*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. Amazing Spider-Man #15 is a slight exception: it’s a pence printed copy and graded at FN+. Another early Lee/Ditko classic Spidey, with the debut of Kraven the Hunter. Sergei Kravinoff, scion of exiled Russian nobility and the self-determined ‘Greatest Hunter in the World’, set out to entrap Spider-Man to, basically, big up his own reputation, and that slender premise has been parlayed into a surprisingly long career culminating in several major stories, most notoriously 1987’s ‘Kraven’s Last Hunt’. Originally just a highly trained and skilled human, Kraven has been retconned as having enhanced strength and longevity to make him more of a match for the super-set, and his moral ambiguity has led to him crossing the line between hero and villain many times. This is a nice flat copy with vibrant colour cover and almost entirely unmarked. There is one small crease below the upper staple of about 3 cm, which only breaks colour for about 0.5 cm at the spine with  a couple of tiny spine ticks above it and a soft spine crease of about 3 cm in that area which does not break colour. There are a couple of very shallow pressure marks around the logo which are barely discernible. Square corners, supple pages a nice off-white to cream, staples tight and firm. With a Kraven movie in the works for 2023, has there ever been a better time to invest in his first appearance? High resolution images are available on request.
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #15 FN+ p £1,300