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Amazing Spider-Man Collecting Thread!
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On 5/6/2023 at 7:02 PM, AwesomeSauce said:

What's ASM #39 without ASM #40? Picked this one up yesterday. Am very happy with it!!

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🎶You can’t have one without the other.🎶

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Here are my 39 and 40. These two books made quite an impression on eight year old me when I bought second hand copies in 1967, shortly after discovering Marvel. I had been reading DC for a couple of years and they sure never did stories like this.

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The intricacy of Spidey's "Norman Osborn Green Goblin problem" is pretty amazing and to me shows that Marvel understood it could attract a wider audience age-wise than the one most people probably thought would like "funny books."  Once they knew each other's secret identity, Spidey now had to do more than just beat the Goblin in a fight.  He now felt like he couldn't just win the fight and send the Goblin to jail - this was his best friend's father.  He also now had to figure out some way to prevent Osborn from revealing that Peter Parker was Spider-Man. The Goblin also now had a larger and more personal target to try to get to Peter - Aunt May and ultimately of course Gwen Stacy.  All a definite advantage for the bad guy.  This is a very complicated situation to navigate for a writer and good on Marvel for not shying away from telling it.

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On 5/11/2023 at 7:46 PM, 1950's war comics said:

Yellow DD early crossover !

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In 1967’s Marvel Tales #11 this was the first Ditko era story I ever read. This was also my introduction to DD’s yellow costume.

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On 5/10/2023 at 6:02 PM, AwesomeSauce said:

Been looking for a good mid-grade copy of the 1st Romita ASM Annual for awhile now. This one fit the bill perfectly!

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This was the first comic book that I bought with my own money. Six heroes, one semi-hero/villain, and one villain - how could I go wrong?

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On 5/13/2023 at 9:34 AM, Jordysnordy said:

Agreed! Notice how CGC has updated the notes for this issue.

 

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Yours must've been graded at the very start of the second gen holders, being Spring of 2004. I had my copy graded in Spring of 2011 and it has more content information (sorry for the semi-blurry pic).

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