Q&A with Mark Howland

Which piece in your gallery is your favorite and why?

Ditko. No, Kirby. No, no, Romita, Sr. Frazetta. Wait! Including strip art?? Carol Day. I'm lost. The Marvel Bullpen, I grew up with. David Wright adopted me much later.

Please tell us a little about yourself.

I'm a high school English teacher. I get paid by the word.

How long have you been collecting comic art and what prompted you to start?

Since the early 2000s. Because I'm slow, I didn't know you could collect comic art before then.

How do you display/store your collection at home?

Hang and hide, walls and closet.

What are your top five most wanted original pages or commissions?

FF 48 cover. We're joking here, right? Alrighty, then: any Ditko ASM title splash. Or any ASM Romita, Sr interior page with Spidey fighting the Goblin.