May 27, 2010
New Ditko - Spider-Man reprint with pencils
Marvel's softcover Masterworks line gets up to The Amazing Spider-Man v4 this week, collecting the last 8 of Ditko's stories of his co-creation, and the first few post-Ditko issues. For the first time, this version also apparently has reproductions of copies of Ditko's pencils for #31. Feel free to comment on that if you get a copy.
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I flipped through this at my LCS. The first half of the ASM #31 pages are penciled layouts (some quite tight by Ditko's standards), the rest have had the lettering added but are still uninked. The scans came from Marie Severin. A few of the things that struck me:
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2) The informal-style credits ("Mellifulous Lettering by...", etc) have also already been added by Ditko at the pencil stage.
3) The new characters Gwen Stacy and Harry Osborne are both named by Ditko in a margin note.