Spider-Man Discovered in the 1950s ?!?

[Bob Probert]

NY Post discovers blog article from 3 years ago; makes article about it.

Like it's been said earlier, the case is a lot less compelling when you see the costume in color.

But they are pretty similar if you ask me.

[Mister Mets]

Kurt Busiek, Steven Grant and Erik Larsen had a twitter conversation about Ditko's influences, and the costume came up.

https://twitter.com/KurtBusiek/statu...31619395371008

[boots]

i’d add to that, that sometimes you aren’t aware of your influences. not just because we take on a lot subconsciously but we also forget

[Bob Probert]

Kurt Busiek, Steven Grant and Erik Larsen had a twitter conversation about Ditko's influences, and the costume came up.

https://twitter.com/KurtBusiek/statu...31619395371008

This topic will NEVER die.

It has to be one of the most intriguing comic book stories and mystery's of all time.

[jackolover]

I thought Ditko had nothing to do with the initial concept of Spider-Man. Stan Lee got Kirby to do a few pages of Spider-Man but Stan thought it needed to be less grandiose, so he gave the project to Steve Ditko, who dumped Jack Kirby’s costume and came up with his own, as well as completely overhauling the characters powers and makeup. Stan wanted a teenager so kids could relate to him, and Ditko made him a darker character full of self doubt and insecurities. After Stan gave the project to Ditko, and Stan thought the Ditko version was more what Stan had in mind, then Ditko’s Spider-Man was published, and the rest is history.

Another consideration to be taken into account is that when Stan suggested a Spider-Man to the publisher, Martin Goodman, Martín told Stan no, it was a bad idea because it would scare the kids. Stan couldn’t get the story published, but then the last issue of Amazing Fantasy was going to be done and Stan sneaked the Ditko story in that. So you have to realise that Spider-Man wasn’t even allowed to see the light of day. The unusual circumstance of a final issue came around, and the editor, Stan, decided to sneak the Spider-Man story in that. Now how risky would it have been for Stan to do that against his bosses wishes? You can see Stan must have been a very precocious employee to take a stab in the dark by publishing Spider-Man. They were different times in the early Silver Age at Marvel, where super hero stories were a novelty rather than a certainty. There were only two super hero stories established at Marvel at that point in time - the Fantastic Four and the Hulk. The rest were a plethora of Westerns, Romances, War, and funnies. There must have been quite a few suggested stories by Stan to Goodman, and a lot were rejected, while Marvel were trying to relaunch super hero comics. Spider-Man got to the public by the skin of its teeth.