Popular Post Mmehdy Posted February 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 18, 2022 (edited) The Silver Age GIANT book of Amazing Spider man 1-19, Ann #1 and AF 15 arrived at my door via Amazon 20 bucks off with free delivery last night. This in my opinion is greatest SA reprint book every created. It respects the the comic book and is not a hyped up digitalized color enhanced previous Marvel reprints this is the real deal, the size, the feeling is classic. Just looking at those house ads blown up reminds of the days I waited at the newstand. As a 60 year collector, this book respects just than and gets my highest recommendation....there are some great video reviews out there which give you a idea how great really, but until you have it in your hands and see it for yourself.....thumbs wayyy up Edited February 18, 2022 by Mmehdy Dave2739, sledgehammer, Unca Ben and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisco37 Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 I’ve heard it’s incredible and was told I should purchase one. Price is pretty steep and I have a different priority currently. Hoping I might be able to pick one up someday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave2739 Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 The comics that were scanned for that volume all came from the personal collection of the fellow that owns the LCS I frequent. The book is already incredibly cool, but it just adds another level of interest for me knowing that I'm looking at my buddy's Spidey collection. They also scanned his early FF's and Avengers so we may have future volumes heading our way if the Spidey volume sells well, which I am suspecting it will. alexanderjk, silverseeker, ThothAmon and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aman619 Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 did they have to sacrifice his comics to scan them properly? or just crush the spine a bit? or did he not care because they bought his comics first? just curious about the process.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickSp Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 It’s a fantastic product, well worth the pick up in my opinion. They are due to do the same format for FF, Avengers and Cap so that’s some heavy duty book space required! Mmehdy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmehdy Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 I think it will be Avengers 1st, then FF, and then Cap......they are limited to 5K copies editions also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbalroman Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 I got this as a gift and it really is super nice. This ASM book does have me thinking I’ll pick up the others they put it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave2739 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 On 2/19/2022 at 8:13 PM, Aman619 said: did they have to sacrifice his comics to scan them properly? or just crush the spine a bit? or did he not care because they bought his comics first? just curious about the process.. These are all high-grade GCG graded copies that were carefully cracked, photographed and then CGC re-slabbed them. CGC was involved in the process, from what I understand and no damage was done to the original books. ThothAmon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelbo Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Is this what we're talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickSp Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 On 2/22/2022 at 7:31 AM, grendelbo said: Is this what we're talking about? Yeah. There is the £150 edition plus a very expensive version with a leather bound cover. (But interiors are the same) grendelbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexgross.com Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 On 2/17/2022 at 4:17 PM, Mmehdy said: The Silver Age GIANT book of Amazing Spider man 1-19, Ann #1 and AF 15 arrived at my door via Amazon 20 bucks off with free delivery last night. This in my opinion is greatest SA reprint book every created. It respects the the comic book and is not a hyped up digitalized color enhanced previous Marvel reprints this is the real deal, the size, the feeling is classic. Just looking at those house ads blown up reminds of the days I waited at the newstand. As a 60 year collector, this book respects just than and gets my highest recommendation....there are some great video reviews out there which give you a idea how great really, but until you have it in your hands and see it for yourself.....thumbs wayyy up pics would be nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aman619 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 On 2/21/2022 at 7:49 PM, Dave2739 said: These are all high-grade GCG graded copies that were carefully cracked, photographed and then CGC re-slabbed them. CGC was involved in the process, from what I understand and no damage was done to the original books. wow. Im sure there are apparatus that can scan pages while holding the rest in such a way so as not to damage the spine etc. but, with every page of every copy being identical, dot for dot, line for line. dont know why they needed slabbed high grade copies. But I suppose they'd hate to use cheaper books only to discover a loogie on an interior page and have to get a different copy later. Retouching is good for that. The purpose is to reproduce the comics art etc, and not be the perfect scans of a particular copy. Must be cool for your friend to have a few copies of the book though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cbalroman Posted February 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 22, 2022 Heres some pics of the book... The box it shipped in was neat so I kept it....(1st few pics) Last pic has a DC omnibus next to the Taschen to get an idea of size of this thing. It really is massive. BDubs, alexgross.com, silverseeker and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdonaldblake1 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Wow! Very nice Apparently the founder of Taschen books collected marvels as a teen and I think the story goes he sold his collection and used the funds to start Taschen books. He would be a multi millionaire now and I believe he is still actively collecting comics ThothAmon, Albert Thurgood, piper and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mmehdy Posted February 24, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) The debate on this book is that the Omnibus edition...which currently is about $125 and contains all the Ditko work and currently $112 on Amazon has brighter colors than the Taschen which today is $180.00. He is my take since I own both of them and the prior marvel masterworks editions. The weakest is the oldest, I do prefer the Omnibus over the Masteworks, they are bigger in size as well as brighter color wise. However, the Taschen edition blows away the Omnibus editions because of the much greater size, you really get a feel for the artwork, almost as if you own it yourself and you notice things you never have before story wise, art wise and you really become impressed about how masterful this great comic book was and still is today. Yes, this is not the digital hyped up color future never looked better, because it never looked that way to begin with redo. I think it looks better and more real and puts me back to the time when I would wait for Wed or Friday to see what new great adventures would fill my life for 12 cents. Sometimes real is better than a redo. In sum, This was a very brave and bold move by Taschen and the gamble payed off big time......my highest possible recommendation to fellow board members. Edited February 24, 2022 by Mmehdy Larryw7, Unca Ben, ThothAmon and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 (edited) "The collaboration with Marvel will be a decade long with many books on the horizon, including 2nd volumes of our favorite super hero stories. Next up for 2022, we will be publishing Avengers. Vol. 1. 1963–1965 and Fantastic Four. Vol. 1. 1961–1963 with the next titles to be announced in the coming months." TASCHEN and Marvel Announce ‘The Marvel Comics Library’ Edited February 25, 2022 by Flex Mentallo Dave2739 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 (edited) Edited February 25, 2022 by Flex Mentallo Mmehdy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmehdy Posted February 28, 2022 Author Share Posted February 28, 2022 super video, but again you have to see and read this great book in person to really understand how great it is, looking at the pages more blown up gave me additional detail and really brought home how great and amazing these books were. Dave2739 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnH19 Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Taschen also corrected the registration on each panel, as required, so that all of the coloring remained within the lines. It truly is a fabulous production. What number did all of you owners receive? My copy is #1075. Mmehdy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidtere Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 The book is absolutely gorgeous...everything an (early) Marvel Spidey fan would want. Mmehdy hit it right on the nose with the description. I've been picking up Taschen books for some time now and they outdid themselves with this one. Much past the 2nd editions of any of the titles and my interest may wane, but for now, I plan on getting the next volumes. My copy is # 2,137 Mmehdy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
