How "important" is ASM33? "If this be my destiny!"

[goldust40]

If the issue has such significance, is there any reason the CGC labels don't have any commentary? It also appears the selling prices are still pretty low below the very high grade ones...

 

It's a common book, even in NM. Warehouse find...

[Unca Ben]

If the issue has such significance, is there any reason the CGC labels don't have any commentary? It also appears the selling prices are still pretty low below the very high grade ones...

 

It's a common book, even in NM. Warehouse find...

 

FF 48 & 51 are considered classics as well and there are no CGC commentaries (story wise) on those, either. Although they (FF 48 & 51) do contain first appearances which are noted.

[Unca Ben]

...it's weird, I know, a book is emotionally valued & beloved because of actual story content and not because of a first appearance, label number, or resale value.

-and not that possessing a high grade copy of this book would be a bad thing...

 

P.S: the above comment(s) directed at no one; I just like talking to myself

[ivrimark]

"I'll be 11 years old again back in 1967 and there's not much in this life better than that."

[sassemble]

 

I started in comics long after Ditko left Marvel and wasn't impressed by his style in the Marvel Tales reprints. I liked Romita's Spidey much better. I always thought Ditko's art was better with Dr. Strange.

Years later as an adult and trying to buy as many older Spideys as I could within my meager budget, I read them again and now have a respect for his art.

But the issue that totally changed my mind about Ditko on Spidey was ASM #33. It is probably the best performance of his career. He took it the next level. From the cover to the large panel of him lifting the heavy metal, he nailed it.

If Stan gave Romita an issue of Spidey for inspiration, it had to be #33!

[Unca Ben]

The one-panel page 5 is the first and only time Ditko used a non-page-one splash in a regular issue of ASM.

[trmoore54]

The one-panel page 5 is the first and only time Ditko used a non-page-one splash in a regular issue of ASM.

 

He picked a good one!!