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Title: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN No. 18 * Steve Ditko Collection
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Publisher:Marvel [Indicia: Non-Pareil Publishing Group]
Date Published: November, 1964
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CGC certified: VF- (7.5). Cream to off-white pages. STEVE DITKO COLLECTION. Cover: Steve Ditko pencils and inks, Stan Goldberg colors. Story: Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Art: Steve Ditko. Colors: Stan Goldberg. Lettering: Sam Rosen.

Provenance: From the Steve Ditko Estate, CGC-certified as Steve Ditko's personal copy, and with a certificate of authenticity signed by Mr. Patrick S. Ditko, Steve Ditko's brother. Not cleaned and pressed in order to preserve all traces of Steve Ditko's handling. GPAnalysis: A non-Ditko Collection 7.5 sold for $810 in 8/22.

A note on the Ditko Collection: Steve Ditko owned from one to three copies of each of the 41 Spider-Man comics that he drew (comprising Amazing Fantasy #15, Amazing Spider-Man #s 1-38, and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #s 1 & 2). The only complete set of 41 Spidey comics belonging to Ditko is featured in this sale; an incomplete set of 23 Spidey comics was offered last year by another auction house; and a final incomplete set of 19 Spidey comics will be offered by PBA next year.

Ditko Collection Census: This is the only Ditko Collection copy of ASM #18.

Sandman terrorizes the town as Spidey cowers behind a hobo's lean-to. Passersby, dressed and hatted in a style bordering on anachronistic in post-JFK America, scatter. With Jameson triumphant and the webhead's rep in ruins, everyone wonders: is this the end of Spider-Man?

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