The Pocket Book Spider-Man!

These three Pocket Book volumes featuring vintage Spidey stories came out from 1977 through 1979 and offered up those choice Lee and Ditko classics in a handy diminutive format. Despite the Johnny Romita covers for the last two volumes all the interiors are vintage Ditko. 

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Marvel Tales Gallery - Part Four!

We wrap up this gallery of Marvel Tales reprints of the classic Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Spider-Man comics. It was very nifty to have these in handy reading form, even if some topical references had been altered by Tom DeFalco, the reprint editor of the series. 

That's wrap on Marvel Tales and Steve Ditko's contribution. 

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Marvel Tales Gallery - PartThree!

In 1982 Marvel Tales editor Tom DeFalco began running Spider-Man stories from the very beginning featuring the earliest adventures by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. The original work was reprinted with some alterations to timely pop culture references. 

That's the first batch. More tomorrow. 

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Marvel Tales Gallery - Part Two!

Beginning with the eleventh issue Marvel Tales began to more greatly feature Spider-Man as the lead in this robust reprint package which also featured the Human Torch, Thor and the Wasp. This was my first look at Steve Ditko's Spider-Man and I was most impressed. Below are more covers in this epic run. 

Most of the covers for Marvel Tales were revised versions of Ditko's originals, but the last three in this run were by Marie Severin who had become something of a cover machine for Marvel at this time. 

This issue featuring a Johnny Romita cover also has Ditko's next to last Spidey tale. 

Spider-Man's sixth annual reprinted his first one featuring the Sinister Six. This is nifty Romita cover. 

The seventh annual featured one of Spider-Man's earliest stories where he battles the Chameleon and the last Ditko issue in which he fights a guy named Joe. 

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More reprints tomorrow. 

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