Amazing Spider-Man #25 1:1000 Remastered Romita Variant CGC 9.8
This book here is a toughie. It is the Amazing Spider-Man #25 1:1000 ratio variant. It’s the Remastered Romita Sr edition. The artwork is recycled old art from a previous issue...just cleaned up and brightened minus word balloons. Here is the original panel and then brightened.
The reason this book is practically a ghost, especially in a 9.8 is that it’s a 1 in 1000 variant. Meaning retailers had to order 1000 of the regular shown below to qualify to order just 1 of the variant.
Seems terrible right? It gets worse. This book also had. a 9.99 cover price compared to the normal price of 3.99. That means a retailer had to order 10k worth of retail books to get 1 of these. Ridiculous. Yet I stupidly still participated.
Then comes the heartbreaking part of most of these looking like pure dogshit conditionwise. It took 4 replacements through Diamond to get a decent looking copy. The first one wasn’t connected by a staple and was hanging out of the cover. The next ones were ripped and just demolished. With each one i needed replaced I had to provide proof of destruction on the previous one to my rep so I shredded them all up and took video each time. Was kinda sad destroying those. Lol. Here is my tasty 9.8 copy.
Anyway, this book is one of those books that most collectors wouldn’t care too much about. Yet is a nightmare for those madmen and madwomen vying for a complete ASM run...including variabts (such as myself). Currently a CGC 9.8 should fetch at least a couple grand. Wouldn’t be surprised if this was a 4-5k book someday.
Still nothing compared to the holy grail of ASM variants...the Dell’Otto 667. That article is coming soon...
If you want me to shut up and stop posting about Spider-Man or other comic shit...too bad. Want in one hand, shit in the other and see which fills up first. I have tons left in the tank. If however you follow me here on Steemit, I promise to only provide cool and interesting articles about the geek world we all love. Thx for looking folks!
Any recent sales of the 667 variant? Curious how it’s doing since the epic 5-figure sale...
Nothing since then as far as I know. In my upcoming article about it I’ll explain how I got mine. Interesting story.
Holy shitsky, man... gratz !! 🔥
Thx brother. It’s not perfect. It’s got some flaws but for how often it comes up which is practically never...I had to jump on it.
Keep it up!!
Thank you sir!! In the next couple days I’ll post the story regarding how I got my copy. It’s pretty interesting and depressing. :(