There are some specific defects which bring the grade down: a small 3.5 cm piece of tape reinforces the bottom spine, and what looks like rodent chew has attacked the top corners, going right through the comic to varying degrees, but no more than 2 sq cm at its worst this can be seen on the scans provided and only affects the covers and margins of the stories. This is a decent copy tight and flat with good, firmly attached staples, nice page quality and an unspoilt cover image. This was the only issue of this run, but the title returned as a regular series in 1951 (starting with #1 again). Art by Bob Fujitani, Jon Small, George Roussos, Fred Kida and Joe Kubert. Stories by sci-fi legend Henry Kuttner, working under one of his many pseudonyms. The backup story is a humorous tale starring Goofy Ghost. A man is haunted by the ghost of a stuffed tiger an island is populated with flesh-eating lizards a man disposes of his nagging wife with a subway train, but then is haunted by visions and hallucinations. This is the legendary comic book that started the horror comics trend of the 1940s-50s, as well as the first horror comic with original content, long before the Comics Code was introduced. *Horror 1940-1959: It doesn’t come any more Pre-Code than this: Eerie #1 from Avon 1947. PICTURED: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #15 VG/FN p £550 SOLD ![]() High resolution images are available on request. ![]() This copy of his debut has deep cover colour and gloss and an unspoilt cover image it’s tight and flat with good staples (although the centrefold is very slightly coming away from the top staple) very minor edge wear at spine, but a very superior copy. Originally just a highly trained and skilled human, Kraven has been retconned as having enhanced strength and longevity to make him more of a match for the super-set, and his moral ambiguity has led to him crossing the line between hero and villain many times – most recently, for example, he was a heroic member of Squirrel Girl’s supporting cast! Rumours of a Kraven media adaptation persist, so interest in this issue has spiked of late. Sergei Kravinoff, scion of exiled Russian nobility and the self-determined ‘Greatest Hunter in the World’, set out to entrap Spider-Man to, basically, big up his own reputation, and that slender premise has been parlayed into a surprisingly long career culminating in several major stories, most notoriously 1987’s ‘Kraven’s Last Hunt’. *Marvel: Another early Lee/Ditko classic Spidey new in, with the debut of Kraven the Hunter.
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