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“Below, Steve Ditko casually mentions being taken off Spider-Man and Dr. Strange “at times.” But when would that have been?
“Those fans who continually moan about my quitting Marvel, Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, act as if Marvel was/is a...

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Below, Steve Ditko casually mentions being taken off Spider-Man and Dr. Strange “at times.” But when would that have been?

“Those fans who continually moan about my quitting Marvel, Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, act as if Marvel was/is a southern plantation ruled by The Divine Right to Own Individuals as Slaves and that I, as a freelancer (not an employee), could at any time be (and was at times) taken off the S-M/DS strips, and given no work, had no right to quit and that I should be made to go back, be made to keep producing story ideas, panels, pages of story art and comic books for their gratification. Only they are free to act as they choose without penalties.”

—Steve Ditko, “The Ever Unreachable,” 2009

Just remembered today that the first time I’d heard of Breitbart was when Steve Ditko wrote for its Big Hollywood blog in 2009.

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seanhowe:
“ Amazing Spider-Man Annual #14 (1980). Art by Frank Miller; Words by Denny O'Neil.
Miller took storytelling advice from Jim Shooter; they’d get drinks and talk about Matt Murdock’s character and motivations. When Denny O’Neil took over the...

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Amazing Spider-Man Annual #14 (1980). Art by Frank Miller; Words by Denny O'Neil.

Miller took storytelling advice from Jim Shooter; they’d get drinks and talk about Matt Murdock’s character and motivations. When Denny O’Neil took over the editorial reins of Daredevil, he, too, took Miller under his wing. “He was one of the best students I ever had,” O’Neil said. “We would play volleyball on Sunday afternoons, and when everybody would walk to Nathan’s for hot dogs afterward, he’d ask me questions about my work. He became like a second son.” They shared meals two or three times a week, picking apart stories and discussing their craft. O’Neil hired Miller to draw an Amazing Spider-Man annual, and together they plotted a story in which Spider-Man, looking for Doctor Strange, found himself at a punk-rock show at the Bowery club C.B.G.B. It was a perfect introduction to Frank Miller’s aesthetic: while the rest of Marvel’s heroes were still lingering at stale discos, Miller ripped it up and started again, with a stripped-down vocabulary and a throwback to the grit, violence, and threat of the early 1950s.


Text from Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

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Vogue discovers “underground comic-book hero” Spider-Man, 1973. “He is the kind of hero you haven’t yet seen in movies or on TV.”

Vogue discovers “underground comic-book hero” Spider-Man, 1973. “He is the kind of hero you haven’t yet seen in movies or on TV.”

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