What's in the mystery glowing book causing that look of fear? Does it really matter. Great cover, with the ornate designs on the box, the fearful, sweat-drenched face and the candle in the foreground.
I was going to declare a favourite Ditko cover-only book when I got through posting them, but that's going to be too hard a choice. Even dividing them into pre-code and post-code it's going to be a hard call.
Bob,
ReplyDeleteI love the face but the cover is slightly detracted by that unslightly hand in the foreground, which I believe was drawn by someone other than Ditko. The hand looks a little too stiff and lifeless to be by Ditko.
Nick Caputo
Yeah, that hand is a little out of place, isn't it? Even at this early date Ditko's hands were usually more distinctive than that.
ReplyDeleteAfter these comments I looked at the hands also and have to agree. I have to doubt that either hand was done by Ditko. I note that the thumbs on both hands have a flattened look to them.
ReplyDeleteMB
I think the left hand was by Ditko, although the thumb appears to be added by the same person who drew the right hand. The hand has that generic Charlton look; if I researched a little I could probably place the artist.
ReplyDeleteNick Caputo
Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your comments and looking again at the art, I have to agree that most of the right hand is Ditko's, and that someone else added in the left and AND right thumb. There is a strange 'bumb' behind the right thumb that I think is the right thumb knuckle, with the rest of the thumb hidden from the viewer behind the lid.