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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Eric Kleefeld Retweeted Jeet Heer
Stan Lee has done this on multiple occasions! But still not good enough.
@HeerJeethttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/794013204544253953 …Eric Kleefeld added,
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It's hard to figure out but Ditko wants something specific from Lee. He's said something like "Stan knows what he has to say."
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He was angry that Stan "considered" Ditko a co-creator, the grammar wasn't precise enough for him.
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I think Jonathan Ross' document "In Search of Steve Ditko" related that story. Ditko wants an unqualified admission by Stan.
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