Departing Ditko Days

We've got just enough room left in the week for one more visit with Steve Ditko. Let's start where we left off, with some stories from the mid-50s...

This is The Voice Of ODD!, so let us take a hard turn into Odd territory for some completely different Ditko -

He even brought us the cover to that issue...

...and it was hardly his only trip into weird comedy...

This one was rarely seen, originally slated for Plop! and published in the Amazing World Of DC Comics, we get Steve Ditko working with Steve Skeates and Wally Wood -

And now we seem to have looped back around to where we started...

...so i guess it's time to move along...

page art by Steve Ditko (and Wally Wood) from Spellbound #29, Mystery Tales #s 40, 45, & 47, From Here To Insanity #s 10 & 1 (v.3), Amazing World Of DC Comics #13, and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1955, 1956, 1964, 1975)

It All Started With This Purple Footed Ostrich Roller-Skating Down The Old Kent Road...

Whatdyaknow? I actually know what day it is today. So let's have some Sunday Morning Funnies. Since it's been a little while since they were monkeying around here, our stars today are The Monkees! (Yeah, i'm excited)

Most of today's funnies come from The Monkees' 1967 & 1969 UK Annuals, with one little bonus exception at the end...

Sometimes they liked to work with double page spreads for the stories. Those often had border art added to help fit the page format of the annuals. I've trimmed that to fit the page format of the blog. Well - sort of fit. They're big images, so they fits when you clicks...

See it, not saying it.

In one of the early posts on the boys, i ran a couple of panels from a story in which they added a robot to the band. Here's the full story from which those panels came: Volt's Concerto In DC Minor -

For our promised Bonus - more robot fun, this time from Steve Skeates and Jim Aparo -

Don't look so surprised. I did mention that Aparo did multiple Monkees comics last time i ran one. I know of at least one more...

page art from The Monkees Annual #s 1 & 3, and Teen Times #5 (1967, 1969)