This part of the documentary covers Ditko after he left Marvel. I really liked a lot of his stories for ultra-cheapie publisher Charlton, in Derby, CT. They were reminiscent of his mystery stories at Marvel before the return of super-hero comics in ‘61-’62.
2 comments September 26th, 2007
That’s Jazzy Johnny Romita in the preview frame. He took over drawing The Amazing Spider-Man in 1966, after Steve Ditko abruptly quit the book and left Marvel Comics. Ditko returned to Marvel later, but he never drew Spider-Man again.
2 comments September 25th, 2007
Before there was Dr. Strangelove, there was … Dr. Strange!
1 comment September 25th, 2007
That’s Fabulous Flo Steinberg, Marvel’s Corresponding Secretary, and cancer survivor, in the preview frame.
Add comment September 24th, 2007
The links to the BBC program by Jonathan Ross, In Search of Steve Ditko that I discuss here have been pulled from YouTube. The customized YouTube player is very impressive, because it supports play lists and presents them in a very slick way. But alas, my attempts at adding play lists to the Flash video player haven’t gone well. So I’ll post the Ditko documentary in separate installments. This is a tiny 320×240 video, and letterboxed at that, scaled up to 440×330.
3 comments September 24th, 2007