1. Let's talk a little about Charlton Comics, the mafia, and Steve Ditko.
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2. Chartlon was a third-string (maybe fourth string) comics publishing company specializing in war, horror, westerns:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Comics …
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3. "it was common knowledge in the publishing industry that Charlton, Capital, et al., were mob-owned businesses." Ted White, TCJ, #112
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4. White's allegations are starting to be substantiated by researches who are finding overlaps between mafia & Charlton management.
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5. Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man & Dr. Strange, had longstanding good working relationship with Charlton from 1950s to 1970s/1980s.
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6. Ditko liked working with Charlton because although their pay rate was lower they gave have much more autonomy than bigger publishers.
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7. Where this gets interesting is that Ditko, a devoted Randian, did many stories about how any compromise with evil is corrupting.
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8. In Ditko's didactic comics, point is often made that citizens who make deals with gangsters are as bad as gangsters.
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9. For Ditko (in comics) a is a, not-a is not-a, there is no gray, only black and white.
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10. I used to read Ditko's anti-compromise stories as didactic and hectoring
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11. But maybe those stories about the evils of compromise were confessions?
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