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The “32 Series” was the last major project of Steve Ditko’s career, starting in 2008 and ending with his death in 2018. This body of work covers over 900 pages of new material, originally published in 27 32-page comic books. All material of the “32 Series” has been collected in five volumes, published by SD…
This collection offers a fresh insight into the mind of innovative writer and artist, Steve Ditko. Part I collects all nine issues of The Four-Page Series, a newsletter he originally published between 2012 and 2015. Essay topics include flawed thinking and misbehavior of some comic book fans; choice, rationality, logic, emotion and the nature of…
After several years of illustrating Captain Atom, Spider-Man, Dr. Strange… Mystery, crime, superhero, SF, western for Charlton, Marvel, National… Steve Ditko carved a new trail in the comics landscape. Completely independently, he wrote, illustrated, and in some cases self-published the material in this book. We present The Collected Mr. A., Volume II: Avenging World.
This book reprints the contents of Steve Ditko’s 176 Page Package, originally published in 2000, with the exception of a 30-page story, “Mr. A. Faces the Knifer.” For some stories contained herein, Ditko created new characters. For other stories, he brought back characters he’d created previously. This powerful collection is a fine example of Ditko’s…
Steve Ditko’s lengthy career extended from visionary science fiction, causality-flaunting fantasy, and heinously hideous horror… -to a superabundance of superheroes: Captain Atom, Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, The Incredible Hulk, The Creeper, Hawk and Dove, The Question, Blue Beetle, Shade the Changing Man, Superboy, Indiana Jones, Rom, Machine Man… -to conceiving, creating, and publishing a galaxy of…
This is a chronicle of the professional working relationship and personal friendship between Rodney Schroeter and William Messner-Loebs. Schroeter wrote a comic book and hired Messner-Loebs to illustrate it, a project of six years. Messner-Loebs and his wife had previously lost their home, their personal effects going into storage lockers. Years later, with rents long…
Here is the 80th anniversary publication of one of the first books ever written about the comics, by The Most Imaginative Writer in the Comics. Who has a one-of-a-kind story to tell. Which is just the beginning, the opening chapter in The Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt.
