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[Hawkman23]

I love ASM 13, possibly my favorite, and that is a kill raw copy

[trmoore54]

Your comics are beautiful, Bruno. I need to seek your advice about scanning. ! The colors are so vibrant!

I clearly need to re-scan parts of my collection. Here's another later Ditko Spidey.

And this image will speak for itself I think.

 

 

Thanks!

Since I'm not a photoshop freak using the free picture editor that comes with Picasa I have found that if you increase the "Highlight" under the Tuning section just a little (not too much) then you can get the colors to represent themselves closer to the real thing.

 

Cool note from Mr. Ditko!

[trmoore54]

Thanks, Bruno. I've been using the same soft-ware which came with my scanner 10 years ago. ! I am not the most knowledgeable, when it comes to computers. I recently found Compupic, and am playing with that. I have gotten better though. This next Spidey was the 1st comic I scanned. !

 

It's pretty crappy.

 

What grade on the ASM 1? Looks like a nice one!

[Hawkman23]

agreed...nice copy, courious what it would grade.

[Spiderphill]

from the scan it looks like it should be 8.0 easily

[Hulkfan]

Thanks, folks. I have always felt it was a VF. I know grading is more numerical now, but I am content with VF.

I will eventually get it from the safety deposit box in my bank, and re-scan it.

[Spiderphill]

Thanks, folks. I have always felt it was a VF. I know grading is more numerical now, but I am content with VF.

I will eventually get it from the safety deposit box in my bank, and re-scan it.

Very nice raw comics you have, how long ago did you make all of these purchases?

[Hawkman23]

Yes, VF is very fair for this copy

[Hulkfan]

Many of the comics in my collection, were purchased off the spinner rack, many, many moons ago, ASMguyyy. I have upgraded some comics, from time-to-time, as finances allowed, but truly not in the past 15 years or so.

I have picked-up some EC's on eBay within the past decade, but haven't posted those yet, as I haven't found an EC thread. (I haven't looked through-out this site) As I already have most Silver Marvels, I now collect interesting covers from random comics. It was a big help, that my friend Bob, owned Sarges Comics in the nearby town, for 20 years.

[Hawkman23]

did you buy the spiderman 1 off the rack?

[Hulkfan]

Good morning.

The Spidey #1 is an upgrade, Hawkman23. I mentioned in a post that my friend owned a comic shop within miles of my home. The posted Spidey came into his shop years ago. He alerted me to it, and I traded my original off-the-rack F copy, plus some cash, for the copy in the scan.

He resold my original quickly due to the lower price, and I got a nicer copy in the deal. Everyone was happy! !

[Junkdrawer]

Just arrived today!

[Shark]

Just arrived today!

 

Very nice! I'm envious!

[tortoise]

Just arrived today!

 

gorgeous

[Point Five]

And this image will speak for itself I think.

That is unique. One of the coolest things posted here. And glad you saved the envelope. Well done!

 

 

[Hawkman23]

Nice letter, and Nice number 1

[Hulkfan]

Sweet lookin' Spidey #1, Junk.

Thanks, Hawk, and Point. I've shown my note to a few folks in our hobby (Bashara Malouf, Brad Savage, and a couple others, who were surprised to see an actual response from Mr. Ditko.

There's a Ditko thread in General Comics, which has already fallen to page 2, where I posted the note, with this commentary.

"I wrote to Mr Ditko in 1991, when I was writing comics for Revolutionary. My editor gave me his address in NYC, as they were negotiating with him to do some art for a book. He warned me not to expect a reply.

I wrote to him none- the-less. Several weeks passed with no reply. Then one Saturday morning, my SAS envelope returned to me with the enclosed note."

I was surprised the note generated such little interest in that thread, as both Bashara, and Brad said they'd never seen a hand-written note from Mr. Ditko, in all their years of collecting/buying and selling.

[Shark]

Sweet lookin' Spidey #1, Junk.

Thanks, Hawk, and Point. I've shown my note to a few folks in our hobby (Bashara Malouf, Brad Savage, and a couple others, who were surprised to see an actual response from Mr. Ditko.

There's a Ditko thread in General Comics, which has already fallen to page 2, where I posted the note, with this commentary.

"I wrote to Mr Ditko in 1991, when I was writing comics for Revolutionary. My editor gave me his address in NYC, as they were negotiating with him to do some art for a book. He warned me not to expect a reply.

I wrote to him none- the-less. Several weeks passed with no reply. Then one Saturday morning, my SAS envelope returned to me with the enclosed note."

I was surprised the note generated such little interest in that thread, as both Bashara, and Brad said they'd never seen a hand-written note from Mr. Ditko, in all their years of collecting/buying and selling.

 

Look at it this way. You're one of probably only a few people who has a Steve Ditko autograph (even if it is only his first name and not on a comic book)! I think it's great myself! (thumbs u

[Junkdrawer]

What did you ask that go you that reply?

[Hulkfan]

If I understand your question junk, I was requesting that Mr. Ditko sign my copy of Spidey #14.It's a favorite issue, as well as a early Hulk appearance.

 

 

Completely agree, Shark. I honestly thought it would generate more interest in a thread devoted to Ditko, that's all. And it's definitely a great thing to own.