While Marvel reprints everything in five different formats, DC's reprint philosophy (for the things I most want at least) is nothing or the most expensive hardcover possible--and not enough of those!

The dollar boxes have been pretty reliable for things like SHADE, STALKER, and SPEEDBALL--which I finally found the last issue of...just after I saw that there was a tpb collection in 2019!  Also recently got the MACHINE MAN tpb (when else are you going to see Ditko take over a series from Kirby?!?) and, for a Christmas present for a friend, the MARVEL VISIONARIES: STEVE DITKO tpb, full of fun stuff!

A couple of years ago I got his collected early Dr. Strange and it blew my mind. Genius!

I didn't read Shade The Changing Man when it was originally coming out, but about ten years ago I bought up the run and read it, and was quite impressed.  Imaginative and different, and not too bogged down by philosophy in the manner that most of his writing went afterwards.  And his artwork seemed a cut above some of the stuff he was doing concurrently, with a lot of imaginative, hallucinogenic imagery somewhat reminiscent of what he'd done on Doctor Strange.  The series is one of his career highlights as far as I'm concerned.

Shade also was notable as Ditko's final attempt to write a mainstream comic book for a major publisher.  After that, he limited his writing to his small press or self-published work, and was strictly an art robot on the subsequent stuff he did for Marvel, DC, and MLJ. 

Here's a fun little thing I just came across!  For whatever reason, Marvel sometimes used new covers for various issues of reprint titles.  Here's a new Ditko cover for the April, 1979 issue 47 (the final issue) of MARVEL TRIPLE ACTION, giving a rare look at Ditko's version of the 1960's Avengers!

This is the reverse view of the original John Buscema/George Klein cover for AVENGERS #54, with all the heroes more plainly seen and the villains (this time) getting the back treatment.