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[edit] Citation request

RE: The Tales to Astonish Incredible Hulk feature, which states that artist Dirko "... developed the notion of Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk under extreme emotional stress, rather than with the rising of the moon or other, previously muddled reasons." Please give citation that states that this was not primarily the work of writer-editor Stan Lee, or Lee and Ditko co-plotting. Thanks. -- Tenebrae 00:56, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Footnote 11 refers to a book, which implies the quote is from there. However that book is sourcing an interview with Steve Ditko. It appeared in a fanzine produced by Mike and Richard Howell called Marvel Main. Issue #4, published in 1969.

John Bacon the Information Broker Infobroker 05:32, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ditko, The Goblin and Departure

We've heard this story about the Goblin Unmasked controversy but it is a myth. In an article for WIZARD MAGAZINE Ditko and Tom DeFalco talked about Ditko's departure. Again, I don't have the material with me at this time. However...

Stan Lee said Ditko had stopped delivering his drawings to Marvel himself and had started using messangers.

Ditko intimated: that Lee had no idea what was in Ditko's plots at that point until he saw the drawings, so there wouldn't have been a conflict over the Goblin. Indeed, The Norman Osborn character had begun appearing in many Ditko Spidey stories and was even identified (but not named) by J.J.J as a fellow member of a club Jonah belonged to. And as we saw, Ditko did draw the story(Amazing Spider-Man 37) when Osborn revealed he was up to something.

DeFalco commented that Ditko was fed up with "meddling" and the final straw was when Martin Goodman wanted to include more "romance" in the strip. In fact, Ditko was replaced by John Romita, a former artist of romance comics. DeFalco also noted that Ditko put a lot of "himself" in Spidey so this was especially bothersome.

In Ronin Ro's book, Tales To Astonish, an anonymous(I think) third party claims that Goodman reneged on a "promise" he may or may not have made to Ditko and Kirby concerning Spidey and the FF. Along with the issues mentioned above, Ditko decided to leave and encouraged Kirby to do the same. Kirby couldn't because of familial obligations but Ditko left anyway. I don't know how much credibility should be given to Ro's book but Mark Evanier did confirm that Goodman changed his mind about a promise he made to Jack so this last part may not be far off concerning Steve. I will provide citations for the info I have, at a later date. Bernard ferrell (talk) 19:05, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

The Steve Ditko\Tom DeFalco information is from the article WHO IS STEVE DITKO? by Christopher Lawrence, WIZARD #124 Jan 2002 issue.Bernard ferrell (talk) 15:58, 10 April 2008 (UTC)