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Title: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN No. 109
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Publisher:Marvel [Indicia: Magazine Management Co., Inc.]
Date Published: June, 1971
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CGC certified: VF+ (8.5). Off-white pages. Not cleaned and pressed. Cover: John Romita pencils and inks. Story: Stan Lee and John Romita. John Romita pencils and inks, Tony Mortellaro backgrounds. Lettering: Artie Simek. GPAnalysis: An 8.5 sold for $240 in 3/22.

Flash Thompson, caught in a Vietnam War flashback, dwells upon guilty thoughts of American complicity: "Maybe it's only RIGHT – that I give up my LIFE! Maybe – someone HAS to die – to make up for all we've DONE to them! We didn't MEAN it! We NEVER mean it! But what good does THAT do?"

John Romita used this ish as an opportunity to pay homage to one of his artistic idols, Terry and the Pirates creator Milt Caniff: "I am a comic book artist because of Caniff, and I am not alone in that.... The huge chauffeur was modeled on Terry's Big Stoop, and with the beautiful Vietnamese girl the story was all Caniff! I was back in my dream world." – John Romita's afterword, Marvel Masterworks Vol. 122: The Amazing Spider-Man No.s 100-109. Marvel: 2009, p. 237.

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