*Marvel: By the time of Spider-Man’s 50th issue, ‘new’ artist John Romita had made the series his own, and this milestone number was marked with the debut of a new villain, the Kingpin – so long associated with Daredevil, in the post-Miller years, that younger readers are unaware that he originated in Spider-Man’s Rogues’ Gallery! The cover of #50, with Peter temporarily abandoning his Spider-Man identity, has become etched in the minds of a generation, endlessly imitated and ‘homaged’, in comics and other media. This is a decent pence printed copy of this important issue, with good colour cover and gloss, a very small lower spine split (about 4 mm), firmly attached staples and reasonable page quality. It is marred marginally by the top right corner being very slightly dog-eared throughout the comic (but only by a small soft crease of a few mm), and, more significantly, two label scuffs: one below the logo (right side) and a much larger one below that, both of which can be seen in the scan. If you can live with those, a chance to get this classic issue, ever-increasing in value, at a cheap price.
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #50 FA p £100