The month of May will be busy as I am squeezing in most all of Steve Ditko's early Marvel Comics work. That includes his earliest work for the company as well as his later work on fabulous mystery tales with Stan Lee from the pages of Amazing Adult Fantasy and elsewhere. And without a doubt it will include his epic work on both The Amazing Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. Ditko also worked briefly on The Incredible Hulk and The Invincible Iron Man. It is during this era in which Ditko's fame grows with the new fandom which sprang up around the House of Ideas. Even today when most folks who think of Steve Ditko at all, think of his work on Spidey and Doc Strange, if they think of him at all.
Here are the volumes I'll be reading to get this swift overview of Ditko's Marvel output.
And while I'm reading all of that, I'll be watching the 1960's version of the animated Spider-Man series which ran for three seasons, and which brought to the small screen some of Ditko's most delicious villainous designs.
And as has become custom here at the Dojo, I will also be taking a week-long hiatus during May, but more on that later.
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