FREE STEVE DITKO OMNIBUS: STARRING SHADE VOLUME 1 PDF Steve Ditko | 464 pages | 06 Sep 2011 | DC Comics | 9781401231118 | English | New York, NY, United States Multiversity Comics Goodreads Steve Ditko Omnibus: Starring Shade Volume 1 you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The Steve Ditko Omnibus, Vol. Paul Levitz. Wallace Wood Illustrator. This volume also includes a variety of science fiction and mystery stories illustrated by Ditko. These stories, originally published from throughhave never been collected before. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details KozenCoruDr. ElerDr. Other Editions 1. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. May 05, Bob Garrett rated it liked it. Unfortunately, it ends abruptly, with a number of plot threads unresolved. The main introductory story arc is resolved, however, so while the story itself doesn't really end, there is some closure. These are all in the EC vein and include a twist ending of some sort. As is often the case with such tales, they vary in quality, with some being quite good and others being forgettable or even silly. Ditko fans will likely enjoy seeing his collaborations with the different inkers and writers, however. Oct 12, Rich Meyer rated it it was amazing Shelves: read-in I think that with the publication of these two omnibuses, and the Creeper book, that pretty much reprints all of Ditko's DC work or close to it. This volume reprints two of his more esoteric series: the original Shade the Changing Man and Stalker. Shade was more science fiction Steve Ditko Omnibus: Starring Shade Volume 1 super-hero, and never got the chance to find a proper audience due to financial cutbacks at DC back in the mid-seventies. The line Steve Ditko Omnibus: Starring Shade Volume 1 interesting, but only Warlord found a foothold with the buying public. Stalker's interesting in that it's the creation of Ditko and the late Wally Wood, making for some interesting and beautiful comic books. All great stories, too. It also reprints the appearance of the Odd Man from Cancelled Comic Cavalcade, a strip that was going to be the back-up for Shade, and eventually Steve Ditko Omnibus: Starring Shade Volume 1 show up in the pages of Detective Comics. This, however, is the black-and-white version from CCC. This book is a great read for a comic fan and a pure delight for any fan of Steve Ditko's work. Aug 13, Michael P. Hard to evaluate so uneven a collection of old comic stories. SHADE is the comic that shows that Ditko could be a poor visual storyteller if only because the very strange concept sometimes made the art hard to decipher. The stories are also repetitious and so full of fight scenes that the overall plot advances slowly. Cancelling the title was a ble Hard to evaluate so uneven a collection of old comic stories. Cancelling the title was a blessing. The real value of this collection are the stories culled from the anthology titles. Steve Ditko is a terrible writer and the few he wrote are subpar, but those written by real writers are often fun stories and a few do not have predictable endings. A bonus. The anthologies two, three, and four, with the overwhelming majority rating three. Mar 10, Hannah Givens rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novelsci-fishort-storieshorror. I mostly just read the Shade the Changing Man stories, and really enjoyed them. This has all 8 original issues, and they tell a mostly complete story although there was room left to continue on. Very creative worldbuilding and art, and I loved the prominent female roles -- slightly dated, but still fairly central and complex. I also liked that almost all of it took place in Meta rather than on Earth. I'm coming to this after loving Shade the Steve Ditko Omnibus: Starring Shade Volume 1 Girl, and one of the things I liked about it I mostly just read the Shade the Changing Man stories, and really enjoyed them. I'm coming to this after loving Shade the Changing Girl, and one of the things I liked about it was that it maintained Meta plotlines and a sci-fi tone rather than making Shade's alienness just a metaphor. I read a few of the horror stories too, and they all seem fine especially if you're there for Ditko's art, but they didn't interest me enough to read the whole thing. Aug 28, Zack! Empire rated it liked it Shelves: dc-comics. This book is not what Steve Ditko Omnibus: Starring Shade Volume 1 thought it would be. It's a strange collection. There is two regular titles, Shade, Steve Ditko Omnibus: Starring Shade Volume 1 Stalker. Shade has some really cool visuals, but I wasn't really digging it. Honestly, if not for the Ditko art, this is not a title I would have stuck with. Stalker is a great series that sadly only lasts four issues. It starts off seeming to be a swords and sorcery type of story, but quickly changes in to the story of a boy seeking redemption. The rest of the book is very short strip This book is not what I thought it would be. The rest of the book is very short strips done for books like House of Mystery. Overall, the artwork is good as Ditko draws everything from Pirates to the far future, but story wise this book is a let down. Definitely only for Ditko fans. Mar 02, J. Loved the Shade stories. Too bad it was cancelled. The rest is merely so-so, but Ditko's art is great! Apr 14, Steve Ditko Omnibus: Starring Shade Volume 1 rated it liked it Shelves: comicsscience-fiction. Mixed bag of late Ditko work for DC though since he's still active, it's not really late Ditko. A lot of the rest, though, is pretty run of the mill stuff, mostly horror an Mixed bag of late Ditko work for DC though since he's still active, it's not really late Ditko. A lot of the rest, though, is pretty run of the mill stuff, mostly horror and SF shorts, though seeing a rare instance of Ditko doing humour a story from the short-lived Plop! Wood's inks on Ditko for the short run of Stalker create a weird amalgm of the Steve Ditko Omnibus: Starring Shade Volume 1 of two very different masters, though Wood rather overwhelms Ditko's pencils, so the result looks kind of like a Wood book with layouts by Ditko. Most of the rest is pretty forgettable at best, and many of the inkers do Ditko a real disservice. Worth it for ditko fans, but not a lot to recommend it to the more casual reader, I'd say. View 2 comments. Dec 02, Alger rated it it was amazing. This was an anthology book, and thus there was a lot that was good and a lot that was not as good. Namely the complete runs of the series "Shade the Changing Man" and "Stalker. I would suggest this volume to anyone simply to read these two stories. Other than that the rest of the book is short little episodic tales that appeared in pulpy anthology books l This was an anthology book, and Steve Ditko Omnibus: Starring Shade Volume 1 there was a lot that was good and a lot that was not as good. Other than that the rest Steve Ditko Omnibus: Starring Shade Volume 1 the book is short little episodic tales that appeared in pulpy anthology books like "Tales of the Haunted House", "Weird War", "House of Mystery", etc. They are very quick reads and many are entertaining little yarns. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Apr 28, B rated it liked it Shelves: westendborrowed. The Steve Ditko Omnibus Volume One: Starring Shade, The Changing Man | eBay Penciled by Steve Ditko. Yes, yes, new DC this, Justice League that, on and on and on. DC Comics has put out a great series of relatively affordable archival hardcovers over the past few years. It started with putting the entire Kirby Fourth World saga into four solid books — and then from there, beginning a survey of its weirdest corners. That Steve Ditko deserves a series of books collecting his DC output is unquestionable, even if his Marvel work is his most famous co-creator of Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, et cetera. Like or hate his Objectivist leanings which alternate between deafeningly obvious and completely ignored in his stories or his fussy anti-persona, Ditko remains one of the most influential and imaginative writer-artists of all time. From there, he went to small Connecticut publisher Charlton, where he revamped and outright created nearly all of their best-remembered characters: Captain Atom, the Ted Kord Blue Beetle, Nightshade, the Question. Charlton made up for its low pay with general creative freedom, which Ditko no doubt cherished. First was the Creeper, who Steve Ditko Omnibus: Starring Shade Volume 1 had his own hardcover volume a year or two ago. Next came Hawk and Dove or, as they were originally billed, the Hawk and the Dove.