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  Steve Ditko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steve Ditko (born 2 November 1927 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is a renowned American comic book artist and writer best known as the co-creator of Spider-Man.
Ditko's tenure on "Dr. Strange" culminated in the introduction, in Strange Tales #146 (July 1966), of Ditko's grand and enduring conception of Eternity, the personification of the universe, depicted as a majestic silhouette whose outlines are filled with the cosmos.
Ditko was a finalist for induction into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1989, and formally inducted in 1990.
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 Talent Pool 10- Steve Ditko (Apr 1999)
Steve Ditko was born among a generation of comics talent from the twenties who got to see the birth and flowering of the superhero comic in its first days in the Golden Age.
Steve Ditko studied at the Cartoonists' and Illustrators' School under Jerry Robinson, one of the earliest hands to depict Batman in the 1940s.
Ditko created the philosophical Mister A as a vehicle for presenting his views on morality, many of which relied on the Premise of the Excluded Middle: Something is either good or bad, never both; something is either right or wrong.
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 Steve Ditko - Uncyclopedia
Steve Ditko is a comic book artist probably best known for creating the character Martian Manhunter with his long time collaborator and rumored lover, Jim Plagman.
Ditko initially declined, considering the idea too commercial a departure from his Eisner Award-winning run on Bondage Fairies.
Ditko's signature watercolors, along with Plagman's keen knowledge of baseball trivia, made the Manhunter a roaring success, spawning two feature length movies, several lines of action figures, and, ultimately, the Manhunter's Martian Waterworld chain of aquatic theme parks.
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 Steve Ditko
Steve Ditko is the artist who first drew the webbed warrior, and Lee and Ditko crafted the character's character -- anxiety, angst and troubled social life -- together, in long collaborative conversations.
Ditko studied art at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School in New York City, and started his career at Charlton Comics, where he drew horror, mystery, and science fiction series with violence that would never pass muster with today's Comics Code Authority.
In the 1970s, Ditko wrote and illustrated several comic books that were plotted around the concepts of "objectivism", as espoused by author/philosopher Ayn Rand.
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 The religion of Steve Ditko, comic book artist
Steve Ditko, or "Steverino," as cheeky Stan Lee often referred to him in what must have been a good-natured jibe, so impossible is it to reconcile the reclusive, sanctimonious, hard-line Objectivist, Fritz Lang-in-flannel figure of Ditko with this sobriquet...
Ditko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1927 to a family of Slavic descent.
As a result, Steve Ditko, the master of drawing angst-ridden everymen and gritty urban environments, was brought in to illustrate this new, experimental series.
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 The amazing Steve Ditko - Salon
A cross-section of Ditko's early- to mid-'60s work is reprinted in the new hardcover collection "Steve Ditko: Marvel Visionaries." His artwork is often crude and unpretty on its surface: understated and flat, full of crabbed, ugly characters.
Ditko drew the first 38 issues of "The Amazing Spider-Man," the foundation on which every Spider-Man story since then has been built.
Over and over, though, there are images of weirdly shaped portals through which even weirder planes of existence can be seen, and the implication is that the rectangles on the printed page act as the same sort of portal for the reader.
dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2005/06/03/ditko/index.html   (798 words)

  
 Bookshelf Comics Review: Steve Ditko: Marvel Visionaries
The difference between guys like Ditko and me is that when you’re in their world, you don’t have to look around and see which part of it reminds you of them: buildings, figures, storytelling, everything about them is distinctive.
The book then moves to the character Ditko is most famous for co-creating: Spider-Man. What is particularly enjoyable about this book is that it reprints classics as well as stories that are some of his less well known and/or rarely reprinted.
Steve Welch is an avid collector of pre-hero and Silver Age Marvel comics as well as original art by Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, and other notable creators.
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 Ditko Comics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unfortunately, after the interesting set-up the story kind of veers off into a less interesting sci-fi twist ending, where it turns out the creative chair-builder is in fact an alien in disguise investigating humanity, and his chairs are spy robots.
Steve Englehart writes, Steve Ditko pencils and Steve Leialoha inks, hence the "All-Steve Squad".
Ditko does a great job on a lot of the settings and action scenes, and Leialoha is probably one of the three or four best inkers Ditko ever had, so it really is nice to look at.
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 Is This Tomorrow? - Steve Ditko Part 2
Ditko soon left DC, supposedly because he was having problems with his eyesight, though he reportedly had more problems with editorial interference on his work.
Ditko continued to do work on a number of minor series at DC, and at the end of the decade also returned to Marvel to work on such titles as Machine Man and Micronauts.
Ditko's real creative energies seem to be reserved for more political works, as well as a number of cryptic, Rand-inspired essays which have seen print over the years.
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 Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Artist Biographies - Steve Ditko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
From the start Steve was a feature cover artist and his first effort for them appears on the cover of issue #12.
This cover was no less violent than the issues preceding it, and Steve's drawing depicted women having their blood withdrawn from their bodies by long toothed vampiresses.
Unfortunately however at the same time that his Marvel characters were big stars as was Steve, his relationship with Stan Lee began to drive a wedge between Steve and Marvel and in the summer of 1966 with the July issues of Spidey and Strange Tales, he left Marvel.
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 The Steve Ditko Reader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This truth is nowhere better displayed than in the compilation, The Steve Ditko Reader, amassed by comics historian extraordinaire Greg Thomaston.
Ditko is largely remembered so fondly because of his style of art.
The Steve Ditko Reader is suggested for anyone who enjoys simple, straightforward comic book entertainment, as well as those interested in the history of the genre.
www.rambles.net /ditko_reader02.html   (245 words)

  
 Is This Tomorrow? - Steve Ditko
Panel One: Steve Ditko was born November 2, 1927 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and developed an interest in comic books as a youngster.
Ditko was soon producing artwork for a number of mostly second and third string comic companies.
Ditko now refuses to do interviews or make public appearance, but in the 60s, he did at least one interview via mail for a zine and attended one of the first comic book conventions.
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 Ditko Click The Steve Ditko Logo To Continue!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Steve Ditko (born 2 November 1927 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is a renowned.
It was undoubtedly a cold winter day when Steve Ditko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on November 2, 1927.
And the characters he helped create there, Steve Ditko remains one of the most talked about and controversial early days of Marvel knows Ditko as the co-creator (with Stan.
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 What's going on with Steve Ditko? - The Superhero Hype! Boards
Ditko wanted more creative control of Spider-Man, and he didn't like some of the directions the stories were going.
Ditko wanted the Goblin to end up being just some no-name guy off the street to illustrate that evil can come from anywhere, but Stan went with the Norman Osborn concept instead.
Ditko also was a proponent of more fl-and-white good vs evil storylines, where Stan wanted to get Spidey involved in some of the societal controversies of the current times (mid-1960's).
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 Amazon.com: Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko: Books: Stan Lee,Steve Ditko,Bill Mantlo,Michael Fleisher,Tom DeFalco,Roger ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At his best, Steve Ditko's artwork was initially deceivingly pedestrian...only to later take the reader through twists and turns into wonderfully strange and haunting worlds.
While the likes of Jack Kirby made everything grandiose and larger than life, much of Ditko's charm was his knack for being able to take the most mundane situations and render them with an artist's eye than seldom failed to captivate the reader.
Ditko left a deep impression on me when I was young, and his work is one of the things from my youth that I still enjoy greatly now that I'm deep into middle age.
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 Static: Steve Ditko's Battle of Ideas
It has often been said that Steve Ditko's work hit a peak in the 1950s, with his horror work, or in the 60s, with Spider-Man--but after that, he went downhill; he didn't care any more; he just hacked it out; etc., etc.
Ditko, through his characters, distinguished between the initiation of force and self-defense (retaliatory force).
Steve Ditko presents, in his work, a view of life and of man that actually encourages a person to do better.
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 Metroactive Books | Steve Ditko
This origin story was co-written by cartoonist Steve Ditko, and you wonder what he'd think of Uncle Ben's admonition today.
Ditko, Spider-Man's reclusive co-creator, has been called the "J.D. Salinger of comics." The Los Angeles Times' Jordan Raphael recently profiled Ditko, who, as usual, refused to talk to the media.
Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin delivers a speech to Spider-Man that goes something like, "There are 8 million people out there, and their purpose is to hold people like us up." But faced with a choice between surrogate fathers--Dafoe's wealthy Norman Osborn and humble Uncle Ben--Parker makes the choice that helps the most people.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.06.02/ditko-0223.html   (832 words)

  
 Steve Ditko Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Doctor Strange is mankind's only hope against the dark other-worldly forces that conspire to steal the life of the conscious world - forces such as Baron Mordo, the Dread Dormammu, Nightmare, Aggamon, The House of Shadows, Loki, the...
Before the Creeper, before Hawk and Dove, even before co-creating Spider-Man, one-of-a-kind comic book artist/writer Steve Ditko illustrated his first super hero; the Cold War adventures of the nuclear-powered CAPTAIN ATOM.
But when a teenager sneaks onto the test site grounds on a dare, Banner risks his life to save young Rick Jones, and is caught in the blast as a result.
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 Steve Ditko, Spider-man, Amazing Fantasy
Born in 1927, comics legend Steve Ditko has added much to that wealth of imagination.
That Ditko's distinctive style is seldom plagiarized is tribute to the power and singleness of his vision and art.
Ditko also drew for various Warren magazines including Creepy (1966-'68), Witzend (1969-'70), and created the philosophical character "Mr.
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 DITKO LOOKED UP - Main Checklist Page
First is the alphabetical list, in which every comic Ditko has ever appeared is included; original or reprint.
Reprints are clearly marked as such, plus everything relating to said issue is in italics.
Third is the chronological one, tracing Ditko's work year-by-year in two parts; originals and reprints.
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 Vanguard Productions presents STEVE DITKO: Space Wars, Vanguard Productions, CreativeMix.Com
The young cartoonist, Steve Ditko, honed his storytelling skills throughout the '50s on mystery, horror, and some of the farthest-out sci-fi comics of all time.
Steve Ditko: Space Wars collects a wealth of the artist's finest work prior to his world-shaking creation with Stan Lee, Spider-Man!
The record-breaking box office hit Spider-Man began with the credit, "Based on the comic-book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko." Ditko is the most mysterious man in comic-book history; he refuses to make personal appearances, refuses to be photographed, and refuses to be interviewed.
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 Steve Ditko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Now Marvel is celebrating Ditko with an oversized hardcover collecting a wide range of his work, from his pre-Spidey monster stories to Speedball.
The Steve Ditko Reader (Pure Imagination; The Thing 13-14, Space Adventures 11, Mystic Tales 45, Out of This World 4, 6 This Magazine is Haunted 12, 14, Unusual Tales 9, 15, Strange Suspense Stories 34, 48,, Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds 7, Tales of the Mysterious Traveler 7, Outer Spa).
Steve Ditko: Space Wars (Series Charlton; collection Vanguard; stories from Space Adventures 11, 27, 31-32; Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds 3, 7; Strange Suspense Stories 31, 35-36; Out of This World 4, 6, 8-9; Unusual Tales 8-9, 15, 23, 29; Space War 6).
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 YOUR DICTIONARY - Steve Ditko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Steve Ditko is one of the greatest comic book artists, illustrating some of the best and most influential publications of the '50s and '60s.
Although he did not create the actual Spider-Man costume, Steve gave the definitive look for the cast of characters, such as Peter Parker, Aunt May, Jonah Jameson, Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus and the Vulture.
One of the characters Ditko created was Mr.
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 Captain Atom by Steve Ditko, DC Archives
By Steve Ditko, Joe Gill, and Rocke Mastroserio.
At the same time that Steve Ditko was winning praise for Marvel Comics Spider-Man and Dr.
Ditko honed his storytelling skills throughout the '50s on mystery, horror, and some of the spaciest sci-fi comics of all time!
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 Steve Ditko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Steve Ditko (born 2 November 1927 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is a renowned comic book artist and writer best known as the co-creator of Spider-Man.
He created (or co-created, according to some) the superhero characters of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange for Marvel with writer and editor Stan Lee.
After a run of four years on the title, Ditko is believed to have had a falling out with Lee and left the company.
spiderman.ugo.com /characters/creators/steve-ditko   (566 words)

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