American Update: Spider-Mania Conclusion inc 1st & 2nd Punisher
*Marvel: Our Spider-Mania event concludes with a nice selection from the 1970’s primarily from the run between #’s 125-150, though with a few earlier stragglers – beginning with #97, the Non-Code Approved Drug story featuring the Green Goblin! Other highlights include the debuts of the Grizzly, the Cyclone, the scintillating Spider-Mobile, and the first full appearance of Clone Gwen Stacy (look, you had to be there…), but ‘top of the shop’ have to be the first and second appearances of everybody’s favourite gun-happy killer, the Punisher, in issues #129 and #135 respectively! This is from the period when distribution went south in the UK, so hardly any of these issues appeared in any quantity, and these are primarily high-grade, averaging FN or better, with many VF. The Amazing Spider-Man #129 is VG+ at £200, #135 VF+ at £50.