American Comics Update: Spider-Mania: The Totally Amazing Spider-Man Collection/Mighty Marvel Firsts: 1st full Carnage in Amazing #361
*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. This week, following a cameo appearance in #360, we present the full first appearance of Carnage in Amazing #361. So, what do you do when one cuddly brain-sucking symbiote just isn’t enough? Well, the House of Recycled Ideas came up with letting it spawn (not ‘Spawn’!) and thus was born Carnage, offspring of Venom, who rapidly metastasised into one of the MU’s most popular villains. This key issue is a very nice high grade copy with brilliant colour and gloss, square corners, tight and flat, with firm staples and pure white pages. The only blemish is a tiny dink mark at the base of the spine which is not severe and does not break colour and is about 5 mm in length.
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #361 VF+ £65