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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN No. 21 * Steve Ditko Collection Publisher: Marvel [Indicia: Non-Pareil Publishing Group] Date Published: February 1965 Description: CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). 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 5.5 for $3125 in 12/22. A non-Ditko Collection 4.5 sold for $157 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 #21: 4.5 and 5.5. This ish contains what one Ditko fan has called an "ur-Ditko panel" for its haiku-like distillation of three of Ditko's prime visual motifs: "hyperextended hands, floating heads, and tingle lines." "The dominant emotion in Ditko's pre-'66 work is anxiety. It isn't known whether Ditko invented the quivering pen strokes best known as Spider-Man's 'spider-sense,' which I think of as tingle lines, but he certainly perfected them. You could be forgiven for thinking these lines easy to duplicate, but try drawing them for yourself. Yours will never look like Ditko's, while Ditko's are always unmistakably his. After his hands, these tingle lines are his visual signature. "Ditko is also fond of floating heads. In Spider-Man, the heads are often a Greek Chorus of kibitzing New Yorkers, stirred up by J. Jonah Jameson's editorials and sounding off on Spider-Man." — Andrew Hultkrans, "Steve Ditko's Hands," Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! Writers on Comics. Pantheon: 2004, pp. 223-224. 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#: 357135 Headline: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #21 * CGC 4.5 * DITKO'S COPY * The Hands of Ditko