*Marvel: If you’re looking for really nice copies of Amazing Spider-Man for your collection, then look no further than the Totally Amazing Spider-Man Collection. All high grade; even the few that fall below VF (and most are above) are really good-looking copies – no duds here, and nearly all cents copies. The last two issues drawn by Steve Ditko this week, Amazing Spider-Man #37 & #38. Norman Osborn had in effect been in Amazing Spider-Man before #37 in his Green Goblin guise, but when he first appeared as Norman Osborn in Amazing Spider-Man #37, none of us knew that. This issue also features the menace of the Robot-Master and, for those of you who prize such things, rather unsurprisingly a robot cover. A key issue for someone who would go on to figure even more significantly in the Marvel Universe. And, in Ditko’s final hurrah in #38, Spidey comes up against ‘Just A Guy Named Joe’, a grand old-fashioned slug-fest plotted by Ditko himself.
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
#37 FN/VF £325 Clean and bright with vibrant colour, tight and firm staples, hardly any corner blunting, lovely off-white to white pages. Flat and supple with just small hints of wear at spine and right edge; no cover markings.
#38 VF- £225 A superb copy, printed without a lower staple, but upper is firm. Bright and glossy, excellent supple off-white to white pages and no cover markings. Small amounts of corner blunting, but only the top of the spine is really affected.