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Steve Ditko




Title Creator Publisher Series Price
The Art of Steve Ditko Steve Ditko IDW Publishing $26.95
($29.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		edited by Craig Yoe  <<•>>  As if the above weren't enough, we now also have this oversize cloth hardcover brimming with more classic Ditko art!  Compared to the Fantagraphics volume, the page size is larger and the paper stock seems to us to be a bit brighter and the colors a bit lighter.  This one is divided into a number of thematically organized sections and has a bit more editorial content courtesy of editor Yoe.  While, yes, there is a bit of overlap between the two volumes, it is fairly minimal.  This book spans a greater number of years and presents a wider variety of material and so only a few of the earlier stories are duplicated in the volume listed above.  If your budget limits you to only one volume, we'd have to say go with the Fantagraphics, but, c'mon:  this is classic Ditko we're talking about here. and it's well worth the price, so put if you have to, put it on the back burner for now, but don't forget it's there.
Strange Suspense: The Steve Ditko Archives Volume One Steve Ditko Fantagraphics $34.95
($39.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		edited by Blake Bell  <<•>>  This is it!  The motherload of classic early – and rare! and expensive! (take from us, we know) – Ditko comics from 1953 to 1955 is now available in this readily affordable (well, at least when compared to the originals) 240 page hardcover volume from Fantagraphics Books.  Primarily produced for the then respectable Charlton Comics, but with a handful executed for Prize, Ajax, Gillmor and Timor – these are comics!  Presented here in high quality reproductions taken from full color scans of the original comics, this is how they are meant to be seen.  All we have to say right now is, "Yes, yes, yes! Read these great comics." (OK, we also have to say that all fans of Gilbert Hernandez should be taking an extra hard look at some of the comics contained in this volume, as close examination will reveal that therein lies some of his primal inspiration as a cartoonist.)
The Steve Ditko Reader #Volume 3 Steve Ditko, Greg Theakston Pure Imagination $21.25
($25.00 list)
OUT OF STOCK!
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Read more and comment... 		Speaking of classic comics art, here are some great examples by one of the field's finest: Steve Ditko.  The third volume in the Ditko seriers, which is itself subset of a larger ongoing project by Greg Theakston and Pure Imagination to collect the best comics of the forties and fifties by the greatest creators of those times, including, in addition to Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, Basil Wolverton, Wally Wood, and more to come.  To learn more, visit our Pure Imagination Page. 
Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko Blake Bell, Steve Ditko Fantagraphics $33.99
($39.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Here it is, (many) years in the making:  the long-awaited all-in-one work --  biography, appreciation and coffee-table art book -- on the one and only "sturdy" Steve Ditko.  While best known as co-creator of Spider-Man, his career began in 1953 and spans five decades filled with unique, original and widely influential contributions to the medium of comics.  Fans of his work pretty much have no choice but to rush out and purchase this book immediately or risk losing their hard-earned credentials, but this 200+ page, oversize hardcover volume that is filled cover to cover with amazing full color and B & W art will also serve as an excellent entry point to any and all looking to gain a further appreciation of this amazingly talented and highly eccentric creator. 
Steve Ditko: Edge of Genius Steve Ditko Pure Imagination $19.99
($25.00 list)
OUT OF STOCK!
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Read more and comment... 		Two more fantastic, 160 page, 8 1/2" x 11", volumes from the one and only Pure Imagination Publishing.  The Ditko volume is especially splendiferous for providing readers with a hefty chunk of Ditko's earliest work -- one (his first) from 1953, and a whopping sixteen from 1954.  These stories originally appeared in the pages of such classic titles as Black Magic, Strange Suspense Stories, This Magazine is Haunted, and The Thing.  Also included in the Ditko volume is a freaky bondage tale Ditko co-created with his studio-mate, Eric Stanton, for the infamous Irving Klaw's Movie Star News (best known for its Bettie Page in bondage photos).  We'd never seen this one before.