The Ottawa Comic Book Guy

After a hectic few weeks away from the regular grind (as anyone with children can attest to), a few notes from the world of comics while I was away. The passing of Steve Ditko : Sometime on approximately 29 June 2018, Steve Ditko passed away. Co-creator with Stan Lee of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange at Marvel, creator of Captain Atom and the Question at Charlton, and the Creeper and Hawk and Dove at DC Comics, Ditko was known for the heart and soul he put into every character he worked on (usually by injecting qualities of himself into the astory.) Although he only did 38 issues of the Amazing Spider-Man , these issues defined the character. He created Doctor Octopus, the Lizard and the Green Goblin. He was also involved in the relaunch of the Hulk in Tales to Astonish after his own magazine died after 6 issues. After a fallout with Lee that no one (including Lee) understood what happened, Steve left Marvel and moved on to Charlton Comics where he revamped the Blue Beetle, a...

While doing research for my gorilla cover comics article this week, I came to two realizations: one, that I have way too many empty coffee mugs in my computer area; and two, there are so many articles already done on gorilla comics that the subject has almost been done to death. Like myself, Boris was surprised: So I have decided to change the focus a little bit on the article and talk about different genres of comic collecting instead. Now, in this I am going to avoid one-character or one series collecting, as this is pretty straight forward (I am a little guilty of this as I seem to major in the Super-Family titles even ones such as DC Comics Presents... ), but instead I will focus upon different genres and types. Subject covers - This would include gorilla covers, which by far seem to be the most numerous, but also include various other types, such as robot covers as pictured above. The five most popular cover subjects as I have found in my research are: gorillas, robots, b...