This part of the documentary covers Ditko after he left Marvel. I really liked a lot of his stories for ultra-cheapie publisher Charlton, in Derby, CT. They were reminiscent of his mystery stories at Marvel before the return of super-hero comics in ’61-’62.
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That’s Jazzy Johnny Romita in the preview frame. He took over drawing The Amazing Spider-Man in 1966, after Steve Ditko abruptly quit the book and left Marvel Comics. Ditko returned to Marvel later, but he never drew Spider-Man again.
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Before there was Dr. Strangelove, there was … Dr. Strange!
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Thanks go to Heidi MacDonald over at The Beat, the Publisher’s Weekly comics blog, for linking to my re-mastered Merry Marvel Marching Society records.
That’s Fabulous Flo Steinberg, Marvel’s Corresponding Secretary, in the preview frame.
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The BBC program In Search of Steve Ditko, by Jonathan Ross, was pulled from YouTube, but not before I downloaded it, so I’ll post it here. This is a tiny 320×240 video, and letterboxed at that, scaled up to 440×330.
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