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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Dec 2021

      1. As Spider-Man leaps to top of box office charts, worth remembering so popular a character was created by a true eccentric. Steve Ditko, the primary creator, shunned the spotlight (unlike credit-hog Stan Lee), living in overlapping covert worlds of fetish porn & libertarianism

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Dec 2021

      2. As I discussed earlier, from 1958-1968 (which encompass years he created Spider-Man) Ditko shared a studio with Eric Stanton, a specialist in fetish art. The two artists influenced each other & a fetish flair shaped Ditko's character design.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-sexual-subtext-of-spider-man?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Dec 2021

      3. During the years where he collaborated with Stanton and co-created Spider-Man (not just drawing the art but plotting stories, designing characters & providing first draft of dialogue), Ditko became Ayn Rand devotee. Which reinforced the fetishist proclivities.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Dec 2021

      4. Ditko's Randianism is usually talked about in terms of Mr. A and other characters he did for small-press (stories he owned & which were not commercial). Those do provide stark black & white morality of productive heroes versus parasitespic.twitter.com/r1z5aZR8Ev

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Dec 2021

      5. Spider-Man is usually not seen as so bluntly Randian, but if you read the Ditko created stories closely, what comes through is an emotional libertarianism: not so much an economic doctrine but a vibe: the lone individual genius besieged by unappreciative society.pic.twitter.com/X7BefiNJEZ

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Dec 2021

          6. This emotional libertarianism (sense of being unappreciated, scorned, disdained by the unthinking mob while possessing secret gifts) is the true appeal of Randianism, more than the cod anti-statism (which is superstructural). For more on Ditko & Rand:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-spider-mans-libertarian-roots?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …

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        1. Dump Ump‏ @DumpOnTheUmp 19 Dec 2021
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          Yeah, but Spider-Man’s number 1 characteristic is that he is absolutely loathed by the NYPD. Which somehow got lost after 9/11.

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        1. Dan Miller‏ @meelar 19 Dec 2021
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          Now that you mention it, I can see this influence all the way up through the present day. This was basically the plot of the 2018 video game, for instance.

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        1. Eric ectocoolerPog‏ @Simpsonsref 19 Dec 2021
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          I’ve always been interested in the difference between Lee/Ditko Spider-Man and Lee/JRS Spider-Man. To me Lee/Ditko Spider-Man always seemed a little angry and creepy.

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        2. ben schwartz‏ @benschwartz_ 19 Dec 2021
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          i see jj as the randian figure who hates spiderman for his aimless altruism. jj turned a floor of the bugle bldg into a gallery for his picassos and monets, work he keeps from the masses who can’t comprehend them. he and kingpin do aspen panels together on perfecting new york.

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        3. ben schwartz‏ @benschwartz_ 19 Dec 2021
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          nothing makes kingpin and jameson laugh harder than their annual new year’s champagne toast where they both say, “with great power comes great responsibility.”

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