CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). 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 4.5 sold for $145 in 6/22. A Ditko Collection 8.0 sold for $3120 in 9/21. 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 #24: 4.5 and 8.0. This ish reads like a retread of Amazing Spider-Man #13, in which Mysterio tried to gaslight Spidey into losing his marbles. Stan Lee co-plotted ASM #13, whereas Steve Ditko plotted this ish by himself. Maybe Ditko thought there were flaws in the first story, and here was his chance to correct them? "Two stories where Spider-Man doubts his sanity; two psychiatrists; two sets of illusions done by Mysterio. Did Lee and Ditko think of Mysterio as 'that villain who sends people mad' (in the way that Doctor Octopus was fast becoming 'that villain who kidnaps aunts')? Did they look back on the 'psychiatrist' episode in issue #13 and think 'we could have done more with that, let’s revisit it'? Or had Ditko always intended 'The Menace of Mysterio' to have been mostly about a villain gas-lighting Spider-Man, and been forced by Lee to put in a big fight scene? Is 'Spider-Man Goes Mad' essentially just 'The Menace of Mysterio' rewritten according to Ditko’s original intentions?" — Andrew Rilstone, Listen Bud: The First Great Graphic Novel in American Literature. Unpublished manuscript, p. 264. Enjoying the Spidey Sale? Order a fully-illustrated softcover catalogue for 30 bucks. Only about 100 copies were printed and they're going fast. To reserve a copy, contact PBA's Director of Comics: [email protected] Consign to PBA Galleries. Our comic sales average a 98% sell-through rate, our prices realized are top-of-the-market, and our research-intensive catalogues are the best in the business. Seeking Silver Age Marvel, Golden Age superheroes, and pre-Code horror. Contact [email protected]
CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). 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 4.5 sold for $145 in 6/22. A Ditko Collection 8.0 sold for $3120 in 9/21. 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 #24: 4.5 and 8.0. This ish reads like a retread of Amazing Spider-Man #13, in which Mysterio tried to gaslight Spidey into losing his marbles. Stan Lee co-plotted ASM #13, whereas Steve Ditko plotted this ish by himself. Maybe Ditko thought there were flaws in the first story, and here was his chance to correct them? "Two stories where Spider-Man doubts his sanity; two psychiatrists; two sets of illusions done by Mysterio. Did Lee and Ditko think of Mysterio as 'that villain who sends people mad' (in the way that Doctor Octopus was fast becoming 'that villain who kidnaps aunts')? Did they look back on the 'psychiatrist' episode in issue #13 and think 'we could have done more with that, let’s revisit it'? Or had Ditko always intended 'The Menace of Mysterio' to have been mostly about a villain gas-lighting Spider-Man, and been forced by Lee to put in a big fight scene? Is 'Spider-Man Goes Mad' essentially just 'The Menace of Mysterio' rewritten according to Ditko’s original intentions?" — Andrew Rilstone, Listen Bud: The First Great Graphic Novel in American Literature. Unpublished manuscript, p. 264. Enjoying the Spidey Sale? Order a fully-illustrated softcover catalogue for 30 bucks. Only about 100 copies were printed and they're going fast. To reserve a copy, contact PBA's Director of Comics: [email protected] Consign to PBA Galleries. Our comic sales average a 98% sell-through rate, our prices realized are top-of-the-market, and our research-intensive catalogues are the best in the business. Seeking Silver Age Marvel, Golden Age superheroes, and pre-Code horror. Contact [email protected]
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