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Gordie Lachance and Chris Chambers in Stand by Me (1986)

Although I hadn’t seen him in more than ten years, I know I’ll miss him forever. I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

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Cover detail from Strange Tales #128. Pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by…Sol Brodsky?

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Above: Stan Lee’s open letter about Steve Ditko’s role in the creation of Spider-Man, 1999.

After Stan Lee reminisced in Comic Book Marketplace about his inspirations for writing an acclaimed late 1965 issue of Amazing Spider-Man, Steve Ditko broke his long silence. “Stan never knew what was in my plotted stories,” the artist wrote to the magazine’s editors, “until I took in the penciled story, the cover, my script and Sol Brodsky took the material from me and took it all into Stan’s office, so I had to leave without seeing or talking to Stan.” A few months later, after Lee was identified in Time as the creator of Spider-Man, Ditko popped up on that magazine’s letters page, too: “Spider-Man’s existence needed a visual concrete entity,” Ditko wrote. “It was a collaboration of writer-editor Stan Lee and Steve Ditko as co-creators.” This time Lee picked up the phone and called Ditko, for the first time in more than thirty years.

“Steve said, ‘Having an idea is nothing, because until it becomes a physical thing, it’s just an idea,’ ” Lee recalled. “And he said it took him to draw the strip, and to give it life, so to speak, or to make it actually some- thing tangible. Otherwise, all I had was an idea. So I said to him, ‘Well, I think the person who has the idea is the person who creates it. And he said, ‘No, because I drew it.’ Anyway, Steve definitely felt that he was the co-creator of Spider-Man. And that was really, after he said it, I saw it meant a lot to him that was fine with me. So I said fine, I’ll tell everybody you’re the co-creator. That didn’t quite satisfy him. So I sent him a letter.” Text from Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.

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Peter Parker embraces Objectivism, 1962   “Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal wlth one another must deal by trade and give value for value.” —Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1937

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“It’s – a Girl!” Love at First Sight for Clea and Doctor Strange From Strange Tales #126, November 1964. Art by Steve Ditko. Colors by Stan Goldberg. Letters by Artie Simek. Words by Stan Lee.

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The Devil’s Rejects |2005| Rob Zombie

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“What, still here?” (WIP)

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Occupy Earth-616. CAPTAIN AMERICA #132 (December, 1970). Art by Gene Colan and Dick Ayers. Words by Stan Lee. Lettering by Artie Simek. Read more about Marvel’s politics in 1970 here.

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The Empire’s Executor arrives in Marvel’s Star Wars #50. Cover by David Marquez.

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Certain points of view and all that. 😉

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friend: wow you’re such a kind person!

me: 

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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) Directed by Travis Knight

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january

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What We Do In The Shadows (2014) dir. Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement

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Tim Curry photographed by Mick Rock | 1974

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