Steve Ditko Appreciation Thread!

[Sal]

I like them.....indicates where his fist made contact with Electro's jaw in the arc of his swing.

 

find an issue of The Question - I just know for some reason you won't have any difficulty - and note the liberal usage of these things in the fight scenes. i think their use rose to a head in the Blue Beetle stories though.

 

given the way Ditko chose to arrange his combatants, there really needs to be something there, I'm just not thrilled at the choice he made

[Red Hook]

Page 1 of what might be one of the first Mr. A stories, from Witzend #4 1968. Read this and realize that Ditko had left Marvel in a huff a couple of years before.

 

[Red Hook]

Hammer is gonna' meet Mr. A one of these days.

[Sharkey]

Page 1 of what might be one of the first Mr. A stories, from Witzend #4 1968. Read this and realize that Ditko had left Marvel in a huff a couple of years before.

 

You can really see the reflection of Ditko's attraction to the philosophy of objectivism. Mr. A is a poster child for the objectivist view of morality and ethics.

[Red Hook]

No grey, baby, just BLACK & WHITE!

[Sal]

does the "A" stand for AynRand? a man whose super powers are a nigh-omnipotent threshold of selfishness?

 

okay, i'm just kidding.

 

Red's icon looks a lot like Victor Sage to me

[PUNYHUMAN]

Red, I have to agree with everything you said about Ditko!! He is a true Original!! I love his Blue Beetle ,Capt. Atom, Spidey ,& esp. Dr. Strange art . That stuff he did in Strange Tales was completely unique for it's time;Trippy,to say the least!!!

[Mister Trent]

Hi there

 

I have the original artwork for Ditko's covers to CAPTAIN ATOM # 80 and NUKLA # 4, both from 1966, available for viewing on the Comic Art Fans site.

 

Here's a link for anyone interested in seeing how the original art compares against the printed page (look under COMIC-BOOK COVERS Gallery # 1):

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=1865

 

Best

 

TERRY DOYLE

[Sharkey]

Hi there

 

I have the original artwork for Ditko's covers to CAPTAIN ATOM # 80 and NUKLA # 4, both from 1966, available for viewing on the Comic Art Fans site.

 

Here's a link for anyone interested in seeing how the original art compares against the printed page (look under COMIC-BOOK COVERS Gallery # 1):

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=1865

 

Best

 

TERRY DOYLE

 

Terry, your collection of covers is WONDERFUL! Wow, I love that Captain Atom cover, very nice stuff. And the Star Spangled War dino cover is killer too!

[Mister Trent]

Thanks, Steve

 

You have some awesome pieces in your own galleries!

 

Best

 

TERRY

[Sharkey]

We always see the regular Spidey issues. How 'bout them Annuals?

 

 

 

[g-man]

We always see the regular Spidey issues. How 'bout them Annuals?

 

 

 

 

i need a cgc 8.0 or 8.5 of #1!

[Bonds25]

How about this beauty?

 

[Sharkey]

SWEEEEEEET!

[Sharkey]

Here's a couple you don't see quite so often

 

 

 

[Red Hook]

 

Ditko does Wood. Odd. But I like it.

[adamstrange]

[Red Hook]

Thanks! Another rarely seen beaut!

[Sal]

shouldn't that be "the Menace of the Oak Leaves?"

[rjpb]

Great cover- even with the absurdly lame post-code "menace".