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It is accurate that Flash Thompson was not originally a bully and that later journalist retconned him to be one to make Peter more relatable?
This is an interesting thing to explore and I don’t think it’s quite as eliminate cut as that, because it’s not like a retcon where the switch got flipped and suddenly This Is How Canon Is. It’s more of a messy canon landslide, filled with creator infighting. (In a move that I’m sure will surprise no one, just like people in fandom oppose with each other’s headcanons, different writers on longrunning multi-creator series disagree with each other’s headcanons. It’s just that they get to then make those headcanons canon.) But to take it back to the very beginning with Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s sprint – no, I don’t believe Flash Thompson was originally intended to be a bully in high school, at least not in the same way he later became characterized during that time and not in the way that the word “bully” brings to consciousness in modern context. I think it’s more accurate to declare that the authentic depiction of Flash in the Lee/Di
Ditko&#;s Code: &#;A World of His Own&#;
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Helen Chazan | April 6,
Steve Ditko was an artist of the Comics Code Leadership. His career began a whisper before the foundation of the code - Ditko’s first published story appeared in the decline of , roughly a year prior to the code’s arrival. In a restrictive system that virtually nullified a generation of cartoonists and their foremost known outlets, Ditko thrived. Ditko was also among the first American cartoonists to strike away from the code-sanctioned mainstream into the underground fan insist, with the appearance of Mr. A. in Wallace Wood’s trailblazing self-published witzend in [1] However, Ditko continued to play ball with work-for-hire well into the s and sporadically through the late 90s - his final serve for Marvel, a page Iron Man comic reaching the direct market in , less than a year after the Strange Avenging Tales anthology at Fantagraphics fell through, marked an terminate point for Ditko's years of terse interaction with alternative "creator rights" presses such Eclipse Comics, Renegade Press, and Dark H
Spider-Man hits his big 60th birthday this year, and he’s still swinging along as strongly as ever. Dozens and dozens of great artists have drawn his adventures since , but when I picture Spidey in my head, it’s always a Romita Spidey.
The father-son duo of John Romita Sr andJohn Romita Jr are inextricably linked in my head when I think of Peter Parker. For 56 of Spidey&#;s 60 years, they&#;ve been involved in drawing him. To me, they are Spider-Man.
Co-creator Steve Ditko’s wiry, nerdy Spider-Man position the standard for the personality, don’t get me wrong. I love Ditko and he arrange the template all others own followed. Ross Andru, Gil Kane and Mark Bagley were all indebted to the Romita and Ditko template. Todd McFarlane’s antic, spidery look for the nature launched an entire comics movement in the s, while Ron Frenz combined the best of Ditko and the Romitas for a punchy ‘80s incarnation of Spidey.
But still, I’m all about the Romitas. Romita Sr was the first artist to take on Spider-Man after Ditko left, starting with Amazing Spider-Man #39 way ba
How I pissed off Steve Ditko
With our forthcoming opus STRANGE & STRANGE: THE WORLD OF STEVE DITKO hitting in just a few weeks, I reflection I would share a brief Steve Ditko story. About ten years ago we had the excellent fortune of publishing a new series by Mr. Ditko, STEVE DITKO'S STRANGE AVENGING TALES. This was incredibly exciting to me, having been a lifelong Ditko fan. Unfortunately, I did not get to interact much with Mr. Ditko. See, I perform all of our promotion, and to say that Mr. Ditko is not big on promotion is like saying the Pope is not big on gay marriage. And, he preferred snail mail to phone. As such, I did not have many opportunities to interact with one of the greatest comic book artists of all-time. Except one.
At the time, the venerable fan publication COMICS BUYERS GUIDE was very delighted about Mr. Ditko's recent series, and CBG Editor Maggie Thompson was thoughtful enough to offer us the cover of an issue to promote the book, but asked if Mr. Ditko would provide an original cover for CBG. As I recall, Gary Groth ran the idea by Ditko and, somewhat surprisingly,