Famous Illustrator Steve Ditko R.I.P.

[Ned]

Perhaps a little off topic here, but the great illustrator Steve Ditko passed away last week at the age of 90.

Maybe not quite as famous or well known as his contemporaries like Jack "King" Kirby or Carmine Infantino, but a true talent none the less.

Ditko will always be remembered as co-creator of both Spiderman & Doctor Strange during the heyday of Marvel comics. Their peak goes hand & hand with the garage era.

Ned

 

[Frantic]

Perhaps a little off topic here, but the great illustrator Steve Ditko passed away last week at the age of 90.

Maybe not quite as famous or well known as his contemporaries like Jack "King" Kirby or Carmine Infantino, but a true talent none the less.

Ditko will always be remembered as co-creator of both Spiderman & Doctor Strange during the heyday of Marvel comics. Their peak goes hand & hand with the garage era.

Ned

Growing up I always loved Kirby & Ditko. Kirby was always my fave but there was a few years there that Ditko may have been the best ever! The Doc Strange movie didn't come close to capturing the coolness of Ditko's Strange.

 

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are you shitting me!?!?

 

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sheee-it

 

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[chas_kit]

Hand in hand is right. I was lucky enough to start collecting back issues circa 1979, when I could pick up Amazing Spider Man from issue 42 on for only $3 or $4 each in NM condition. Back then I couldn't find reprints except small paperbacks with the earliest issues. RIP Ditko.

 

[beccabear67]

I had a couple of those papaerbacks from the late '70s and they were really great reading on a long bus ride to So Cal from Canada. I too could buy nice '60s comics for as little as $2 from an otherwise non-descript looking used bookshop in the early '80s, but Spider-Man was hard to find even then; I think I only ever had five Ditko issues and one was really beat (lessee, #21, 23, 31, 33, 36, still remember the numbers... and much later I got an Annual #1 in some sort of weird trade). I had more Dr. Strange and a paperback reprint book of him as well... so cool he appeared on that second Pink Floyd LP cover (and on the poster for the first Mime benefit event at that Longshoreman's Hall in SF before I was born)! I just got into buying some 40cent price Machine Man comics by Steve Ditko and am enjoying them quite a bit so far, only had one of them at the time. I must've quit reading comics for over twenty years but lately in some weird mid-life crisis Iv'e been pulled back in and enjoying the heck out of getting those '70s issues I may've seen but didn't buy or just missed completely as the bale with it in didn't hit a spinner-rack I haunted with bottle return coins in hand.