AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1 * CGC 3.5 * DITKO'S COPY
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Title: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL No. 1 * Steve Ditko Collection
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Publisher:Marvel [Indicia: Non-Pareil Publishing Group]
Date Published: [September], 1964
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CGC certified: VG- (3.5). Cream to off-white pages. STEVE DITKO COLLECTION. Cover: Steve Ditko pencils and inks. Story: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko. Steve Ditko pencils and inks. Lettering: Sam Rosen, Artie Simek. 1st app: Sinister Six.
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 3.5 sold for $1750 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: There are two Ditko Collection copies of ASM Annual #1: 3.5 and 3.5. This ties for highest-graded copy.
Fistful of fun. Spidey sage Andrew Rilstone likens this mag to the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a whirlwind tour-de-force unlike anything that had come before in its dizzying comprehensiveness:
"This is Stan Lee is setting out his stall: offering a summa of the Spider-Man myth to date and offering a primer for new readers. It establishes the canonical baddies; it reintroduces the supporting cast; it offers a visual F.A.Q. about how Spider-Man's powers work.... There are no less than ten cameo appearances by other super-heroes, each one of which is hyper-linked to another comic ('Doctor Strange appears each month in Strange Tales magazine'). Did I say there were no adverts? The whole comic is one massive advertisement for itself!" – Andrew Rilstone, Listen Bud: The First Great Graphic Novel in American Literature. Unpublished manuscript, p. 188.
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