3. Marvel Comics, as we know it today, was created in the early 1960s by a core team of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko.
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4. Nominally Lee was the writer while Ditko and Kirby were the artists. But it's more complicated than that.
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5. Ditko & Kirby designed the characters and drew the stories first after minimal consultation with Lee. Then Lee added dialogue & captions
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6. So, in a very real sense Kirby and Ditko were co-creators and co-writers of every story they worked on. They plotted & created characters
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7. Lee was on staff, Kirby & Ditko were freelancers. But Lee (speaking for owner) made promises to Kirby and Ditko.
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8. Kirby and Ditko were given to understand that if characters they co-created took off, there would be money in them, informally.
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9. Spider-Man created in 1962 by Lee and Ditko, based on earlier concept by Kirby and Joe Simon
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10. While working on Spider-Man, circa 1963, Ditko started reading Ayn Rand and quickly became devoted follower.
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11. The Rand that attacked Ditko was the Fountainhead Rand, the myth of the heroic artist who rejects compromise.
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12. By 1966, as Marvel is making more and more money from licencing, Ditko feels he's taken advantage of. Quits Marvel.
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13. When he quit Marvel, Ditko sent a letter to Kirby saying he should do the same. Kirby was tempted but had wife, 4 kids. Ditko single.
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14. Later, Lee asked Ditko to return to Spider-Man. Ditko: "Not until [owner] Goodman pays me the royalties he owes me."
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15. Post-1966 Ditko's work divides into two: personal small press stories (often Randian tracts) & commercial hack-work.
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