Sara W. Duke is the curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Art in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. She's been at the forefront of the news regarding the donation and addresses some of our questions about the pages (i.e. info. on the Comics Code Authority stamp on the back on the pages; any notations on the work itself; any further alterations on the pages not shown):

There are notations in the margins to "Steve" about changing specific panels. For instance in the panel in which Peter Parker, already feeling strange sensations, nearly is hit by a car and leaps to the side of the building, Ditko is asked to change the drawing in order that it does not appear that the driver is wild. The notations in pencil are nearly erased, but still visible with patience.

There is not a great deal of white out used, but some. Some panels are changed with overlays. On the first page of the Spiderman story the title had been drawn out with webbing. The overlay, which you can see in the LOC blog as been applied over it. The white out obscures some of it, but the overlay is loose. Our conservator has been working her magic on cartoon art for 15 years. She is great at reducing rubber cement and adjusting overlays so that researchers can read the information that had been obscured.

All in all, the pages are in fantastic condition and will require very little work on the part of our conservator.

I hope to complete the processing of the drawings by tomorrow. The goal is to scan them by the end of May, but because they are under copyright control only gif images will display off the Library of Congress campus.

Sara W. Duke
Curator, Library of Congress