Comments on: Happy 80th birthday, Steve Ditko http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:27:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Burlov http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-499294 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:25:28 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-499294 Ditko you are a true artistic genius!! Your work will live forever! Ditko you are a true artistic genius!! Your work will live forever!

]]> by: Patrick Dean http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-498817 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:23:12 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-498817 Mark- There was the cover of his last Strange Tales issue with the collaged cover, but has been taken down since my post, making it totally irrelevant. Aw well. Yeah, that JIM cover is all Ditko, ink to paper. Mark- There was the cover of his last Strange Tales issue with the collaged cover, but has been taken down since my post, making it totally irrelevant. Aw well.
Yeah, that JIM cover is all Ditko, ink to paper.

]]> by: Mark Parsons http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-498701 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:05:35 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-498701 The JIM cover predates THOR's debut there by several years, and it therefore also far predates Ditko's post-ASM departure from Marvel. (I do not knwo when Ditko did the Charlton wortk, so maybe he "left" Marvel twice?). The JIM cover predates THOR’s debut there by several years, and it therefore also far predates Ditko’s post-ASM departure from Marvel. (I do not knwo when Ditko did the Charlton wortk, so maybe he “left” Marvel twice?).

]]> by: Tommy http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-497614 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:25:53 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-497614 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. DITKO!! ...and many more. Thanx, Tommy BATMAN FAN? http://www.bat-blog.com HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. DITKO!!
…and many more.

Thanx,
Tommy

BATMAN FAN?
http://www.bat-blog.com

]]> by: Sphinx Magoo http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-495805 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:30:08 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-495805 It's about time something like this book came out. It's been a long time coming. I woulda always loved a regular "Jack Kirby Collector"-styled magazine which only focused on Steve Ditko and his work. Maybe someone over at TwoMorrows will read this... It’s about time something like this book came out. It’s been a long time coming.

I woulda always loved a regular “Jack Kirby Collector”-styled magazine which only focused on Steve Ditko and his work. Maybe someone over at TwoMorrows will read this…

]]> by: Ralph Mathieu http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-495367 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:53:58 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-495367 Happy Birthday Mr. Ditko! Athough I'm pretty sure that Steve Ditko doesn't follow blogs like these (or probably has much to do with anything computer related), I hope he knows how much his art and creations has entertained, awed, and infuenced people. Happy Birthday Mr. Ditko!

Athough I’m pretty sure that Steve Ditko doesn’t follow blogs like these (or probably has much to do with anything computer related), I hope he knows how much his art and creations has entertained, awed, and infuenced people.

]]> by: Patrick Dean http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-495362 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:49:40 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/02/happy-80th-birthday-steve-ditko/#comment-495362 That Strange Tales cover is technically a Ditko cover, but is really the work of a Marvel production assistant using Ditko's work from that issue. This was his last issue and I guess they were going to have a full Dr. Strange cover for the first time. I'm assuming he left Marvel after doing the insides. Same story with Amazing Spider-Man #38. That cover is made up of inside art blown up and arranged to look like a decent comic cover. Charlton did this all the time, but was never really done by Marvel at the time. Again, I'm assuming he split right after the stories themselves were finished since his covers of his last two Marvel books are collages from the inner story. That Strange Tales cover is technically a Ditko cover, but is really the work of a Marvel production assistant using Ditko’s work from that issue. This was his last issue and I guess they were going to have a full Dr. Strange cover for the first time. I’m assuming he left Marvel after doing the insides. Same story with Amazing Spider-Man #38. That cover is made up of inside art blown up and arranged to look like a decent comic cover. Charlton did this all the time, but was never really done by Marvel at the time.

Again, I’m assuming he split right after the stories themselves were finished since his covers of his last two Marvel books are collages from the inner story.

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