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.
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.
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.