Steve Ditko

Features another 200-plus meticulously restored, full-colour pages from Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko in his early prime, at the time working in near anonymity for Charlton Comics in the then-popular horror/suspense genre. Comics like Tales of The Mysterious Traveler and This Magazine Is Haunted saw an explosion in Ditko's ingenuity, as he manipulated the traditional comic-book page layout with masterful results....

It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels—explorations of the relationship between power and responsibility, metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness, meditations on the pain of adolescence and the fluid nature of identity, examinations of the meaning, and limits, of patriotism....