Posts tagged spider-man
Posts tagged spider-man
Future surveillance technologist Kennny Schaffer in his days promoting the Amazing Spider-Man: From Beyond The Grave album, 1972.
Spider-Man by Frank Miller
Romita Redux in The Ann Arbor Argus, 1969.
Art by Gary Grimshaw.
Mission: Crush the Oppressor!
Spider-Man at Notre Dame, 1975.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, 1997.
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.
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
This is it—with this advertisement, the Marvel Age truly began. The first branding of the “Marvel Comics Group.” The first mention of “The House of Ideas.” The first time this many characters from different titles shared a page.
From Fantastic Four #14, published February 12, 1963.
John Romita sketch for “Spidey Kids” proposal.
This is cute until you realize it could be by Al Columbia.
Spider-Man in “About to Get Woke”
Art by John Romita and Jim Mooney
Words by Stan Lee
Lettering by Artie Simek
1968
List of Marvel Characters, Ranked by Importance. Circa 1972.
This was used as a guide for companies who were interested in licensing characters from Marvel.
Spider-Man and Spider-Woman by Dennis Fujitake, 1978
From Amazing Spider-Man #219 by Luke McDonnell.
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.”
Here’s a 1989 ad for Albert Pyun’s Captain America, produced by Menahem Golan for 21st Century Film—and a tease for Spider-Man, the rights to which Golan had transferred from Cannon. (And that’s the simplified version.)
Unlike earlier ads, this included a creator credit for Jack Kirby and Joe Simon.
(You can read about all this and more in Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.)