Dripping with Fear: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 5

by Steve Ditko, Blake Bell (Editor)

Overview

This book features another 200-plus meticulously restored, full-color pages from Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko in his early prime, working in the then-popular horror / suspense genre.

Steve Ditko drew the work featured in Dripping with Fear just before he collaborated with Stan Lee on Spider-Man and Doctor Strange at Marvel Comics. This volume has another 200-plus meticulously restored, full-color pages from Ditko in his early prime, at the time working in near anonymity for Charlton Comics in the then-popular horror/suspense genre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781606997062
Publisher:	Fantagraphics Books
Publication date:	03/19/2015
Series:	Steve Ditko Archives Series , #5
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

Steve Ditko continues to create comics in his studio in New York City.

Blake Bell is the author of Strange & Stranger (a retrospective of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko); The Secret History of Marvel Comics, Fire & Water: Bill Everett, The Sub-Mariner, and the Birth of Marvel Comics; Amazing Mysteries: The Bill Everett Archives; and Strange Suspense and Unexplored Worlds (two volumes in The Steve Ditko Archives). He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his son.

Editorial Reviews

Mr. Ditko’s idiosyncratic drawings... ooze with dread, terror and mistrust in Dripping With Fear. ... The best of Mr. Ditko’s drawings here point to a haunted inner life of cobwebs, cracked windows and stairways to nowhere — chiaroscuro not as a technique of art, but as a way of life.

Dana Jennings - The New York Times