2. Between 1958 and 1968, Steve Ditko, Spider-Man's primary creator, shared a studio with Eric Stanton, an artist who specialized in fetish art for, um, discriminating collectors. The two men would assist each other on art. Spider-Man was created in 1962, in the midst of this.
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3. Ur-Spider-Man was brought to Marvel in 1962 by Jack Kirby (who already created insect heroes like Ant Man & The Fly). Ditko tasked with doing character and substantially reinvented, especially costume & origins.
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4. In reimagining Spider-Man, Ditko used a costume owed something to a bondage story he and Stanton did in 1960 ("Black Widow Sorority" included in Diabolique Magazine #3 (1960)pic.twitter.com/PigYpCSOFe
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5. Ditko was a Randian libertarian. Intensely private, not much is known about his personal life, but his art certainly -- coupled with his friendship with Stanton -- shows a familiarity with the sexual underworld of 1960s New York. His characters had an East Village style.pic.twitter.com/bXkNGg6nvw
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6. More thoughts on sex and the single superhero or "Maybe Fredric Wertham Had a Point"https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-sexual-subtext-of-spider-man?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …
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I get this, but- the films are showcases of violence. And that’s ok?
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I mean they would be pretty dull otherwise so yeah? It’s the comics. It’s people in silly outfits having life-and-death magical fistfights. That’s the genre. Not really MY thing but the violence is not the problem lol.
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you basically see Kirsten Dunst‘a boobs in the first one and as a kid i thought that was cool
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OK yeah, no one wants to see Peter Parker having sex, but Tom Holland…? That’s another story altogether…
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Holland’s Spider-Man is still supposed to be a minor which makes giving him a sex scene pretty problematic.
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<stares in CW>
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