1. Steve Ditko, the co-creator of Spider-Man & Dr. Strange, is 89 years old today & still producing gonzo comics.
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2. I want to revisit an old story I told about how reading Ayn Rand cost Ditko between $50 and $100 million.
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3. Ditko is the primary creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. He can sue for a share of those characters but likely won't. Here's why.
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4. 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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5. Nominally Lee was the writer while Ditko and Kirby were the artists. But it's more complicated than that.
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6. Ditko & Kirby designed the characters and drew the stories first after minimal consultation with Lee. Then Lee added dialogue & captions
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some say Kirby and Ditko already write the dialogue and Lee made changes of what he liked and didn't like.
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That's true -- they wrote in initial dialogue
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