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Amazing Spider-Man 301 |
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Amazing Spider-Man 301 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4157574001
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Owner Comments
Signature Series on 12/9/22 by McFarlane. Making signature series bookends completing the 4 issue mega-run! Free to me but $170 to have signature series. Expensive! Another McFarlane Cover, mostly white spine and difficult in grade. 9.6 white pages! Donated to me by my friend the boardie PunisherPunisherPunisher, Chad from Australia! Rock on my brother, one love mate! Oh Ya, good looking out, really needed for the collection and the perfect timing too. We've got the Spider-man ditching Venom, and instead showing off and saying, "I can go on without you!" .... for the cover. Very nice they had to do it twice. That's a wrap and will be back in a while to get this era's Venom fix that they were starving for after such a quick exit. Right? How could it be? They just could wait until issue #315. It is extra explosive then come #316 that was an instant classic on stands!
Complete with the appropriately named, "The Amazing Spider-man Statue" by Sideshow as the back cover picture. I still have the box, and I purchased straight from the Sideshow site. Cost $450 shipped, and it was worth having a statue that is a 1/4 size! Love the construction explosion experience, complete with Goblin bombs if you look closely. Those swinging webs, atop the explosions!
Graders Notes Unavailable.
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Amazing Spider-Man 315 |
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Amazing Spider-Man 315 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3848415001
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Owner Comments
2nd Venom Full App, 1st Cover Venom, to build up to #316 this has the swell to overload!! Venom is already trash talking on the cover, Hydro-Man didn't see it coming. Kind of like Hulk with Rocket on the cover, somehow Hydro has to share his cover. I'm surprised it wasn't a bigger blurb, but with that Venom style and writing, I would argue they hadn't worked out all the kinks yet. Awesome for the time, we've got to get moving quick if Todd Mcfarlane is going to do so many issues in the run. Still a lot of love to collect them all. Hydro was back and after getting his 1st appearance I understand a bit more about the water main. A Near Mint Copy for the WIN. Those are the attributes that kept the late 80's in the 90's alive, was the muscles and over exuberant use of machismo. A bigger stick was a requirement during the over-the-top type of era, it is ongoing though. In the case of the Spider-man, he was the radioactive achievement that climbed up the water "spout" only for the rain and sunshine to then interrupt his daily accolades!
Complete with a back cover picture of a Marvel Card, now that CGC is doing those! We can enjoy more freely to show off these pictorial battles, and a "famous" one of Spider-Man vs Venom!
Grader Notes Unavailable.
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Amazing Spider-Man 316 |
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Amazing Spider-Man 316 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
2083157009
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Owner Comments
2nd Venom Cover and with the battle ensuing, done Classically by the great Todd McFarlane. This book has been a mainstay of the LCS's since it hit the stands, and it quickly gained steam to sit at certain value and regard for years. Glad to have repicked this up at LCS Titan Comics when coming back to comics, and it sat ungraded for years. It came back as an 8.5 and I'm happy with the results! Those classics of yesteryear are still classics in my book, and now we see just how much of an impact on Spidey that Venom causes in strength! The brute force would go unmatched and unchallenged for a few issues. Knowing now that sound affects the symbiote, we got closer to reigning in the power that was instrumental on Spider-man's 1st impression. Seemingly the symbiote had it out for the Spider-man for a lot of issues, only to come face to face knowingly as Eddie Brock, and or, Venom!
Complete with a back cover picture of ASM #312, that love for McFarlane is known worldwide, given to me in the boards raffle by Motor City Rob! Given time that entire run will be collectable drool. Ha-ha! I've eyed a few myself, and now I get to read one for a change!
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Amazing Spider-Man 344 |
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Amazing Spider-Man 344 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
2062105002
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Owner Comments
Newsstand 9.8 1st full appearance of "Cardiac" (Elias Wirtham) 1st Cletus Kasady (Carnage!) I got this off the boards from boardie "SHAGS13". I even gave him a raw VF- ASM #298 for $20 off this slab, end result $145! Awesome, because I don't often see a Newsstand of this issue! If you can find it in high grade, it may be worth the funds; although, I have a harder time speculating. I have had the correct timing in some cases. At the time coming off McFarlane, the art was in a bit of transition, and it took some type of assurance that quality wouldn't go down before people would buy. Steady art and plot built that assurance, mostly by Bagley after the McFarlane run. Bagley could do no wrong, imo, and bolstered my anticipation. This Erik Larson and Randy Emberlin was a bit jolty in the transition. Seems at the time I thought they might be trying to correct Spidey a bit to pre-McFarlane days. I realize that could be subjective, it has a decent flow in a way, in my opinion. All of the above made out alright, and still, these are collectable comics nearly 30 to 40 years later!
Complete with Erik Larsons try at the Punisher and Spidey as a back cover picture. Issue #330 given to me as an "extra" in the board raffle January 2023 by Motor City Rob the boardie. Leading up to this issue of #344 Larson had his irons in the fire with several other properties but was in between Bagley and McFarlane for comparison! Just to get a feel for the books that became interwoven for story and detail!
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Amazing Spider-Man 345 |
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Amazing Spider-Man 345 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3732915025
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Owner Comments
9.8 Carnage! Venom breaks Eddie Brock out of prison, but part of the symbiote stays behind to keep the other prisoner Cletus Kasady company! An offspring of sorts, this will be interesting, can the world just get along? In preparation for the upcoming major onslaught, they've got the Boomerang. I'm a little surprised, but I see why I didn't pick up this issue from the stands. Something was off about it. Due to the blocky art that tried its best to look fluid, but it isn't, so I looked at it and passed. As a kid I loved yellow covers, but those reds were cool too. Given the explosiveness of #300, it was nice that they went back to the well of a lot of red. These Spidey's were getting a bit wonky, and the artists had a hard time in the juxtaposition that McFarlane took it too. It WAS well received though, eventually, if just for the story and how it was all wrapped up. There was Carnage coming out the eyeballs. Venom went on to be a "hero?" Chalk that up to a lesson learned. The drip drops left behind from Venom that started Carnage in this issue are leaving Cletus on his own resolve to rescue himself from the "No Man's Land" of prison.
Complete with a back cover picture of the prescreen pass before released to theaters of, "Land of the Bad!" Tagline: Leave No Man Behind. Starring Liam Hemsworth and Russel Crowe! Good old Thor and Zeus themselves. Ha-ha! What happens as the lone gunman or host "on their own" are surrounded by an impossible enemy in need of rescue? Rest assured the Carnage and mayhem brought about by no man's land needs to be circumvented by the Heros believing for some shred of justice and dignity. It always takes a higher power!
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Amazing Spider-Man 359 |
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Amazing Spider-Man 359 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3980335005
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Owner Comments
Carnage is coming, and he may briefly appear in this issue as a splash blob! Cletus Kasady escapes and is making waves. Be it movies, or be it my heart, there is no quit to Carnage. Every Carnage anger cell shows red blood and that is through Carnage... because of Cletus and he is not long for this world with that Symbiote. Sheesh. If it's got Cardiac in this issue too? That bad guy won't leave well enough alone, until he finds a cure, I guess. Is it the end of Venom as the Father of the red blooded? Or has carnage got something to prove? Carnage won't die, I still think it doubles over as the passer by issue, this #359. Does it ever stick in your craw that there are so many cameos? Is it? Or won't it? Doesn't it ever stick in the sofa cushions like lost change that someone got to that storyline again and again, and it bears repeating the success of Venom. Lol It's as though the soliloquies never cancel each other out.
Complete with a back cover picture of the insides of this issue, under copies abound! Showing the "Carnage Blob!" Of which I speak, as it was all a forerunner to the Carnage that followed on the edge of our seats!
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Amazing Spider-Man 360 |
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Amazing Spider-Man 360 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
1622370005
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Owner Comments
1st cameo of Carnage!! This issue was a forerunner to the event that was Carnage, I remember well it being on grocery store newsstands! I Still have more of this run at CGC at this time. These busy covers didn't hide the artwork nor make space for your eyes to rest. The artwork isn't always bad, it just DOES look busy, which may make it look rushed. Still, an artsy style is fun every once in a while, especially when you can have a lot of plot twists and impending explosions. If only we had learned to see that coming. HA! Now it looks so obvious, something is brewing, and we'll be in for Carnage. That prisoner had found a friend that dared to stay, and too true when there are psychotic tendencies for Cletus. The Carnage movie has come and passed, I saw it in theaters, but didn't walk out ecstatic. I knew what it was meant to be, but as another origin, I can only hope it inspired the "new" crowd that were not as familiar. The tried-and-true comic formula isn't a perfect science, for if it were, we'd be bored with it as the same old thing. I'm still on the fence about some movies, although the overall genre has been strong during those times when it's been based on source material.
Complete with back cover pic of these cameo issues as my reader copies, what! WHAT! They make for a quick study of the vehemently opposed views between those involved leading up to Carnage. It isn't easy being outshined!
Grader Notes:
bend left top of front cover;
bend right top of back cover;
wear right bottom of back cover.
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Amazing Spider-Man 361 |
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Amazing Spider-Man 361 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
1263195014
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Owner Comments
The 1st full Carnage!! A hit on the newsstand and was very Good Times for me when I was young. Only a 9.6 but is a good solid grade to pay some respect for those years growing up reading, and I'm glad to have it in the collection! The newsstands on these might still be in abundance but it would have been a niche. Forget that, just give me a presentable slabbed keeper and a raw to read. We've got the ball busting Carnage who won't reason, nor will he spare any mercy. No mercy IS his trademark, the moment you consider or lay out reasonableness, look for the Cletus Kasady Symbiote Double-Cross; this is the way! There would have been bets to see if this character could pull off a type of fanbase compared to Venom at the time, but most were reading to their hearts delight; although, even Venom himself needed an antithesis as opposed to Spidey!
Complete with back cover picture of the lenticular bought with my brother at Fan Expo Dallas comic con 2022. This picture is of Carnage, it has 3 figures total, including Spidey and Venom. Really well done if there is light to see, like at a con, ha! That's why I bought it, home light is not as well lit!
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Amazing Spider-Man 362 |
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Amazing Spider-Man 362 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3743381007
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Owner Comments
2nd Appearance of Carnage. This is a newsstand copy, and these are the kind we would find at the grocery store! My friend James and I would cop a squat and help ourselves to some reading while trying to guess what would happen in the next issue, here is an example of those issues in 9.8! We've got Bagley juices flowing, though that's somewhat eww! It made the symbiote a classic style that ended up in the movies, like the symbiote is just slop that lives. Odd that is the style they were actually hoping for, or that we are used too. McFarlane tried to get the roundness right and add the brute force. Venom ends up keeping true, yet the Carnage is psychotic looking. The symbiote with Cletus Kasady as a host is as unstable as ever! That's about all she wrote for this verse, and Bagley again isn't all bad, as it was better than some of your Larson examples or others. Still at the time, it was the plot that carried the news, and the whacky novelty art has turned out to be trusted!
Complete with a back cover picture of scrap booking as a kid! Full of intrigue and Texas weather conditions, lasting all these years! Memories.
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Amazing Spider-Man 363 |
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Amazing Spider-Man 363 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
2100501009
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Owner Comments
3rd full appearance of Carnage! Newsstand and rarish in that designation, but it's still a 9.8 and I'm happy to have it in the collection! Awesome impulse buys and super happy! Got to keep the collection happy, and nothing is ever off the table, I'll take what I can get. I still usually state when the timing on stuff was good, for buying and the ole' pocketbook, got to stay proactive. That isn't just spit balling, because early on and as common these books can be, newsstand grade isn't as "found" for sale in the $1 bins anymore. That might just be because there are some "perceptive" owners that no longer trade these in for dirt cheap. Even in the wild these Newsstands aren't as common, and now, not just in grade. Keep it with what you know and buy what you love, and if you end up changing your mind, you've come to terms with the Carnage.
Complete with a back cover picture of the insides to this issue with Venom even carrying a tune, from an "under copy" because we have to read and remind ourselves why we collect!
Graders Notes Unavailable.
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Amazing Spider-Man 365 |
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Amazing Spider-Man 365 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3959870001
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Owner Comments
1st appearance of Spider-man 2099! Donated to me by the honorable Boardie PunisherPunisherPunisher, Chad is a helper. I have a raw to read, it also has a poster I believe. The art for the poster was done by Mark Bagley, which is of Carnage, with Spidey and Venom! In a classic style that flows to show the urgency of Spider-man being "in the middle!" What a sandwich! It doesn't stop there, as collecting goes, it was somewhat an oversized issue, and it has the "neat" hologram on the cover! Spidey 2099 was a 1st of "its" kind, with other characters going on to have 2099 versions as well. Even a Deadpool and Punisher, among others had the futuristic name called out! Given the popularity of those niches at the time, these characters of 2099 even broke out into their own solo ongoing series to flesh out the characters. Sometimes even, being brought to "our time" to meet the current original character!
Complete with a back cover picture of my childhood copy of Spider-Man 2099 #1 that has survived 30+ years and is in decent shape, but I will save it to read until I find a slab that suits the registry. Those were inspiring times that kept us riveted, all the while waiting at the Newsstands for more!
Grader Notes;
moderate spine stress lines to cover.
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