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Title: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN No. 44
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Publisher:Marvel [Indicia: Non-Pareil Publishing Group]
Date Published: January, 1967
Description:

CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). Off-white to white pages. Not cleaned and pressed. Cover: John Romita pencils and inks, Stan Goldberg colors. Story: Stan Lee and John Romita. Art: John Romita. Lettering: Sam Rosen. GPAnalysis: A 4.5 sold for $195 in 8/22.

Doc Curt Connors, who concocted a special serum to restore his missing arm and became the Lizard in ASM #5, has the first of many relapses. Spidey's own arm gets banged up while fighting his scaly foe, and the book ends with Peter Parker hating himself: "What's WRONG with me? Why do things work OUT this way? When will I come to my senses and stop bucking FATE... and give up being SPIDER-MAN forever?!!" And thus begins Spidey's Stan-mandated backslide into endless neurotic self-scourging, a negation of the hard-earned character development of the Ditko era.

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