DITKOMANIA #82
32 pages (counting the covers),
5.5 x 8.5 inches in size[A5/Digest]
black & white.
$1.50 –please contact Rob Imes for full details.
Steve Ditko is,without a doubt,one of the American comic book greats. I know I’d cause more controversy and argument than I want to if I had to state whether he or Jack Kirby were No.1 or No.2 –so I’ll not write anything about that!
Jack Kirby,of course,is subject to analysis,history and reprint in The Jack Kirby Collector. Well,he was The King. Ditko has influenced many artists and particularly those who have worked in black and white comics. Just look at the lush black art work expertly balancing out the white in collections such as Marvel Comics The Essential Dr Strange. Much better to look at Ditko ib black and white –as we had to in UK Alan Class or weekly comic reprints.
An artist covered only partly [due to his wish never to say much or attract publicity!] but as extensively as could be by Blake Bell in the excellent The World Of Steve Ditko. It’s nice to see a zine dedicated to Ditko and my thanks to Rob Imes,editor of Ditko Mania for a copy of the Hallowe’en issue.
Nice fan illustrations and,if you’ve just jumped on board,the editorial gives you a brief history of the mag. Interesting article by Bryan Stroud,”Masks”,which looks at the story focus of Blue Beetle #4 [Charlton] from 1967.
What piqued my curiousity was Jason Sacks article “The Dimensional Man:A New Dimension Of Ditko Horror”. I could not recall Ditko having drawn Dracula for Marvel but Tomb Of Dracula #2 was one of Marvels black and white magazine sized publications from the 1970s. The subject matter is “The Dimensional Man” and the fact that it involved what Sacks calls “…ritual rape by a Cthulu-like creature” of a character. The art reproduced do look great so I’ll be keeping an eye-out in case the mag ever appears at a future comic expo dealers table!
Ceylon Anderson takes a look at “The Door To Yesterday”,from Charltons Haunted #2,1971.
There is even a Steve Ditko book-shelf feature.
This is a fan magazine that can look critically at Ditko’s work and it is nice to see the take of others who have read his work –you can always have your own opinions but a fanzine like this helps you touch base with other fans.
All-in-all,a great fanzine and it won’t cost you an arm and a leg! Give it a try.
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