The Amazing Spider-Man 1963 #38 Regular Edition - 4.5 - $89.00

Average Joe, Joe Smith, fails at being a fighter and tries his hand at acting. Dressed up as a robotic monster, he is zapped with electricity and chemicals which causes him to go on a violent spree against those who doubted his abilities. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn puts a price on Spider-Man?s head and our hero is plagued with goons trying to bump him off. Pete narrowly misses meeting Mary Jane.

On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

• Just a Guy Named Joe! - Cover consists of panels from interior story including Page 7; panel 6, page 12; panel 4, page 15; panel 1 and a blow-up of the Spider-Man figure from page 13; panel 5. Ditko apparently left Marvel before completing a cover for the story.
• Treasure Chest of Fun - Inside front cover. Ad for a variety of novelty items.
• Just a Guy Named Joe! - Steve Ditko's last Spider-Man story. Ditko reportedly turned in his last art for Marvel the last week of November 1965.
• - House ad for Fantastic Four # 52, Marvel Tales # 3 and Marvel Collectors' Item Classics # 3.
• Incredible, Indubitable, Interminable Items to Startle Your Senses and Soothe Your Soul! - Bulletins; The Mighty Marvel Checklist; list of 26 M.M.M.S. members.
• - Ad for stationery, a Spider-Man t-shirt, a Hulk sweater and a six foot tall pin-up of Spider-Man.
• - Letters from Randy Barron, Cary Burkett, "No, we didn't forget the writer's name and address!", Irene Yono, Richard K. von Fossen, Eric Beringer, Marilyn Morgan, Pvt. R. Stewart, H. Doyle Abernathy, Bob Peltz. The page also includes a membership form for the Merry Marvel Marching Society.
• - Inside back cover. Ad for fishing equipment.
• - Back cover. Ad for the Famous Artists Schools.