Outer Space #20 - Steve Ditko art

Outer Space #20
Outer Space v1 #20, 1958Steve Ditko contributed three stories, his last for this Charlton science-fiction title. Two are mildly interesting, I admit, even with their flat, simplistically graphic approach. Of the three, Ditko seems to put more effort into "The Greater Jovians", a tale of planetary famine. The artist cleverly uses full pages and insets to reinforce the theme of relative scale (see interior page below). This golden age issue includes art by Sol Brodsky and Maurice Whitman. Cover by Dick Giordano (although the machinery looks suspiciously like Wally Wood). This is 3 of 4 Outer Space issues by Ditko.
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"The Greater Jovians" Ditko story pencils and inks 5 pages = ***
"Misfits" Ditko story pencils and inks 5 pages = **
"Far Away Voices" Ditko story pencils and inks 5 pages = **

Outer Space v1 #20 charlton sci-fi comic book page art by Steve Ditko
Steve Ditko
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Any idea who drew the cover? Figure looks too good to be Ditko.

Steven Black said...

Wally Wood

Steven Black said...

Wally Wood for everything except the alien face

Ted Ignacio @ Pencil Ink said...

GCD credits the cover to Dick Giordano. The background looks like Wood though. I wonder if the background was swiped from an earlier EC sci-fi issue.

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