*Marvel: If you’re looking for really nice copies of Amazing Spider-Man for your collection, then look no further than the Totally Amazing Spider-Man Collection. All high grade; even the few that fall below VF (and most are above) are really good-looking copies – no duds here, and nearly all cents copies. Stan Lee rather controversially decided to feature a drugs plot in Amazing Spider-Man #96-98, a Green Goblin trilogy when Norman Osborn remembers his sinister alter ego. This meant the Comics Code Authority seal was not used on these issues. There’s a whole load of interaction between Peter Parker’s growing cast and a story with a social conscience, culminating in an epic showdown with the Goblin. The art by Kane and Romita don’t hurt none, either.
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
#96 VF+ £150 Flat and glossy, with only the tiniest handling wear at spine. Square corners, tight, firm staples, supple off-white pages.
#97 VF/NM £225 Almost a perfect copy. Flat, tight and glossy. Supple white to off-white pages. Just a couple of faint, short crease marks at the upper staple (not breaking colour) and a slight, faint tanning to the edges of the inside covers.
#98 VF+ £135 Flat, tight and glossy. Supple white to off-white pages. Tiny wear at corner extremities, very tiny signs of wear visible at spine.