*Marvel: By the time of Spider-Man’s 50th issue, ‘new’ artist John Romita had made the series his own, and this milestone number was marked with the debut of a new villain, the Kingpin – so long associated with Daredevil, in the post-Miller years, that younger readers are unaware of the fact that he originated in Spider-Man’s Rogues’ Gallery! The cover of #50, with Peter temporarily abandoning his Spider-Man identity, has become etched in the minds of a generation, endlessly imitated and ‘homaged’, in comics and other media. This copy of Spider-Man #50 is a sound and clean, attractive FN+ pence copy with the classic cover scene unmarred. It would grade higher but for the presence of a previous owner’s name and a date on the upper back cover margin – neat and unobtrusive writing.
PICTURED: SPIDER-MAN #50 FN+ p £375 SOLD