Linda wrote:
Great stuff. Thanks for posting these, Frank. The Plop story is also evidence of Ditko's sense of humour ~ something that often goes unnoticed, since people tend to define him by his "heavy" Objectivist works.
Well, gee, Linda, they should look around a bit and see that Ditko has used his sense of humor in a number of works, going back to the 1950s in From Here to Insanity, popping up in titles such as Gorgo, evidenced in the 1960s in many issues of Amazing Spider-Man, the Creeper and the Blue Beetle and in later years, one of my favorites, the Missing Man! And lets not forget his work for Cracked and What Th?
