Amazing Fantasy No. 15 Cover by Steve Ditko
For a rejected cover, it’s made its rounds over the years. Steve Ditko submitted this image, but Marvel’s then-publisher Martin Goodman rejected it. Gone was Ditko’s downward-looking POV to be replaced by an upward-looking Kirby-pencilled version.
The Ditko version was used in Marvel Tales and as a variant cover to Amazing Spider-Man #700. The lineart was published in a fanzine, and facebook acquaintance Jim McPherson supplied a scan (thanks, Jim) for me to work with.
Scan from the fanzine.
Cleaned-up art.
New colour.
Stripping away the original branding.
Re-created trade dress added to make Amazing Spider-Man #702.
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