*Marvel: Growing up reading DC, I was a relative latecomer to the Marvel Age of Comics. I tried a few before coming to my first issue of Amazing Spider-Man: #27, the second of a two-parter featuring the Crime-Master and the Green Goblin. At first, I didn’t know quite what to make of it. It was , I think, my first exposure to the work of Steve Ditko, and the gangsters depicted on the cover looked so old-fashioned that I found myself wondering if the story was set in some earlier period. And who was that grinning gargoyle floating in the background? The teenage me also loved Stan’s way with titles. This is a reasonable cents copy (with a small 9d price written in pen on the ‘D’ of Spider, with a rich colour cover (dark blue background), stapled in from the spine, so there is a reading crease along the spine where the comic has been opened to read, a fairly soft central subscription crease which just breaks colour and a colour-breaking crease across the right bottom cover. Other than that, only minor edge wear and tight staples. 
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #27 VG+ £95