*Marvel: ‘Does the Green Goblin Look Cute To You?…’ The rather twee opening line of the blurb on the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #14 heralded the first appearance of Spider-Man’s most dastardly and persistent enemy – his ‘Joker’, so to speak. The sinister and malevolent Green Goblin has plagued Spider-Man ever since, causing chaos, destruction and the deaths of some of Spidey’s most beloved friends, and this masterwork by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko is where his villainous career kicked off. And guest-starring the Hulk to boot! This lower-graded copy from the Good Doctor Collection looks pretty nice, with a clean, virtually unmarked cover with bright colours. There is a shallow 2 cm chip out bottom edge and an upper spine split of almost 7 cm which goes over the upper staple, which is thus loose at the front cover only; a small diagonal loss at top back cover goes slightly into the masthead box at the front. Corner blunting with miniscule corner off bottom right and a small colour-breaking crease there. Lower staple is loose at front cover, but like the upper, secure at the back. Tiny lower spine split with a couple of small nicks out bottom back cover. Very short tear through upper margin of comic. Staples firm at centre; nice off-white pages. High resolution images are available on request.
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #14 GD- £775