Something About Amazing Spider-Man #320 That You Might Not Have Spotted 2 2

[Lazyboy]

On 10/11/2023 at 5:22 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Not the clearest picture, is it. I would put my money on that being added post production. Find a second example and we're in business Paq. And no slash jokes.

 Clear enough to definitively say it was drawn on post-production.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/18/2023 at 8:31 PM, Lazyboy said:

 Clear enough to definitively say it was drawn on post-production.

I was being kind, Lazyboy. You should try it sometime. 

[Metarog]

Cool discovery Marwood. I’ll be on the lookout now. Thanks for the great info.👍

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/19/2023 at 10:41 PM, Metarog said:

Cool discovery Marwood. I’ll be on the lookout now. Thanks for the great info.👍

 

[FlyingDonut]

On 10/7/2023 at 8:22 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Hello 

It's always nice to discover something new when you're looking for something else, isn't it. 

The other day, while looking for Mark Jewelers copies, I spotted something about Spidey #320 that I hadn't spotted before. I'm wondering how many of you might not have spotted it either, despite it being 34 years old and sitting in plain sight. 

The GCD has the two known versions - newsstand and direct....

...as does Pete's place, the home of Spidey Completists worldwide (one of which I used to be):

 

Here are my two copies:

 

Anyway, I was looking for a jewelers copy the other week and found that eBay USA had 205 results for "Amazing Spider-Man 320":

 

Of those 205 listings, 168 (83%) where the Direct Edition:

35 of them (17%) were the Newsstand:

None of them, however, were this Spidey head UPC version:

On eBay UK, 3 of the 12 copies for sale, and 3 of the 8 sold were this hitherto (by me) unspotted version:

 

So, none out of 205 listings in the US, but 6 out of 20 in the UK.

Hmmm....

I ordered a Spidey head UPC copy so I could do a full comparison but the seller sent me the Paladin UPC copy (I suspect on purpose, as I ordered one of each type which likely brought it to their attention). From the eBay images I've seen, the only difference besides the Spidey and Paladin UPCs are a tiny production related line under the word 'LATE' which appears on all the Spidey head UPC copies:

The indicias appear the same - no indication of a second printing or anything like that.

I've ordered some more copies and will do a full review when they arrive, but in the meantime I thought some of you might find this interesting if, as I suspect, it has passed you by too.

Oh FFS. Another stupid book to find.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/30/2023 at 6:28 PM, FlyingDonut said:

Oh FFS. Another stupid book to find.

I have a very particular set of skills, skills that I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

I will look for them. I will find them. And I will bring them to collector's attention 34 years after they were printed. 

[FlyingDonut]

On 10/11/2023 at 3:40 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I will look for them. I will find them. And I will post about them here 

[FlyingDonut]

[FlyingDonut]

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/30/2023 at 6:35 PM, FlyingDonut said:

 

On 10/30/2023 at 6:38 PM, FlyingDonut said:

 

On 10/30/2023 at 6:38 PM, FlyingDonut said:

What am I missing FD? It's been a long day, but I can't see anything different about those books? 

[FlyingDonut]

White Spidey heads

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/30/2023 at 6:55 PM, FlyingDonut said:

White Spidey heads

Yes. They've always had them, they are the Direct Edition versions we all know?

[Get Marwood & I]

The Spidey head I found for ASM #320 was a previous unknown:

The books you've posted are all knowns?

What am I missing @FlyingDonut?

[Yorick]

On 10/15/2023 at 12:53 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Curious, is Spidey "zapping some zits" on page 1 there? 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/30/2023 at 9:40 PM, Yorick said:

Curious, is Spidey "zapping some zits" on page 1 there? 

Good spot!

 

 

[BigLeagueCHEW]

On 10/30/2023 at 11:58 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

The Spidey head I found for ASM #320 was a previous unknown:

The books you've posted are all knowns?

What am I missing @FlyingDonut?

 

Looks like an ole mark down at the LCS. Wonder if it was half price 

[Carl Elvis]

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/31/2023 at 7:58 PM, BigLeagueCHEW said:

 

Looks like an ole mark down at the LCS. Wonder if it was half price 

Yes, that's the eBay copy Paq posted - quite clearly a marker pen line when you zoom in (hence my tongue in cheek response to 'go find another').

On 11/1/2023 at 1:08 AM, Carl Elvis said:

Indeed.

I'm not sure what Donuts intervention was all about - it's not like him to misread something of a variant nature - but to end the thread on a clear note, not one person has told me that they knew of the existence of the second Spidey head ASM #320 Direct Edition before I posted about it. Indeed, if it was news to Metarog, I know it's a good find!

Happy hunting, all you Spidey completists out there