I’ve been thinking about it. But yeah, I’ve noticed this video resurface on my RU-vid metrics. It’s been getting quite a few views recently for a 1-year+ old video.
Very interesting as always, especially as I’ve started picking up some Spider-Man books recently. Am content with my asm 252 8.5 & asm 300 6.5 as higher grades are getting out of reach. Bagged an asm 195 (origin & 2nd app. of black cat) on the cheap, having taken your advice about more affordable 2nd & 3rd appearances of key characters 👍
Very well done! It’s easy to see all the work you’ve put into this video and it’s greatly appreciated. Love the list, especially 31 and 121, both of which are major milestones in Spidey history and don’t get mentioned as often as they should. Thanks again
Another great video... thanks! It really gets you thinking of how hard it is to do a top 10, or top 13 list for Spiderman. So many great books in there. Can I ask, I have been after an AF 15. The thing is, the one I’ve found has lost its cover. Do you think it’s worth getting it..and how how much do you think something like that is even worth? Other than having lost it’s cover, the pages are in great shape.
Thanks! For a coverless copy it would all come down to price. I honestly have no idea what a coverless copy goes for. You have to try and find prior sales of coverless copies but that can be tough. I’m just guessing, but it’s probably worth 1-2k as a coverless copy, but I’m just throwing a number out based on what 0.5s go for (around 10k).
Thank you for the many interesting facts abt ASM Ryan -- A few honorable mentions for the list might be.. #101 1st Morbius #102 Lizard & Morbius #119 Spidey v Hulk #122 Death of Harry Osborne Goblin #124 1st Man Wolf #135 2nd Punisher These may be "sleepers" for the next tier collector, like myself 🙂 I enjoyed your Top Ten Spideys list very much Automatic 👍
Amazing Spiderman #50 is still extremely underrated. The Iconic cover would have been enough to justify its value, add a major key like first appearance of Kingpin and the book should already have been worth double what it's currently selling for. Just my opinion.
What a difference a year makes. I would love to see a comparison to today's ASM current values to that of the values in this video. That would be interesting.
It’s a misconception though that it is much rarer at 9.8. The 9.8s of the newsstands are still selling for significantly more than the directs, even back in the early 80s/late 79. For example, the newsstand of X-men 129 in a 9.8 sold for over 13k. Whereas the direct sold for $6600. The newsstands are much more common in general, but not at high grade.
@@voidvoid4066 if you look at sales history of these books you can see that for most books (even early on) they are more rare in newsstand at a 9.8 even when there are more newsstand books being printed. Unfortunately CGC doesn’t track newsstand vs direct, so sales is the best alternative to look at this.
@@AutomaticComics not correct. print runs of early directs are well documented and much rarer at around 10% for this issue. That is a fact. News stand variants become rarer in late 80s. People just don’t understand this as they think all news stands are rare like ASM 300.
I’m not talking about print runs. I’m talking about the number of issues in 9.8. I’ve looked into quite a few different books about this with respect to sales data of 9.8s of directs and newsstands. It’s fine if you don’t agree, but I have spent quite a bit of time looking into these sales and I know what I’m talking about.
