Description: Original partial auction-house description: Single-sheet letter measuring 8½" x 11", hand-written by Steve Ditko in a neat script on typing paper, dated "May 14, 2013" with Ditko's studio address written in the upper right corner ("1650 Broadway #715 / New York, NY 10019-6833"). Dually signed "Steve Ditko" in both cursive and printing. With the original mailing envelope, hand-addressed by Ditko. Provenance: Written to Mel Smith, comic book creator and publisher (Acme Ink, Ten Ton Press)."The past is gone." In this letter to comics creator and small-press publisher Mel Smith, Steve Ditko waxes philosophical on the forward march of time and the futility of revisiting past artistic glories. "The world, nature is continually changing with time, the years. As every one, everything grows, changes, the past is gone. So redoing is like trying to live in the past." Having said that, Ditko makes allowance for occasional nostalgic indulgences: "One can enjoy some parts of the past like with reprints, reruns, historical, etc books, material, with all sorts of subjects." Ditko then thanks Mel for sending him a fistful of funnybooks: "Thanks for the variety of comic book titles. It will take me time to go through them all." He signs off by admitting that he's "familiar with Bob Burden's work, his Flaming Carrot. Regards, Steve Ditko." Although Ditko doesn't say whether or not he enjoyed Burden's surreal cult-classic, Burden went on the record as a Ditko fan in a 2010 interview with blogger Tea Krulos: "I remember reading a Spider-Man comic where he couldn’t find his costume, Aunt May took it and threw it out, so he had to get a costume quick. He went into a department store and got a toy costume, a Halloween costume, and all during the adventure it was coming loose on him and he had to keep using spider webs to pull it back up. That’s not the type of thing that would happen to Superman, who was kind of an all powerful character, or Green Lantern. Unthinkable." US SHIPPING ONLY.
Price: 750 USD
Location: Houston, Texas
End Time: 2024-11-28T19:39:41.000Z
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