*Marvel: A couple of landmark Steve Ditko issues of the Amazing Spider-Man this week, both lower-graded and relatively affordable. 
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
#28 GD/VG p £65 1st Molten Man. One of the most iconic covers of the Ditko run on Amazing Spider-Man, as the Molten Man debuts in Amazing Spider-Man #28. This was the second issue of Spidey I ever read, and the black cover, with just the red lines of Spidey’s costume shown, plus the gleaming Molten Man with his Ditko leer is a real stand-out cover image. The black background makes this a really tough comic to find in high grade, to which our lower grade example here attests. Pence printed AND stamped (for good measure) with a biro price on the logo on faint book shop stamps. Lots of spine ticks and wear breaking colour, including small crease across bottom right of cover. Staples are okay though and pages are a supple off-white. A Marvel Pop Art Production. 
#38 GD- £40 In Ditko’s final hurrah in this issue, Spidey comes up against ‘Just A Guy Named Joe’, a grand old-fashioned slug-fest plotted by Ditko himself. The spine is split to below the upper staple and worn most of the way down. The cover is held on more by a couple of pieces of inside tape than by the staples. But the cover is clean and the pages are okay.