TEN DAYS OF DITKO, Day Three! My top 10 favorite images created by the legendary STEVE DITKO, leading up to my LIVE VisuaLecture, "The Strange Worlds of Steve Ditko" for DITKO-CON 2021 in his hometown of Johnstown, PA, on 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/ If you were watching American television circa 1965, you might've seen the medical show BEN CASEY, in which the younger Casey seeks the wisdom of western medicine via his mentor, the (much) older Dr. Zorba. But if you were reading Steve Ditko's DR. STRANGE, you were instead enthralled by the ectoplasmic visualization of Eastern mysticism mind-melding between Strange and his mentor, The Ancient One--just one phantasmagorical example of Ditko's plethora of proto-psychedelia in the pages of Marvel's Strange Tales (from the splash page of issue #137, Oct. 1965)! #steveditkoart #ditko #steveditkorip #drstrange #doctorstrange #marvelcómics #arlenschumer @dgareps @tommyzotos @adamschumer @richard_syrett https://www.instagram.com/p/CTXiVKlL1IF/?utm_medium=tumblr
