-Thing. Great painted cover of Conan sure helps.

Spectacular Spider-Man Mag #1 is one of my favorite 1960’s Spider-Man covers. I like #2 as well having bought the “redone” version on Spider-Man Annual #9 in 1973 but seeing this ad for it when I bought my first Silver Surfer #1 back issue brings back great memories.

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On 1/16/2021 at 5:48 PM, Brian48 said:

I'm still waiting for Marvel to retcon or reintroduce War Toy into the Marvel Universe or MCU, especially the MCU.  Unknown Worlds of Sci Fi #2, which is gloriously undervalued right now, would absolutely take off. 

 

 

Totally agree with you. 

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22 hours ago, N e r V said:

Savage Tales #1 always had that mystery to it. I picked #2 off the stands in 1973 but it wasn’t until much later I got the higher priced and according to dealers at the time low distribution #1. Now days it’s a steady mover in the magazine field fueled I’m sure by being the first appearance of Man-Thing. Great painted cover of Conan sure helps.

Spectacular Spider-Man Mag #1 is one of my favorite 1960’s Spider-Man covers. I like #2 as well having bought the “redone” version on Spider-Man Annual #9 in 1973 but seeing this ad for it when I bought my first Silver Surfer #1 back issue brings back great memories.

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Marvel UK used it for the 1976 Spider man annual too.

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2 hours ago, batmiesta said:

Marvel UK used it for the 1976 Spider man annual too.

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That's funny. I'm not sure what that UK crew was thinking by using the painted version of the background and shadows, then having someone else (not Romita) do a line drawing of the Spider-Man figure. Why not use the whole painted version, or the whole Romita pencil/ink version instead of that patchwork job they used?

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These two are very rare and should be worth thousands:

 

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All kidding aside, they have lovely covers and I liked the X-Men stories. I can't remember the Elektra one right now.

If Claremont had gotten his way with Sara Grey, #27 would have become a big deal (it is not her first, but it is the only story that gives her some three dimensionaity), but Marvel rejected him, although as Jean Grey's origin story it should mean more too. The Nightcrawler story has an interesting look at the Multiverse before that was a "thing" (ok, it was a "thing"with the publication of What If?)

#28 has some great art, elektra's first solo story, a coupe of first appearances that never went anywhere.

With that said, I guess folks saw those covers and loaded up as there are a fair amount out there. I have always thought they were lovely and own a bunch of each. The market has not yet agreed with me (these are not cheap in 9.6-9.8, but magazines are tough to get in those grades, I think mine are mainly 9.2-9.4

 

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On 1/16/2021 at 4:18 PM, N e r V said:

Savage Tales #1 always had that mystery to it. I picked #2 off the stands in 1973 but it wasn’t until much later I got the higher priced and according to dealers at the time low distribution #1. Now days it’s a steady mover in the magazine field fueled I’m sure by being the first appearance of Man-Thing. Great painted cover of Conan sure helps.

Spectacular Spider-Man Mag #1 is one of my favorite 1960’s Spider-Man covers. I like #2 as well having bought the “redone” version on Spider-Man Annual #9 in 1973 but seeing this ad for it when I bought my first Silver Surfer #1 back issue brings back great memories.

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Ship has sailed for me to pick up Savage Tales 1 in 9.8, and it’s a shame that the 1st appearance of such a meh character drives the value of this book for the most part.

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