Captain Atom 80 (3rd issue)

Ditko's very first superhero character was Captain Atom (which pre-dates Spider-Man). The character appeared in Charlton's SPACE ADVENTURES title from # 30, March 1960 throuugh to # 42, october 1961. Towards the end of Ditko's run on Spider-man, the artist resurrected Captain Atom (in his own title) in December 1965. The CAPTAIN ATOM # 80 cover, displayed here, is actually the THIRD issue of the Captain's new adventures (the SPACE ADVENTURES covers featured stats taken from the interior story pages). The artwork appeared at the same time as THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN # 35. Large Art Ditko superhero covers from the mid-1960s are extremely scarce (the handful of ASM covers known to exist are locked-away in permanent collections, unlikely to re-surface any time soon).

Signed by Ditko and Rocke