Michael, I found a copy with the Kirby documentary cheap at Costco. I agree with you and really enjoyed it. I thought the history of the FF doc was nice as well. The JB years were handled with a nice montage of his art and captions talking about his run bringing the title back to being the world's greatest comic magazine. A little too heavy with one creator that didn't do that much with the characters to deserve as much screen time as he received, but still good overall.

Maybe this Ditko documentary will be included in a future DVD so we Americans can see it.

nice article by Jonathan Ross here in todays Guardian

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2169000,00.html

"I'm in New York, standing outside the office of my greatest hero. I know he's inside because I called ahead and spoke to the great man. Now in his 80s, he was polite but firm. "Don't come by," he said. "I'm too busy. I don't have anything to say to you. But thank you." I have decided, perhaps unwisely and rudely, to ignore him. I need to know!

So there I stand, on the final days of shooting my love-letter to and investigation into the strange life and work of the great Steve Ditko. And my hero has told me not to knock. But I owe it to comic fans the world over who want to hear, at last, from Ditko himself. I owe it the BBC, who have kindly allowed me to take a crew over to New York to see this thing through. Perhaps most importantly, I owe it to my 14-year-old self. So, of course, I knock ... "