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Amazing Spider-Man #35
April, 1966

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In many cases when a cover was changed at the last minute, the first version would already have been shot and a stat or negative had been filed away.  Later, when it came time to supply reproduction materials for the foreign editions, those stats might get used, often without anyone realizing it wasn't the final version.  As a result, the foreign editions of some comics show us how things looked before the editorial changes.

Case in point: Amazing Spider-Man #35.  The alternate version (sorry it's so blurry) shows the cover as originally drawn by Steve Ditko.  Apparently, Stan decided the hero's pose was awkward so he had a patch job done before the book was printed in America.  The image above shows how it looked on U.S. newsstands, and the Spider-Man figure appears to have been drawn by Jack Kirby and inked by Sol Brodsky.  I don't know why Spider-Man has two left feet, either.  But it's yet another case of Kirby doing a redraw of Ditko's Spider-Man.