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[luvdomus]

Ditko did his best work for James Warren's Creepy and Eerie magazines in the mid-to-late '60s. As innovative as his work prior to that was, I personally didn't like his drawing when I was a kid, and never bought an issue of Spiderman until John Romita took over in '66. I did, however think Ditko's work on Dr. Strange was intriguing. Romitas work was handsomer, more polished and to me he is the quintessential Spiderman artist.

[DeepSouthWrestling1]

@luvdomus : You miss what made Ditko's Spidey so groundbreaking... every other superhero was good looking and polished. What made Ditko's Spidey so special was the fact that Peter Parker was as close to a REAL teenager as you were gonna get in a mainstream comic. His New York was seedy and shady, much like NY really is. Romita made it seem like Spidey meets Archie, specifically with the whole MJ/Gwen romance triangle... Romita was good, but Ditko was revolutionary...

[luvdomus]

@DeepSouthWrestling1 Yes, I appreciate Ditko now as an adult more than I could as a kid.

[huh98]

As much as I respect him and his creations I never thought he was anywhere's near as good as Kirby. Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

[leroysquab]

Well, huh98, I guess the rub is an opinion is neither wrong nor right. I love Kirby too but comparing him to Ditko is exactly the case of comparing apple to orange. While Kirby's look was easily imitated and quickly became Marvel's style, Ditko's iconoclastic look could not be replaced. It bears noting that when Kirby went to DC, the editors had to have other artists go in and draw Superman's head over the top of Kirby's pics of him. The company had no such issue with Ditko's drawings.

[DeepSouthWrestling1]

@leroysquab : No, the editors didn't have to have other (ie: more bland) artists do Kirby's faces over, they chose to because they didn't understand Kirby. In hindsight, almost everyone involved in comics sees this as a monumental mistake. This is why DC got eclipsed by Marvel, they were thinking the characters sold the mags, while the artists had nothing to do with it... contempt for their audience. It's also worth noting that Ditko wasn't working on flagship characters, either...

[hanshotfirst1138]

What happened to part 2?

[harveydents]

Mark Millar is one of the biggest egomaniac in comics....

[Phillies64]

Agreed. I respect his talent, but his work seems to all style and no substance.

[duschkoph]

Steve Ditko made this character what it is today. No matter who takes over the books they all follow the pattern he set for this character.