 His cover art for "Amazing Spider-Man" No.313, for which he was originally paid $700 in 1989, for example, would later sell for $71,200 in 2010.One critic of McFarlane's detail-heavy style was "Comics Journal" editor Gary Groth, who said of McFarlane in a 2017 interview, "He doesn’t have any authentic virtues as a visual stylist.