Amazing Spider-Man #3 PR 0.5 1963 1st app. Doctor Octopus For Sale

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Amazing Spider-Man #3 PR 0.5 1963 1st app. Doctor Octopus:
$880.00

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Amazing Spider-Man #3 PR 0.5 1963 1st app. Doctor Octopus

Grade PR 0.5 Year 1963 Publisher Marvel

INCOMPLETE. Multiple ad pages missing, does not interrupt art or story. Full length spine split. Heavy cover oxidation with brittleness.

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Description

Cover art by Steve Ditko. First appearance of Dr. Octopus in Spider-Man Versus Doctor Octopus, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; When an experiment goes wrong, Otto Octavius gains control of his robotic arms and decides to take over an atomic facility, but Spider-Man stops him. Spider-Man pin-up page by Ditko. Reprinted in Marvel Tales # 140. First issue with a letters column (including a letter by MyComicShop president Buddy Saunders!). 36 pgs. $0.12.

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