Juswuh

"Wank!" does actually sound like the noise a large metal disc would make when it hit something.

And if you thought the cover was bad, wait till you saw the insides.

Probably because it's a swipe from Kirby. See the splash page to FF #83.

That art looks very much like Steve Ditko??

So what if he did?

Ditko inked by anyone else isn't Ditko, to me anyway. He does so little art in the pencilling that either it comes out in the inker's style, or else the inker has to make an effort to finish it as fake-Ditko. (Better the first, I think. The second is totally pointless. When he gave up inking his own work-for-hire art he might as well have publicly announced that all that stuff was hack work.)

To be fair, it's not hard to find another copy of that book - is it? Doing that to a rare high grade book would be justification for manslaughter.

That cover's certainly better (earlier?) than what I've seen from Ramos before. Somewhere along the line he seems to have turned up the distortion into wilful, pointless ugliness.

Ditko. Everything that makes Spider-Man what he is was laid down in those stories. Ramos should not be in any poll that doesn't include the words "worst" or "ugliest".

That top logo is itself a change, an inept redrawing of the original FF logo - which like most of the Marvel SA logos has never been improved on by later versions.

I got that once for an auction of two large heavy hardcovers and felt I'd like to swipe the guy over the head with them.

Spidey Battles! - while the chorus line looks on!!!

Barry Smith's early stuff was a bit... uhh. He drew people as if their skulls were shaped like light bulbs. Going on topic: for sheer ugliness, nothing comes close to the Ramos covers. His art isn't just bad, it's physically disgusting.

For signing, I'd suggest Shield 4 or Strange Tales 167, both have got good bits of white space.

In the immortal words of Mandy Rice-Davies, "Well he would say that, wouldn't he?"