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Title: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL No. 1
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Publisher:Marvel [Indicia: Non-Pareil Publishing Group]
Date Published: [September], 1964
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CGC certified: VG/Fine (5.0). White pages. Not cleaned and pressed. 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. GPAnalysis: A 5.0 sold for $2280 in 7/22.

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 Unpublished manuscript, p. 188.

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