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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN No. 22 * Steve Ditko Collection Publisher: Marvel [Indicia: Non-Pareil Publishing Group] Date Published: March 1965 Description: CGC certified: Fine- (5.5). 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: Artie Simek. 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 7.5 for $2812 in 12/23. A non-Ditko Collection 5.5 sold for $230 in 2/23. 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 #22: 5.5 and 7.5. Spidey foils an art gallery heist while Ditko mocks the modern art scene. In one panel, a guy admires a Pop art painting of a foot in a ratty old sock, saying "Boy! I wish I could draw feet like that!" Seasoned Spidey fans will recall that ASM #5's editorial page printed a letter from a reader who griped: "One last thing about Ditko's art: he just can't draw feet right!! They look out of shape and flat." Could this mag's foot gag be Ditko's sly response, 17 issues later? Ditko panned abstract art in a 2013 letter to a fan, calling it "a deliberate distortion of man['s]... proper means of comprehending life, the world. I don't get involved in trying to understand someone's nonsense. It's not a valid mystery." (see David Currie's Ditko Shrugged, p. 36). Paradoxically, a rare photo of Ditko's NYC apartment that the artist's family shared with PBA's Director of Comics shows that Ditko's walls were covered with posters of abstract art, including Georges Braque's "Still Life with Playing Cards" and French cubist Amédée Ozenfant's "Still Life with Glass of Red Wine." This begs the question: why would Ditko decorate his pad with the sort of abstract art he held in contempt? It's just one more link in the unbroken chain of mysteries that safeguards the unsolvable puzzle of Steve Ditko. 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#: 357136 Headline: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #22 * CGC 5.5 * DITKO'S COPY * Abstract Art Attack