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)

Batmanimation - TVoO! Style

So...

You're all familiar with Wally Wood's classic parody of Batman, right? That one from way back in Mad (the comic, not the magazine) #8...

...and you've probably at least heard of the manga version of Batman...

(This 2-page spread is why we're using the digital version instead of the print)

But, you may be wondering why the old hermit is rambling about odd Bat-comics when i said this was a Batmanimation post up in the title.

But, surely you knew they did a toon version of the Wally Wood classic,right...?

(They even had groovy print-dot patterns way back before Into The Spiderverse)

And, yep - they kept the spanking scene...

...and kept it with glee. 

Oh, look! There's no starbursts, but that sure looks like our old friend, the Blonde Phantom, hanging out on the right>>>

So, you probably figured out by this point that the anime version of Jiro Kuwata's manga exists, too, huh?

Of course, they added a little change at the end for the gaijin audience...

(Spoiler: Even his mask was shredded in the explosion)

Now, mind you - I'm not trying to claim that Batman is the only one with animated tales that too many haven't seen...

But, that's another post, right?

page art by Wally Wood and Jiro Kuwata for Mad #8 and Shonen Kingu #23 (1953, 1966)

you know where the animation's from, right?