*Marvel UK: Commencing in 1972, Marvel UK started re-packaging ‘vintage’ (from all of a decade previously!) stories for the British audience. This involved breaking up the book-length tales to shorter instalments for serialisation, and thereby often necessitating brand new covers and splash pages, including early work by luminaries such as Jim Starlin. We have a selection of Spider-Man Comics Weekly from its third issue up to its thirteenth, all before the mag switched from pulp to slick covers. Often the form in which a generation of readers first encountered the Marvel heroes, these UK editions, particularly the earlier, ‘pulp’ ones, are becoming harder to find as they’re snapped up by aging nostalgists.
PICTURED: SPIDER-MAN #5 FN £8 SOLD