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Impossible Tales

Impossible Tales - The Steve Ditko Archives

First Fantagraphics Books edition

Hardback (28 Nov 2013)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Five years before Steve Ditko began work on his now legendary co-creations for Marvel Comics, the Amazing Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, he was producing some of his best work in near anonymity for Charlton Comics. Impossible Tales features over 200 beautifully restored full-colour pages of Ditko in his early prime that have never been properly printed until now. Featured within are thrilling stories of suspense, mystery, haunted houses and unsuspecting victims, all delineated in Ditko's wildly idiosyncratic, masterful style.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781606996409
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Edition: First Fantagraphics Books edition
DEWEY: 741.5973
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 846g
Height: 251mm
Width: 187mm
Spine width: 24mm

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