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Jason Czeskleba
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Eric Jansen wrote:
And did these ever ink JB?
Steve Ditko Jack Kirby (Anything? Even some obscure con sketch?) |
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Post-1960s instances of Steve Ditko inking someone else's pencils are extremely rare. So rare in fact that I'm only aware of one example: Micronauts Annual #2, in which Rich Buckler drew the first ten pages and then gave up the assignment, and Ditko finished the pencils and then inked the whole thing, presumably to give the art a more uniform look.
I'm not aware of any instances of Kirby inking someone else's work in the 70s or beyond. He rarely even inked his own work at that point.
Edited by Jason Czeskleba on 14 October 2025 at 11:09pm
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John Byrne
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Ditko inked a cover of mine……..?
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Eric White
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| Posted: 15 October 2025 at 1:05am | IP Logged | 3
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A really good looking combination.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 15 October 2025 at 11:42am | IP Logged | 4
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That’s the one!
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 15 October 2025 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | 5
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That's a really interesting cover.
Machine man's face is Ditko
The goon's face is Byrne.
On so much of it, I can see both Byrne and Ditko - it's
like one of those optical illusions. Squint and it's one
thing, squint a different way, and it's another.
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Peter Martin
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It's a nice synthesis -- works much better than I might have thought. It you look at the right boot of Machine Man, the feel of those lines is very Ditko, especially the shadow, but the shape of the boot, that convincing 3-d look to the boot and its sole, is very Byrne.
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Vinny Valenti
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| Posted: 15 October 2025 at 1:18pm | IP Logged | 7
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"On so much of it, I can see both Byrne and Ditko - it's
like one of those optical illusions. Squint and it's one
thing, squint a different way, and it's another."
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That's how I feel about the Byrne/Simonson collab! What a good way of putting it.
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Jason Czeskleba
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| Posted: 15 October 2025 at 3:27pm | IP Logged | 8
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Delighted to be proven wrong about the Byrne/Ditko collaboration.
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Eric White
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| Posted: 15 October 2025 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | 9
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Ditko inked Dick Ayers on the Fly #9 put out by Archie Comics in the 1980s. It was rare but Ditko still did a little inking over himself on those Fly comics. I thought it looked good.
Edited by Eric White on 15 October 2025 at 9:38pm
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Doug Centers
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"Who else?"
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Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez inked JB in the one-shot "Superman Thru the Ages". Only two pages but it's wunderbar!
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| Posted: 15 October 2025 at 10:57pm | IP Logged | 11
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Also, 2 of my all-time favorites together on The Untold Legend of the Batman #1, Jim Aparo over JB.
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Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez inked JB in the one-shot "Superman Thru the
Ages". Only two pages but it's wunderbar!
*****
And also NEW TEEN TITANS ANNUAL 2.
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