Anonymous
asked:
Was Ditko in touch with Marvel at all before Speedball? He's so reclusive, I feel like there's a story there. Maybe it's already been told and you can point me in the right direction, but some inside baseball would be great. Did he just call the office one day and say "Hi, my name is Steve Ditko. I've got this new character I want to pitch..." and disappear back into the ether when it was over?
Well, Ditko didn’t pitch Speedball. Tom DeFalco pitched Speedball.
But at that point, Steve was back working for Marvel on series such as ROM and MICRONAUTS and so forth–so turning to him with a new character wasn’t difficult. And Steve didn’t disappear thereafter–he was still doing jobs for marvel through the middle of the 1990s at least