*Marvel: Something a little less vintage in this week’s Spider-Mania feature. While we tend to favour crumbly old comics for crumbly old folks like ourselves, we do make exception for titles or issues of exceptional importance and popularity, and there are few more significant debuts, in the latter days of the 20th Century, than everyone’s favourite brain-eating symbiote Venom, who graduated from being a genetically modified costume in a jar to the fully-fledged Emperor of Spidey’s Rogue’s Gallery! Having debuted in Secret Wars #8 as a semi-sentient blob which configured itself into Spider-Man’s new costume, the ‘symbiote’ became a regular feature in Spidey’s own series before being revealed as a malevolent alien parasite which disclosed its true agenda! The star of a recent smash-hit film (with a sequel on the way), Venom’s star is in the ascendant. This copy of Amazing Spider-Man #300 is a FN+ p copy, with light breaks in spine colour, faint corner wear, and minimal corner ‘blunting’. Interiors clean and sharp, white paper, firm staples. FN+ p £135. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD