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Threw some color on it #steveditko #steveditkoart #steveditkospiderman #marvel #marvelcomics #marvellegends #marvelart #marvelfanart #marvelfan @marvel https://www.instagram.com/p/ChKVlTLLfYI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Drawing time! #art #artwork #drawing #steveditko #steveditkoart #steveditkospiderman #marvel #marvelart https://www.instagram.com/p/ChHKauFOGRY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13th @ 5:30pm EST: THE STRANGE WORLDS OF STEVE DITKO webinar via New York Adventure Club! Prior to his co-creation of Spider-man with Marvel Comics’ writer/editor Stan Lee in 1962, Steve Ditko’s artistic milieu mirrored the struggle between good and evil, ugliness and beauty, age and youth, the weak versus the strong. Thus, his groundbreaking depiction of Spider-man went against type by portraying the everyman, the loner, the underdog—i.e., the teenager—as superhero, and hence super-antihero, the Silver Age’s most popular. With his creation of the super-sorcerer Dr. Strange, Ditko explored the darker worlds of mysticism and the occult. To a generation weaned on American pop culture’s more mundane depictions of reality, a step into the pages of Dr. Strange proved to be a surrealistic journey through the wondrous worlds of Ditko’s artistic imagination. After Ditko left Marvel in 1965, he created The Creeper and The Hawk & Dove for DC Comics, that, if not on the same level of popularity as his previous Marvel heroes, have nonetheless endured to entertain new readers in the 21st Century. So come join comic book art historian Arlen Schumer (author/designer, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) as he presents an overview of Ditko’s illustrious Silver Age career, dynamically displaying his comic book panels, pages and covers so that you’ll feel like you’re seeing them for the first time! TIX: https://bit.ly/3yXmMAu •••CAN’T make it LIVE? A ticket allows you to watch a recording of the webinar for up to a week after! #steveditkoart #ditko #spiderman #drstrange #doctorstrange #thecreeper #bluebeetle #marvelcomic #dccomics #marveluniverse #comicbookartists #comicbookhistory @dgareps @westportlibrary @westporthistorymuseum @dbbushman @adamschumer @richard_syrett https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf4Odx4r_4c/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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TEN DAYS OF DITKO, Day Ten! My top 10 favorite images created by the legendary STEVE DITKO, leading up to my LIVE VisuaLecture, "The Strange Worlds of Steve Ditko," at DITKO-CON 2021 in his hometown of Johnstown, PA, TONIGHT, Friday night, September 10, before the 1-day convention on Saturday the 11th, where I'll be signing hardcover copies of my book, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art! Hope to meet my PA peeps there: http://bottleworks.org/ditk-con-2021/ Even more, perhaps, than The Blue Beetle, The Creeper, whom Ditko created for DC Comics in 1968, was the closest he had come to riding the line between replicating Spider-man and creating an original character. Like the best film noir, you can almost feel the rain on the cover of Beware The Creeper #1 (June 1968), a trait it shares with Ditko’s previous watery classic, Spider-man #33 (Feb. 1966). Though never making it past a handful of issues in his original Silver Age run because Ditko came down with tuberculosis, The Creeper's lived on ever since, åin creative hands other than Ditko’s. #ditko #steveditkoart #thecreeper #dccomicsart #arlenschumer @tommyzotos @dgareps @adamschumer @richard_syrett https://www.instagram.com/p/CTpQdY1rF3x/?utm_medium=tumblr

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TEN DAYS OF DITKO, Day Nine! My top 10 favorite images created by the legendary STEVE DITKO, leading up to my LIVE VisuaLecture, "The Strange Worlds of Steve Ditko," at DITKO-CON 2021 in his hometown of Johnstown, PA, this Friday night, September 10, before the 1-day convention on Saturday the 11th, where I'll be signing hardcover copies of my book, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art! Hope to meet my PA peeps there: http://bottleworks.org/ditk-con-2021/ Like the central illustration, a confrontation between hawk and dove, the concept for Ditko’s The Hawk and The Dove was torn--torn from the headlines of 1968 America, where pro- and anti-Vietnam War protestors were clashing on a daily basis. Ditko’s personifications were novel, but Ditko contracted tuberculosis (!) a couple issues later, never to return to the super-powered brother team. Yet The Hawk and The Dove remain functioning inhabitants of the DC universe. #ditko #steveditkoart #hawkanddove #arlenschumer #comicbookhistory #comicbookhistorian @dgareps @tommyzotos @adamschumer @richard_syrett https://www.instagram.com/p/CTmiVs0rDqM/?utm_medium=tumblr

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TEN DAYS OF DITKO, Day Eight! My top 10 favorite images created by the legendary STEVE DITKO, leading up to my LIVE VisuaLecture, "The Strange Worlds of Steve Ditko," at DITKO-CON 2021 in his hometown of Johnstown, PA, this Friday night, September 10, before the 1-day convention on Saturday the 11th, where I'll be signing hardcover copies of my book, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art! Hope to meet my PA peeps there: http://bottleworks.org/ditk-con-2021/ DITKO: “When Blue Beetle got his own magazine, they needed a companion feature for it. I didn’t want to do Mr. A, because I didn’t think the Comics Code would let me do the type of stories I wanted to do, so I worked up The Question, using the basic idea of a man who was motivated by basic black and white principles.” ”What is the greatest battle an individual must fight? Is it against the mystic terrors of unknown dimensions? Is it against the hordes of alien beings from outer space, or against foreign armies or criminal conspiracies? No! The greatest battle you or any person must constantly fight is not any of those! What, then, is man’s greatest battle?” “Where other heroes choose to be self-made neurotics, The Question and Mr. A choose to be psychologically and intellectually healthy. They know what they stand for and why they must make that stand. This is the premise that The Question and Mr. A are based on.” #steveditkoart #ditko #arlenschumer #comicbookhistory #comicbookhistorian #charltoncomics @dgareps @tommyzotos @adamschumer @richard_syrett https://www.instagram.com/p/CTkUnoDMncG/?utm_medium=tumblr

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TEN DAYS OF DITKO, Day Six! My top 10 favorite images created by the legendary STEVE DITKO, leading up to my LIVE VisuaLecture, "The Strange Worlds of Steve Ditko," at DITKO-CON 2021 in his hometown of Johnstown, PA, this Friday night, September 10, before the 1-day convention on Saturday the 11th, where I'll be signing hardcover copies of my book, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art! Hope to meet my PA peeps there: http://bottleworks.org/ditk-con-2021/ After leaving Marvel in late '65, Ditko revamped a superhero who had been around since the Golden Age, The Blue Beetle, for Charlton Comics. “I was looking over the first Blue Beetle that Charlton put out and it was terrible,” Ditko said. “I began thinking how it could have been handled. The ideas I had were good, so I marked them down, made sketches of the costume, gadgets, the bug, etc. A year or so later, when Charlton was again planning to do superheroes, I told editor Dick Giordano about the Blue Beetle idea I had. He was interested in trying it, so it came out of the idea file…” ...and into superhero IMMORTALITY!!! #steveditkoart #ditko #bluebeetle #charltoncomics #arlenschumer #thesilverageofcomicbookart #comicbookhistory #comicbookhistorian @dgareps @tommyzotos @adamschumer @richard_syrett https://www.instagram.com/p/CTfGlMHsE5Y/?utm_medium=tumblr

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TEN DAYS OF DITKO, Day Six! My top 10 favorite images created by the legendary STEVE DITKO, leading up to my LIVE VisuaLecture, "The Strange Worlds of Steve Ditko," at DITKO-CON 2021 in his hometown of Johnstown, PA, this Friday night, September 10, before the 1-day convention on Saturday the 11th, where I'll be signing hardcover copies of my book, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art! Hope to meet my PA peeps there: http://bottleworks.org/ditk-con-2021/ After leaving Marvel in late '65, Ditko revamped a superhero who had been around since the Golden Age, The Blue Beetle, for Charlton Comics. “I was looking over the first Blue Beetle that Charlton put out and it was terrible,” Ditko said. “I began thinking how it could have been handled. The ideas I had were good, so I marked them down, made sketches of the costume, gadgets, the bug, etc. A year or so later, when Charlton was again planning to do superheroes, I told editor Dick Giordano about the Blue Beetle idea I had. He was interested in trying it, so it came out of the idea file…” ...and into superhero IMMORTALITY!!! #steveditkoart #ditko #bluebeetle #charltoncomics #arlenschumer #thesilverageofcomicbookart #comicbookhistory #comicbookhistorian @dgareps @tommyzotos @adamschumer @richard_syrett https://www.instagram.com/p/CTfF-ghsoJq/?utm_medium=tumblr