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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN No. 34 * Steve Ditko Collection Publisher: Marvel [Indicia: Non-Pareil Publishing Group] Date Published: March 1966 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: 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: PBA sold a Ditko Collection 7.0 for $2812 in 12/22. Heritage sold a Ditko Collection 6.5 for $2160 in 9/21. A non-Ditko Collection 5.5 sold for $181 in 6/23. 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 three Ditko Collection copies of ASM #34: 5.5, 6.5 and 7.0. Kraven the Hunter returns, bringing with him, some readers claim, a homoerotic subtext (see lot 246). With that in mind, let's peek under the covers and read between the lines: Betty Brant has a nightmare in which Peter Parker rips his shirt open to reveal his Spidey suit. Betty awakes in a panic, puzzled as to the meaning of her dream, asking herself "[What] Peter's secret is... [what] he's hiding from me." Meanwhile, as Spidey tussles with Kraven, Gwen Stacy considers Pete's apparent immunity to her feminine charms: "It's strange! Peter Parker is the ONLY boy who hasn't paid any attention to me!" The story concludes with Pete agonizing over the secret he dares not reveal, and trying to accept that a girlfriend may not be in the cards for a guy like him: "Am I afraid of her reaction when she learns of the SECRET I've kept from her all these years? ...It's useless! I've got to learn to ACCEPT things as they are!" 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#: 357146 Headline: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #34 * CGC 5.5 * DITKO'S COPY * Spidey's Secret Self