The Library of Congress received 24 pages of Amazing Fantasy #15 from an anonymous donor last spring, and they’ve got some cool pictures of the artwork posted. The pages include the first appearance of Spider-Man, drawn by Steve Ditko.

Probably a good thing Marvel didn’t ever return the originals to Ditko, given the stories about him [...]

Courtesy of ericsaysfuckyou.blogspot.com.

Leading with the best one this time…

There’s a whole series of these at Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog, and they’re Bat-tastic:

Batman

…forgot to pay the electric bill. Again.

Just an assortment this time.

Gotta love the evil ventriloquist’s dummy motif. Pretty sure this one predates the Twilight Zone episode.

Ziff-Davis carried over their comic book cover style from the pulps they published at the time, Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures. The stories are pretty standard 1950’s horror/sci-fi fare, but the painted covers were pretty unique for the day. I’d have to say issue #2 is the pick of the litter.

…but ghost cops call them bad news!

The whole sordid tale available here.

Vintage Steve Ditko from Tales To Astonish #4…”I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for that meddling Captain Racer!”