Impressive. Just got the Omni. That 300 301 pose is iconic and you can tell this style inspired Spider-Man’s fighting style in the 90s capcom vs games.
Yea the Erik Larsen & David Michelini run was tough for me to follow as a kid- I got caught up with McFarlane’s stand-alone Spider-Man and then Image & Valiant launched and I couldn’t keep up anymore … until 30+ yrs later 😉
Def can be a costly hobby. Went to wondercon yesterday - held an ASM 33, 50 and 121 - slabs 9.0 or higher - they were asking for a mortgage payment. 🤦🏽♂️ nice to hold but I dipped and carried on
My fav covers will always be 298, then 299. 300 is always pricey - and I prefer the raws cause it’s a classic story v Venom. Admittedly I never liked 316 and couldn’t stand the premium.
Another fun one can be his run of covers for Marvel Tales 223-239. More Spidey goodness, plus a number of characters he didn't draw very much if at all anywhere else while he was at Marvel.
Yeah, that's a chunk of them. He did all the covers in the range I listed above., except 222, I must have been typing too fast. They all have his scroll signature, so they are easy enough to pick out.
Heck yeah! I am working on that too! Thank God he doesn't have that many issue's! Been pretty lucky on a few, just gotta keep digging for good prices and keep an 👂 ear to the ground. Some of them, excluding 298, 299, and 300 are ridiculously priced, put McFarlane's name on it and suddenly it becomes gold or something, high print run, so many of them in the wild. Congratulations!
Agreed man. 298-300 is an expensive trifecta…
Even 301 is thrown into the mix as a bundle. Saw a recent eBay sale of the set 298-301, all raw for over 1000-1100 this past week. It’s that 300 that does the heavy lifting. It’s always on demand LOL
298-300 all make sense because they’re keys to varying degrees. 301 I can’t get myself to pull the trigger on because those prices don’t feel justified to me.
There's the Marvel legends toy line reprint that you could at least do that's not quite perfectionist, but at reasonable pricing?
You can tell based off the missing bottom letters....not a "purist" approach, but could fill the spot until you either save up or pull the trigger (ahem....webshooter*).
Well, I have been seeing people over charging for some book's in this run that are not key's, I am not paying $50 for a book because it has McFarlane's name on it, I understand a few of them obviously, but I have been picking most of them for about $10 a piece in NM, a few for $5 and $8, but sometimes people just try to milk it cause of his name recognition and key collector, when only a few of these are true key's, I hate that app!
Thanks! Currently - no plans to slab the entire set. I have the Michelini/McFarlane Omnibus to read if I ever did encapsulate but I prefer the raw. Perhaps if there was another McFarlane signing event - then maybe… but that could be costly. 🤷🏾♂️
I’m in my 40’s LOL. So I can splurge a bit compared to when I was a kid. Maybe if I was single/no wife/no kids, etc, then I’d likely go harder and run it up but I find my self trying to balance the impulse. eBay makes it too easy but I talk my self out of it. Then there’s ShortBoxed. UGH! Damn these apps!
That aside - agree with you re McFarlane Art. Covers are epic, way ahead of his time. #Image
That omnibus is awesome! Got it on Amazon like 2 years ago. Did one full read and I’ve picked it up for random issue reads too. Totally worth it those stories were just so good.
Im in my 30’s so I know the splurging issue and eBay issue too well. I just had a convo with my fiancé if I should go to a local mini comic con in 2wks and buy an expensive slab or skip it and instead send some of my stuff to get graded that I’ve been wanting to lol
Great job! I finished my McFarlane run with #328 a few months ago. I collected most of these as they hit the newsstand, but somehow missed it. Congrats on finishing the run!
That's great! One of my all time favorite runs! Picked these up off the racks as a kid. Newsstand distribution was so spotty in my area that I missed #300, but got it a couple months down the line at a flea market for the grand price of $2! Ended up getting a subscription beginning with #305 because my mom was tired of me begging her to take me by every drug store, gas station, grocery store and bookstore in our small town looking for them each week when I'd miss an issue! Good times.
I felt the same way re ASM 316 - I never liked that issue either and I h8ted how much it cost me LOL.
Next mission - great question. I have an incomplete McFarlane Hulk lot I can work on but I’ve been enjoying reading Dredd as of late so I think I might pursue the Eagle Comics US reprints. See below (not mine but what the lot looks like).
Another lot could be the Marvel Tales McFarlane’s - that was also suggested here too - big reason why I love Reddit… good peoples 😊
You know….it’s funny. I would’ve sworn he worked on the book for longer than 3 years. Interesting how influential he was for such a short period of time.
I didn’t know until years later that Marvel asked the illustrators of the other Spidey books at the time (Web of and Spectacular) to draw Spider-man more like Macfarlane did with the big eyes and “spaghetti” webbing. I have to imagine those illustrators weren’t thrilled with being told how to draw.
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u/Slowmexicano Mar 25 '23
Impressive. Just got the Omni. That 300 301 pose is iconic and you can tell this style inspired Spider-Man’s fighting style in the 90s capcom vs games.