Amazing Spider-Man # 20/Die Spinne # 22, Williams 1974, CGC 9.8, German, TOP POP

Description: I am liquidating my comic and music collection. Please feel free to contact me with any further question. I am also offering more items at Ebay.de (Germany). To see them, you might have to re-log in again to Ebay.de. Amazing Spider-Man # 20/Die Spinne # 22, Williams 1974, CGC 9.8,German edition, TOP POP, highest gradeCGC 9.8 UniversalCGC Certification number : # 4332170013 single highest grade worldwide ! page quality : White reprints with the ORIGINAL cover of ASM 20 on 32 pages :1) Amazing Spider-Man 20 “The Coming of the Scorpion”, Marvel 19652) Tales to Astonish 91, Submariner story part 2 “Outside the Gates waits Death” (pgs 7-12), Marvel 1967 to check the CGC census, please look under “Amazing Spider-Man 20”, then Williams VerlagPLEASE do not buy for incredible high prices German reprints from the '90s or even newer ones (Panini etc) and let me give you a short introduction to the history of these GERMAN EDITIONS of Marvel (and DC) titles. BSV started in 1966 reprinting some Marvel titles in black & white and in non-chronological order. 153 books names HIT COMICS were published. At the end of that run some titles were also issued in colour, but not for long and publishing stopped in 1973. WILLIAMS was, one year later in 1974, the first publisher to reprint the original US books in COLOUR and in CHRONOLOGICAL order, the main important series were: Amazing Spider-Man = Die Spinne 1 - 137Fantastic Four = Die Fantastischen Vier 1 - 124The Avengers = Die (ruhmreichen) Rächer 1 - 100Hulk/Tales to Astonish = Hulk 1 - 33Thor/Journey into Mystery = Thor 1 - 33Iron Man/Tales of Suspense = Der Eiserne 1 - 12Doctor Strange (from # 169-180) = Doktor Strange 1 - 12 Green Lantern = Die Grüne Laterne 1 - 12 Tomb of Dracula = Dracula 1 - 33Frankenstein = Frankenstein 1 - 33 These publications stopped in 1979, the longest running series were ASM (Die Spinne) and FF (Die Fantastischen Vier). The fact that these books were the first coloured versions in chronological order make them the "real" collector's items you should look out for. But there are several reasons why these books are very hard to find in higher grades; 1) The PAPER QUALITY : was not the best, which could result in fast yellowing of the pages, and sides and edges were quite delicate. 2) The DISTRIBUTION : The Comics were sent to certain federal states and then the returns were sent to other states. This could happen 3 - 4 times (!), so once these books arrived in some shops they were unfortunately allready not in "near mint" condition anymore. 3) The CULTURAL SURROUNDINGS : These books were at the time considered in Germany as "Schundliteratur", meaning "trashy literature". Parents nearly allways disapproved of buying and reading this kind of "literature". 4) In consequence the habit of STORING COMIC BOOKS was absolutely not common in Germany at the time. There was no easy access to plastic sleeves and boards, so in general comic books were just stored somewhere in a youth's room. 5) The PRINT RUN : was far lower than the one of the US counterparts. So it is a bid of a miracle that I can offer you now a large number of books in really high grades, many of them are the highest graded books worldwide according to the CGC census (TOP POP). Please have a look at my other offers and at my private web page and feel free to contact me. registered shipping worldwide : 25 USDPLEASE NOTE : I am living in FRANCE, so shipping is actually more expensive, but Ebay sets a maximum of 25 USD for "domestic" shipping, so I will carry the difference. Take advantage.

Price: 2130 USD

Location: Bédarrides

End Time: 2024-12-22T11:36:14.000Z

Shipping Cost: 25 USD