Welcome to Steve Ditko Week at The ITCH Blog! You’ll see Ditko rarities all week here. And this Thursday at I’ll interview Faux Ditko at the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art in NYC at 7 pm! Each day I’ll present an amazing story from my new book, “The Art of Ditko”. I’m starting off with one of the weirdest, most innovative and rarest: The 9th Life. I think Ditko wrote this himself with the story’s Ann Randian overtones.

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Here’s the book Ditko fans are raving about! A revealing introduction by Stan Lee. Essays by Jerry Robinson (creator of the Joker and Ditko’s teacher), John Romita (who followed Ditko on Spiderman) and P. Craig Russel (who inked Ditko). And 30 of Ditko’s most innovative stories, rare and unpublished art…and the book concludes with some of Ditko’s own words!

Order the beautiful large format faux leather “Art of Ditko” by clicking here!