CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: STEVE DITKO'S 'RETURN' TO THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN...

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

STEVE DITKO'S 'RETURN' TO THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN...

At last! Sturdy STEVE DITKO's original, 'unpublished' cover for AMAZING FANTASY #15 is finally about to see print on The AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #700. It has actually been published before though, first on the back of MARVELMANIA #2 in 1970 (in black & white), and then as a full colour pin-up on the back cover of The MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL #2 in 1972.

Since then it's also appeared in various publications, including on or in the back pages of The OFFICIAL MARVEL INDEX To The AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1, plus MARVEL TALES, MARVEL MASTERWORKS and OMNIBUS Spidey volumes. (What's with all those back cover or back-of-the-book appearances?)

This time, though, it's finally fulfilled its destiny - as the front (variant) cover of an actual Spider-Man comic. Hoorah!

2 comments:

Nick Caputo said...: It's nice to see this as a front cover, but the colors are ghastly! The coloring on the British version was much better.; 13 December 2012 at 18:16
Kid said...: Hi Nick. I suspect that the colouring will be more 'subdued' on the published version. Nice to see it as a front cover at last 'though.; 13 December 2012 at 19:53

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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