*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 the ‘Venom Trilogy’, Amazing Spider-Man #298-300, leading up to the first full appearance of Venom, is one such example. Having debuted in Secret Wars #8 as a semi-sentient blob which configured itself into Spider-Man’s new costume (no, really), the ‘symbiote’ became a regular feature in Spidey’s own series before being revealed as a malevolent alien parasite which revealed its true agenda in this very issue! 298, with the first brief appearance of Eddie Brock (the man who would become Venom) and the beginning of Todd MacFarlane’s run as artist, is VF+ p £28; #299, with the first cameo of Venom himself, is VF/NM p at £27; and the big one – the first ‘Full Venom’ – is VF+ p at £115. SORRY, THESE HAVE NOW SOLD