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- Charlton was a prolific, though notoriously cheap, bottom-of-the-barrel comics publisher, but Ditko was able to crank out pages largely free from editorial direction. In less than a year, Ditko drew 170 pages and 19 covers for Charlton, with a concentration on pre-Comics Code horror comics.
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Apr 15, 2017 · The ornately drawn "Cinderella" (The Thing #12, February 1954) was Ditko's first published Charlton story, inaugurating a run of horror/suspense tales by the artist that spanned over thirty years (1954-1985). Ditko had a long association with Charlton Press dating back to his earliest days in comics.
- Nick Caputo
Apr 25, 2017 · One of only three covers Ditko drew for Charlton in comics cover-dated 1974. While "Room for One More" (Haunted # 16, June) was standard fare about crime, betrayal and ghostly revenge, Ditko was up to form, creating an ominous mood with his attention to settings and investing characters such as the elderly man with distinct personality.
- Nick Caputo
Jul 6, 2018 · In less than a year, Ditko drew 170 pages and 19 covers for Charlton, with a concentration on pre-Comics Code horror comics. He accomplished this in spite of suffering from the onset of tuberculosis, which brought his work to a halt in 1954.
Dec 6, 2012 · Continuing our look at the 320 covers by Steve Ditko produced for Charlton, we enter in to where he begins his runs on some of his most well known titles. We see Ditko's first foray into the super hero genre with Captain Atom, and he also begins his unforgettable runs on both GORGO, and KONGA! In between, we have the usual mystery and sc-fi titles.
Ditko continued to work for Charlton and also DC Comics, including a revamp of the long-running character the Blue Beetle and creating or co-creating the Question, the Creeper, Shade the Changing Man, and Hawk and Dove.
- Stephen John Ditko, November 2, 1927, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- June 29, 2018 (aged 90), New York City, U.S.
Oct 28, 2023 · Steve Ditko (1927 – 2018) was one of the most distinctive illustrators to work for Marvel Comics during the formative years of the early 1960s and is probably best remembered for his definitive runs on ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Dr Strange’.
Feb 1, 2013 · THE DITKO COVERS: A Chronology: Part Three. We begin part three of our chronological overview of Steve Ditko's covers for Charlton with KONGA #9, cover-dated November 1962, and continue just three months shy of 9 years worth of covers with GHOSTLY TALES #87, cover-dated August 1971.
