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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL No. 1 * Steve Ditko Collection Publisher: Marvel [Indicia: Non-Pareil Publishing Group] Date Published: [September] 1964 Description: CGC certified: VG- (3.5). Off-white to 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: PBA sold a Ditko Collection 3.5 for $5937 in 12/22. A non-Ditko Collection 3.5 sold for $967 in 5/23. 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 was featured in PBA's 12/22 "Spidey Sale, Including the Steve Ditko Collection Part One"; an incomplete set of 23 Ditko Collection Spidey comics was offered in 2021 by Heritage; and a final incomplete set of 19 Ditko Collection Spidey comics is offered in this sale. Ditko Collection Census: There are two Ditko Collection copies of ASM Annual #1: 3.5 and 3.5. This is the highest-graded copy, with slightly better page quality than the other (which has cream to off-white pages). 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 Unpublished manuscript, p. 188. A limited edition of ten hardcover catalogues is available, in addition to a few dozen softcovers. Fun reference, great keepsake, fully illustrated, chockablock with obscure facts, gags, bon mots. Softcovers are $40, deluxe hardcovers with dust jackets and limitation plates are $200. These books always go fast so don't delay. To order, contact ivan@pbagalleries.com. Consignments welcome for PBA's Fall 2023 Comic Book sale. Top prices for Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age, Silver Age, original art and ephemera. Find out why PBA is the new fan-fave of funnybook fiends. "This is some of the best commentary I've yet seen on the quality of the content of comic books... Priceless." — R. Crumb. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com. Coming soon: The DC Universe Collection, featuring over 40,000 comics, comprising every comic book published by DC for retail sale between 1934 and 2014. Contact ivan@pbagalleries.com to get on the notifications list. Item#: 357147 Headline: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1 * CGC 3.5 * DITKO'S COPY