The Steve Ditko Archives #4

In "Journey to Paradise," a skeptical scientist named Adam Marsh—adamant about evolution and dismissive of myth—accidentally activates a time machine and awakens in a lush, untouched paradise, where he finds himself utterly alone, waiting for a figure he can't explain: his Eve.

In "Little Boy Blue," a young trumpeter named Johnny Blue wrestles with the haunting belief that music holds secrets beyond the known scale—notes so strange, so powerful, they might not be meant for human ears. With the enigmatic Mysterious Traveler as his guide and a skeptical music critic, Farley Caldane, watching from the sidelines, Johnny’s quest to find those lost notes leads him down a path where sound and silence blur into something neither the world nor his own mind can fully grasp.

Blind since birth, little Susi found comfort in her imaginary friend Grulla while living in a Bavarian Alps orphanage. When Grulla finally took shape one night and promised to return with a surprise, Susi’s life changed in ways she never imagined—especially when a couple named the Grullas came to adopt her, and the husband turned out to be an eye surgeon.

In the mist-shrouded peaks of Italy, a weary author stumbles upon a forgotten town where the people bear strange, otherworldly features—echoes of Leonardo da Vinci’s genius twisted by time and isolation. As he flees the eerie silence and unsettling stillness, he returns to the world below with a story too strange to be true, only to find that no one will believe the truth he’s written down.