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NEWS: Steve Ditko Archives Volume 4: Impossible Tales – A Sneak Preview

Behold the new cover to the fourth volume of The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics). From the Fantagraphics exclusive page: Ditkophiles rejoice! A fourth heaping helping of Steve Ditko’s classic suspense and horror work from the 1950s is on its way to … Continue reading

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Steve Ditko’s Amazing Spider-man #12 Cover….Lego Style!

Leonel Castellani has produced a great lego version of Steve Ditko’s classic Amazing Spider-man #12 cover. It is to feature as a variant on the new Mighty Avengers #1. Below is the lego variant compared with the original: Image sourced … Continue reading

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Locke & Key Alpha #2: Dave Sim does Steve Ditko’s Amazing Spider-man #29

For the second issue of Locke & Key: Alpha writer and artist Dave Sim (well-known for his Cerebus series) was asked to contribute a variant cover. What he came up with was a Steve Ditko inspired homage to 29th issue … Continue reading

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Jailbroken Amazon Kindle now showing Steve Ditko screensavers

Was having some fun last night Jailbreaking my Amazon Kindle; a process that allows you to customize the software. I decided to change the screensavers to some Ditko art. What do you think?

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Original Art: Ghostly Haunts #27 (Cover, 1972) (Charlton)

Click image for hi-res view. Currently up for sale with Heritage Auctions – click to view.

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INFO: Amazing Spider-man #700 – Steve Ditko Variant – beginning to sell for crazy $$$$$$$$$

The Steve Ditko variant cover – reprinting the original Amazing Fantasy #15 art – of Amazing Spider-man #700 (used as a retailer incentive) is beginning to sell for large amounts of money. As bleedingcool has begun to cover, a recent … Continue reading

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News: The Steve Ditko Archives Volume 4: Impossible Tales details revealed!

Author Blake Bell has just released details to the upcoming volume of the Steve Ditko Archives series (volume 4) which is subtitled “Impossible Tales”. From Blake Bell’s blog: I’m scanning like a Mad Man this weekend for the upcoming volume; … Continue reading

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NEWS: Steve Ditko’s original Amazing Fantasy #15 artwork to be printed

Steve Ditko’s original Amazing Fantasy #15 cover (as shown above and next to Stan Lee) is going to be reprinted as part of a new line of covers for Marvel’s comic revamp titled Marvel NOW! It was made public by … Continue reading

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Miscellaneous: An Interview with Alan Class

Stare at the image below and most of you will realize that it isn’t the original cover that once appeared in the United States. That is because that cover was licensed for distribution within England by a UK publisher of … Continue reading

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Ditko Cover of the Week (#20) – Racket Squad in Action #12

A very early and overlooked Steve Ditko cover from Charlton Comics. Series: Racket Squad in Action Issue Number: 12 Publisher: Charlton Comics Year of Publication: 1954 Inker: Unknown (image from Ditko-fever.com) 

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Ditko Cover of the Week (#7) – The Thing #12

To Celebrate Steve Ditko’s 84th birthday this ‘Cover of the Week’ is an extra special one! Done in February 1954 for Charlton comics, The Thing #12 was  Steve Ditko’s first cover he ever had published. This formed the foundation for … Continue reading

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Ditko Cover of The Week (#3) – Nukla #4

For this weeks “Ditko Cover of the Week” I introduce you to Nukla #4: Series: Nukla Issue Number: 4 Publisher: Dell Comics Year of Publication: 1966 Inker: Sal Trapani Interesting information: This is the only cover Steve Ditko did for … Continue reading

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