Amazing Spider-Man Collecting Thread! 37 37

[comicquant]

2 minutes ago, Philreal said:

I just picked this up from Straw-Man and it's on it's way now. I'll have a back cover picture once I receive it, but was wondering if you folks had a thought on the grade?(I know wrong forum) I'm looking to send it to CGC and am hoping for a least a 6.0?

Really nice copy!  I bet that comes back higher than a 6.0.

[Straw-Man]

50 is blindingly beautiful!

Edited February 28, 2018 by Straw-Man

[Wall-Crawler]

Latest addition...Cross Post...Run getting closer...

 

[Philreal]

1 minute ago, Wall-Crawler said:

Latest addition...Cross Post...Run getting closer...

 

LOOKS UNDER-GRADED IMO. IS CGC GETTING TIGHTER LATELY OR AM I JUST IMAGINING IT?

[Sweet Lou 14]

2 hours ago, Philreal said:

 !!! pictures please!

Right before I bought it, someone had posted a beautiful 8.0 copy to this thread.  I honestly thought if I posted my 9.0 that would make me the world's biggest dink.

With all due respect to that gorgeous 8.0 ... since you asked, here's mine.

 

 

 

[Philreal]

1 minute ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Right before I bought it, someone had posted a beautiful 8.0 copy to this thread.  I honestly thought if I posted my 9.0 that would make me the world's biggest dink.

With all due respect to that gorgeous 8.0 ... since you asked, here's mine.

 

 

 

[comicquant]

15 minutes ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Right before I bought it, someone had posted a beautiful 8.0 copy to this thread.  I honestly thought if I posted my 9.0 that would make me the world's biggest dink.

With all due respect to that gorgeous 8.0 ... since you asked, here's mine.

 

 

 

It doesn't get any better than that!  Beautiful book!

[Sweet Lou 14]

1 hour ago, comicquant said:

That 9.0 #4 is incredible!  My goal is 9.2 for issues #16 - #50 but the #50 is my favorite Spidey cover (And probably SA cover) so the 9.4 was calling to me.

Thank you very much.  It would be great to compare notes with you as we go along.  I've got my hands full working on runs of all the major Marvel titles ... in the case of ASM, I need 11 issues to say I have #26-151 in 9.4, with the exception of that 9.2 of #50.  Among the first 25 issues, it's been a bit of a mix, targeting 9.4 where that feels affordable (always a relative term!) and 9.0 otherwise.  For #1 I am trying to figure out if I should go for 6.0, 7.0, or 8.0.

[DST]

27 minutes ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Right before I bought it, someone had posted a beautiful 8.0 copy to this thread.  I honestly thought if I posted my 9.0 that would make me the world's biggest dink.

With all due respect to that gorgeous 8.0 ... since you asked, here's mine.

 

 

 

Now that is truly special...

Edited February 28, 2018 by DST

[Sweet Lou 14]

1 hour ago, Philreal said:

LOOKS UNDER-GRADED IMO. IS CGC GETTING TIGHTER LATELY OR AM I JUST IMAGINING IT?

I know, right?  Unless the back cover is a complete crime scene, I can't see where this book gets a 5.5 from this scan.

[Wall-Crawler]

51 minutes ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

I know, right?  Unless the back cover is a complete crime scene, I can't see where this book gets a 5.5 from this scan.

I will scan the back cover if anyone wants to see but it does NOT look like a crime scene At ALL.  Here are the notes.

 

 

[Sweet Lou 14]

6 minutes ago, Wall-Crawler said:

I will scan the back cover if anyone wants to see but it does NOT look like a crime scene At ALL.  Here are the notes.

 

 

Interesting.  They seem to be hammering the light stains (which are pretty hard to see on the front cover) and perhaps the tear on the back cover.

[Wall-Crawler]

29 minutes ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Interesting.  They seem to be hammering the light stains (which are pretty hard to see on the front cover) and perhaps the tear on the back cover.

No access to the scanner I usually use to scan my books at the moment but here are some pics...Can't really make out too clearly the small tear on back though.

 

Edited February 28, 2018 by Wall-Crawler

[Sweet Lou 14]

^^^ You'd have to tell us what you see with the book in hand, but from the scans whatever stains there might be are extremely hard to see.

[Wall-Crawler]

7 minutes ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

^^^ You'd have to tell us what you see with the book in hand, but from the scans whatever stains there might be are extremely hard to see.

I can see a few spine ticks and the light crease top of page but given it is on the all white part, would maybe press out but no interest in doing that as it is a personal book.

The only other thing I can see in hand is the 'smudging' of some of the writing in a few spots on the back cover, I don't see any 'traditional' looking stains...I keep looking at it to see if I am missing something else...

[Philreal]

6 hours ago, Wall-Crawler said:

I can see a few spine ticks and the light crease top of page but given it is on the all white part, would maybe press out but no interest in doing that as it is a personal book.

The only other thing I can see in hand is the 'smudging' of some of the writing in a few spots on the back cover, I don't see any 'traditional' looking stains...I keep looking at it to see if I am missing something else...

All in all it presents nicely for the grade, anyone would be happy to own it!

[Straw-Man]

purdy #3!

Edited February 28, 2018 by Straw-Man

[DST]

8 hours ago, Philreal said:

All in all it presents nicely for the grade, anyone would be happy to own it!

My sentiments exactly!

[Jordysnordy]

@DST love your sig line.

[Philreal]

I don't believe I've posted this before and since we are looking at ASM #3 mine happens to be a 5.5 as well. Bought this raw back in the '90's and submitted myself in August of 2009. Was not pressed(I don't think I even knew about pressing then, when did it become more prevalent?)