24. Kirby's family sued under law, and ended up settling with Marvel. Settlement undisclosed but one account says around $30-50 million.
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25. Ditko is still alive, 89 years old, and in a position to sue Marvel over Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. I don't think he'll do it though.
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26. Randian pseudo-logic has helped Steve Ditko reconcile himself to his fate. He made a deal, did the job. No need to revisit past.
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27. More Randian pseudo-logic. A deal is a deal. You don't go back & use the law to renegotiate.Either you live by your word & you are false
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28. More than that, Ditko has the Randian amour propre: he's the true creator, Rourke & Galt, who turns back on corrupt society.
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29. It's entirely possible that becoming a Randian will cost Ditko what he could earn in lawsuit: between $50 million & $100 million.
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30. In conclusion: listen to me kids: don't read Ayn fucking Rand. Or at the very least, don't take her seriously.
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31. A further point: Ditko has made it clear he wants to be recognized as co-creator of Spider-Man even as he makes no moves to sue Marvel.
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32. Ditko does want something: he wants Marvel and Stan Lee to admit -- openly, publicly, without coercion -- that he co-created Spider-Man
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33. If you read his essays, it's very important to Ditko that Lee do this freely, without the courts or force. Acknowledge Ditko's work.
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34. The key is that Ditko is a moral absolutist, like Howard Rourke, like Mr. A, like Rorschach (Alan Moore's brilliant Ditko parody).
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35. Like Mr. A or Rorschach, Ditko will stand for absolute principal even in the face of worldly mockery.
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36. This is central: Ditko doesn't want to go to court to get Marvel & Lee to make admission because it would reduce him to their level.
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