*Marvel: We lead off this week’s selections from the Good Doctor Collection with more Doctor Octopus. Amazing Spider-Man #11 proclaimed ‘The Long-Awaited Return Of Doctor Octopus’ (ever since #3?) and the story continued into #12. Contrasting conditions on this two-parter:
PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
#11 PR p £90 This is not a nice copy at all, sadly. Pence printed, covers detached and separated and with chips out at top and bottom spine, 8 cm jagged tear across centre cover from right edge and much cover wear and colour-breaking creasing. The first half of the comic has a continual chip out of the margin on the right edge. Other than that it is complete with centrefold attached at staples and reasonable pages. Great to fill a gap, but not a source of pride in your collection.
#12 FN- p £425 Pence priced, with great cover colour and gloss. Staples firmly attached, a virtually unmarked cover and excellent white to off-white pages. There are a couple of tiny colour-breaking creases across the bottom right cover and a tear of 1.5 cm at the base of the spine, with leads to a 4 cm colour-breaking crease  at the bottom right corner. A superior copy.