THE MAN ON THE ENDLESS STAIRWAY by Steve Ditko

This story was originally published in JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY in 1962. It was one of a number of science fiction and fantasy stories that Steve Ditko did for Marvel Comics in this period, which was around the time that he began working on SPIDER-MAN.












Reblogged from http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note the old woman in the story who looks like the character of  "Aunt May" in Spider-Man. It's not too surprising to see this, since Ditko was more or less drawing the same character over again in another story anyway. Aunt May was a more or less stock character to begin with, and about the same character had appeared in other comic books prior to this one.




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A Tale Of Two Witches

This story was originally published in ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN #40 and involves both a wicked old witch and a good little girl witch who both happen to get involved with a little boy. Good ultimately wins, as it generally does in the old comic books.

The art is by Art Gates, but the wicked old witch was a more or less standard character in this series, and is very similar to the wicked old witches they had in other issues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_into_the_Unknown

http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=121

http://archive.org/search.php?query=adventures%20into%20the%20unknown%20AND%20collection%3Aadditional_collections





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Captain Marvin Meets His Match

Another tale brought to you by ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN, issue #107 to be exact.

A BRIDEGROOM FOR JENNY involves a spaceman and a witch, who also happen to be a handsome young man and a homely old maid. There is also a reference to Captain Marvel in this story ( "Captain Marvin" ). This story was originally published in 1959, after the Captain Marvel comic had been canceled, but that comic book was still recent enough at the time that most readers would have gotten the reference.

The spaceman in this story bears a resemblance to the later Marvel comics "Captain Marvel", another spaceman, and to the less well known MF enterprises version, who was an alien robot. Those came out only a few years later, in the 1960's.

ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_into_the_Unknown

http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=121

http://archive.org/search.php?query=adventures%20into%20the%20unknown%20AND%20collection%3Aadditional_collections

MF Enterprises' Captain Marvel and other Captain Marvels:
http://heroheroinehistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/secret-captain-marvel.html





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Mandrake The Magician Meets The Rat Men

Mandrake the Magician is actually a newspaper comic strip, although there have also been Mandrake comic books. Here is a Mandrake story that was republished in comic book form in India.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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