Set Description:
My encounters with Australia have been amazing and a grateful recipient is my goal with this set. Music to books to actors/actresses, it gives us pause to the dynamics that make a country great, successful and influential! Australian Price Editions/Variants are a bit niche and are a welcome addition to any collection and from any series or genre. They have a different type of distribution but all in all, have some harder to find issues, with Amazing Spider-man, and or, in America!
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Australia is full of things that can seem even bigger than Texas or Alaska! With insects or animals, why not make it a big splash with Comics, Comics, Comics!
  
A nice pour over of friends and shared nostalgia! When buying, giving, and or a holiday with visiting cheer therein is the heart within us all to be as Amazing as a Spider-man. It may take years to understand. It all is within the grasp of concern, compassion, and learned by a thwipping of a Spider-man that also swings for the responsibility it brings. Mary Jane, a wife and kids and central to being of likeminded spirit, in kindness, and with odds and ends, as in the sight of these pages it all plays a part with an Amazing Spider-man! Even Australian Editions or Price Variants! Giving and possibly setting an example for illustrations played out within the reads, to then give us some adrenaline without costing an arm and a leg. Those back issue bins are still around for us, better get to diving while we still can.
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Amazing Spider-Man 361 Australian Price Variant |
| Item: |
Amazing Spider-Man 361 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4295260001
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Owner Comments
Australian Price Variant. 1st full appearance of Carnage (Cletus Kasady). $1.80 cover price. Indicia reads 4/92. SIGNED & SKETCH BY MARK BAGLEY ON 8/29/23. Brought to me from the boundaries of the down under by friend, fellow collector, and boardie PunisherPunisherPunisher. He visited the U.S.A. and brought a token of friendship for me driving him around to look for Comics! Comics! Comics! It was FCBD weekend 2023, and we had good success to find stuff on sale and affordable. His only condition was if he gave this issue to me, was that I needed to go all out with a remarque and sketch by Mark Bagley the creator to round it out. It appeared a high-grade copy and coming back 9.0 was a decent grade for the book to try a little frivolity, and here it is back before year end 2023. Featuring the 1st appearance of Carnage, and a Mark Bagley creation with sketch and signature series. I remember when I first saw this book, the regular issue, as a kid at the grocery store. Those were times when we wish we had more lunch money! It has been pressed.
Complete with a back cover picture of the other Australian token brought to me from down under! A hand-crafted boomerang that is subtly cliche but brought the thunder all the same! Thunderstruck!
Grader Notes:
light creasing to cover;
light spine stress lines to cover.
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Amazing Spider-Man 362 Australian Price Variant |
| Item: |
Amazing Spider-Man 362 Modern |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
2022570004
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Owner Comments
Australian Price Variant. 2nd Full Carnage, a Venom & Human Torch appearance. $1.80 cover price. The Amazing Spider-man is finding out that enemies can use and have the same snappy come backs, including the webs as well, in the friendly neighborhood! Time to wash out the suits and badges of honor to come up with something new. It isn't that way for long, as team-ups are necessary and the Symbiotes are bewildered on which side to choose by the end of the story. Which will be more "despicable" or unwarranted within the new discovery of the locations they find themselves in and an area of play? The Daily Bugle will get the scoop! While Spider-man is left to once again fend off the bad guys, and to also protect his position in reputation within the confines and metropolis. It is getting one sided for a while, and Venom has to weigh his options among those acquaintances to figure out his own position in the conflict. Bought from Boardie trademarkcomics, for $120.
Complete with a back cover picture of the prescreen pass before released to theaters of the movie, "Despicable Me 4!" Sometimes the humor in the bad guy shows some subtle hints of really wanting to turn out used for the "good!" Such as Venom with his minion offspring, Carnage. These quips are new to Spider-man and as despicable it all is, Spidey must look to himself and see if it is possible that they are all so different and new situations.
Grader Notes:
very light spine stress lines to cover;
very small tear bottom of spine.
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Amazing Spider-Man 363 Australian Price Variant |
| Item: |
Amazing Spider-Man 363 Modern |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
3802643007
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Owner Comments
Australian Price Variant. 3rd Full Carnage. Venom, Human Torch & Mister Fantastic appearance. $1.80 cover price. Indicia reads 6/92. The happy family of Spider-like entities are having a squabble, but it is a wonder of who will be loyal to whom. A double cross always being in the works with the Carnage "red-one" Symbiote, that Venom realizes that it is either time to suit up or be thrown to the wayside. Time for Bagley and writers to make this Venom Splash an ongoing thing with the McFarlane introduction back in #298/299. It is these things that flesh out the characters and give them substance to refer to when reading future stories. Carnage is searching to establish dominance and with all the knowledge he has so far shows up at the Daily Bugle! J. Jonah Jameson in tow, to establish that all Spider-web people are indeed a menace to society, it only furthers his cause and no matter how many times the friendly neighborhood Spider-man seems on the side of the good of society.
Complete with a back cover picture of the insides to this issue from an under copy, which isn't an Australian Price Variant like this slab, but is the one to read to remember the newsstands, which also happened with distribution from Australia. This slab being bought from boardie trademarkcomics for $100, and a welcome addition to the set!
Grader Notes:
multiple dent;
writing left top of front cover.
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Amazing Spider-Man 373 Australian Edition |
| Item: |
Amazing Spider-Man 373 Modern |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
4229487004
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Owner Comments
Venom backup story. Australian Price Variant/Edition $1.80 cover price. David Michelinie & Tod Smith stories. Tod Smith art Mark Bagley & Randy Emberlin cover & art. Bagley with another bewilderment in the Venom progression, showing at what lengths the Spider-man is pretty tied up! Not for the faint of heart early on when the mystery was with what ingenuity would these stars push this Venom character too. Those feats of heart and courage took the strength of a Peter Parker and how he could find a way of escape, which is always promised. To not fall on his face, but with landing on two feet, web out a victory; although, clinging to the walls of emotions. Having a brain that has helped with intelligence and charisma in a hero persona personality, it will have him wondering what backup is there for an Amazing Spider-man when the cards are down. Faithful are the friends that uphold and restore, which eventually brings Venom to an understanding!
Complete with a back cover picture the world over of the "Venom #1: Movie Prescreen 2018!" With masks galore! The whole audience was given these masks and asked to wear them for a group picture, which was before any such pandemic a few years later and a little unsettling when events did occur. Ha-Ha. Venom's tongue on the thereafter masked adventure personas were then seen worn around town and the LCS! With a big story to tell!
Grader Notes Unavailable.
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Amazing Spider-Man 410 Australian Price Variant |
| Item: |
Amazing Spider-Man 410 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4139317007
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Owner Comments
Australian Price Variant. $2.50 cover price. Clones? Shmones! Ben Reilly?!? A real American Hero? Now justified by becoming yet another false impression with the Carnage! Blinking may make you miss the hysteria that could now be seen as laughable, when the clone backseat driver turns out to be the one and only friendly neighborhood Spidey!? It takes those twists and turns to make you think twice, and all while being on the blink of betrayal and otherwise, well, Carnage! Those writers must have hit the deli early to crank out the crackpot idea to having a Peter Parker in the underground come out as the supposed blanked memory and clone saga switcheroo, which came from out of nowhere, and now the Carnage tried and true will take over the supposed clone and introduce the Spider-Carnage. Well as it was also distributed in Australia, no less, where you might pay a bit more for the sobering story effects of an Amazing Spider-man, it takes all kinds here in the collection.
Complete with a back cover picture of the prescreen pass before released publicly of the movie, "Blink Twice!" Starring Gambit's own Channing Tatum circa 2024 and showing not all is as what has seemed. A Zoe Kravitz directed movie that tries to bring to life their own deadly switcheroo mind games that bring the rich to their knees, when a weekend excursion on a private island turns into its own delusion!
Grader Notes Unavailable.
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