American Update: Spider-Mania/Mighty Marvel Firsts: 1st Full Carnage in Amazing Spider-Man #361
*Marvel: So, what do you do when one cuddly brain-sucking symbiote just isn’t enough? Well, the House of Recycled Ideas came up with letting it spawn (not ‘Spawn’!) and thus was born Carnage, offspring of Venom, who rapidly metastasised into one of the MU’s most popular villains. I know this to be at the top of a lot of wants lists, so we’re glad to have an affordable copy of Amazing Spider-Man #361 new into stock. This has all the cover gloss, sharp corners, tight staples etc you’d expect of a comic of this vintage, but there are a few defects worthy of note. Firstly, it is mis-cut (an original printing error, not a wear and tear issue), so that the rear cover is slightly ‘wrapped’ around to the front at the bottom of the spine (see scan); also there are non-colour-breaking horizontal creases near the bottom edge, which also has two tiny nicks/tears in it. Also new in in high grade: #362 and #363, the second and third parts of this initial Venom trilogy.
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #361 FN £60 SOLD