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[MISHKIN, Edward] Pressure Sale Book Two (artwork by Eric Stanton and Steve Ditko)

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[MISHKIN, Edward] Pressure Sale Book Two (artwork by Eric Stanton and Steve Ditko)

$85.00

No place [New York]: No Publisher (Edward Mishkin), No date [mid to late 1960s]. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Octavo. 32pp. Artwork by Eric Stanton and Steve Ditko (18 pages). Very light edge wear otherwise a near fine copy.

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A salesman finds his position reversed when he comes under the grip of 3 man-hating women with their own kind of ... pressure sale. This work was a collaboration between Stanton and Steve Ditko, who shared a work studio in Manhattan. Ditko was the co-creator of the Marvel superhero Spiderman, in which Stanton may also have played a bit part. When either artist was under deadline pressure, it was not uncommon for them to pitch in and help the other with his assignment. Ditko biographer Blake Bell, without citing sources, said, "At one time in history, Ditko denied ever touching Stanton's work, even though Stanton himself said they would each dabble in each other's art; mainly spot-inking", and the introduction to one book of Stanton's work says, "Eric Stanton drew his pictures in India ink, and they were then hand-coloured by Ditko". In a 1988 interview with Theakston, Stanton recalled that although his contribution to Spider-Man was "almost nil", he and Ditko had "worked on storyboards together and I added a few ideas. But the whole thing was created by Steve on his own... I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands."