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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Dec 7, 2017 22:12:40 GMT -5
I was visiting a comic collector I know today who told me a tale. Now let me preface by saying this guy likes talking and telling stories and it's very possible this is either complete baloney or a mis remembered mash up of past memories.
Anyways he claimed he had a friend who went to school in northern Ontario (he said Thunder Bay) and then thought it was maybe elsewhere. Anyway he said the lady lived next to steve ditko. He didn't know if ditko lived there permanently or just in summer but this guy managed to send a copy of amazing Spider-Man 13 with this lady and steve ditko apparently signed it. I asked if he still had the comic and he does but it's locked in a safe deposit box along with his amazing fantasy 15 and iother super rare books.
This supposedly happened 30-40 years ago. I cannot find any record of Ditko choosing to reside in Ontario let alone Canada. If anyone has heard or read anything about this I'd love to know. I'm aware of where ditko is now because o saw the documentary. But if this guy has this I want to press to see it because a Ditko signature is rare. And on that comic!? Probably the only one
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Post by kirby101 on Dec 7, 2017 22:57:30 GMT -5
I have never heard that Ditko has been anywhere but New York. As far as I know he was born in Pennsylvania and has been in NY since art school. Especially North Ontario, Neal Young maybe, not Ditko.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Dec 7, 2017 22:58:55 GMT -5
He had a nephew with the same name. I'm gonna push and see if I can lay eyes on this issue to see for myself
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Post by berkley on Dec 8, 2017 3:18:35 GMT -5
I bet it was that guy who used to coach the Chicago Bears, everybody always mixes them up.
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Post by chadwilliam on Dec 8, 2017 23:06:28 GMT -5
Though I'm skeptical, I thought I'd toss out the little tidbit that Ditko has suffered from occasional bouts of tuberculosis which required him to move from New York back to Pennsylvania while a teenager. I also believe he relapsed while working on The Creeper for DC. I suppose it's possible that at some time he relocated somewhere you might not have expected to find him though I don't know if someone dealing with TB would decide that Canada's the place to be.
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 9, 2017 13:12:06 GMT -5
Highly doubtful IMO
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 16:51:15 GMT -5
I have a dear friend by the name of Jeff and he's knows a thing of two of Ditko and he's thinks that's highly unlikely that he'll go to Canada for any long-term plan whatsoever. I've been thinking of that too and we both agree to this.
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