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Title: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN No. 22
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Publisher:Marvel [Indicia: Non-Pareil Publishing Corp.]
Date Published: March, 1965
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CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). Green Label (Qualified). Coupon cut out of page 15, does not affect story. INCOMPLETE. Off-white to white pages.Cover: Steve Ditko. Story and art: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko. GPAnalysis: A Green Label (Qualified) 4.5 sold for $83 in 2013.

As Spidey foils an art gallery heist, Lee and Ditko use the occasion to mock the modern art scene. In one panel, Ditko depicts a gallery patron admiring a painting of a man's foot in a sock with the big toe poking out, and the patron says "Boy! I wish I could draw feet like that!" Attentive Spidey fans may recall that ASM #5's lettercol featured a comment from a reader who said: "One last thing about Ditko's art: he just can't draw feet right!! They look out of shape and flat." Is this Ditko's sly rebuttal, 17 issues later?

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