Marvel Milestones: Dragon Lord, Speedball & The Man in the Sky

    (Marvel, 2006)
™ and ©2006 Marvel Characters, Inc.

With over 50 years of experience (including super-hero, sci-fi, horror and romance comics) Steve Ditko is one of the most famous and prolific artists in the industry. He is probably best known, however, for being co-creator of Marvel’s most popular character, Spider-Man, as well as many of the webslinger’s deadliest enemies. Given that, it is not surprising that Marvel released this special tribute to Ditko’s work.

Harder to understand are the stories representing that tribute:

Marvel Spotlight’s Dragon Lord was an uninspired character whose monstrous adversary was an equally uninspiring Godzilla knock-off.

Speedball’s short-lived series was only slightly more memorable, but at least generated enough interest to catapult the bouncy hero into the New Warriors.

The inclusion of 1962’s The Man in the Sky is easiest to comprehend. Arguably Marvel’s first mutant story, it perhaps paved the way for their incredibly successful X-Men franchise.

— Joseph Self
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