Post by Prime etc. on Mar 18, 2019 19:46:18 GMT
He saw the (first) Spider-Man film. He had mixed feelings about it and said it was too dark and he did not like its portrayal of the military and businessmen.
He talked about the Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon serials and other such serials like “The Shadow” with Victor Jory, and noted how the actors said that despite the young audience for such fare, they always played their roles straight. This is not what happened with the “Batman” TV show or “The Shadow” movie. They did not respect the material and played it for laughs. I said that kids can see right through material that is not taken seriously by its creators, and Ditko emphatically agreed.
..He had not seen the film “Daredevil,” but someone wrote him and said it, too, was a very dark film.He said comics today don’t have heroic characters anymore. They are too dark.
The Spider-Man story development in the early stages of “Amazing Spider-Man” collaboration with Lee went as follows: Ditko and Lee would have a story discussion. Ditko would leave, pencil out the story and then, inside the panels, he’d write in the “panel script” (suggested dialogue and narration). He’d then bring it back in to Lee. They’d discuss the story from start to finish, Ditko would annotate changes outside the panels, and then Ditko would leave. Lee would then write in the final dialogue and the book would be lettered. Ditko would come in, take the pages back, and then make any changes during the inking process.
Ditko said Lee wanted a Spider-Girl after just a few issues. He had no long-term vision for Spider-Man. He never thought about what he would do with the characters from one issue to the next. He’d just say, “Let’s make Attuma the villain,” and Ditko said he would have to talk him out of it. Ditko said he started doing the plots all by himself “around issue 18 or so.” At around that same point, he said Lee stopped talking to him, so he plotted the remaining issues in his Spider-Man run with no input from Lee.
Ditko felt the credits should not have read, “Written by Stan Lee.” They should have read, “Dialogue by Stan Lee.”
Ditko said he was absolutely going to make Norman Osborne the Green Goblin. He was setting up Osborne, which is why his son Harry Osborne was introduced as Peter’s classmate in college.
The Green Goblin face was based on a medieval goblin gargoyle one might see on an old building.
Norman Osborne’s first appearance was at a club with J. Jonah Jameson, and he was unnamed. I asked Ditko about Osborne’s unique hairstyle, and he said he wanted a look that was distinctive and different to set Osborne apart from other characters. He added that such clarity was an important part of the story communication process.
The three-part story arc in “Amazing Spider-Man” #31-33, where Aunt May is dying, was intentionally designed to occur just as Peter Parker started college – for maximum dramatic effect.
The robots in “Amazing Spider-Man” #37 were designed to be a step ahead of robot designs from that period.
The name “Stephen Strange” was Lee’s idea. “It was Stan’s little joke,” Ditko said, adding that he never would have used that name for Dr. Strange. Ditko said he did, however, occasionally work the names of people he knew into stories.
The Spider-Man story development in the early stages of “Amazing Spider-Man” collaboration with Lee went as follows: Ditko and Lee would have a story discussion. Ditko would leave, pencil out the story and then, inside the panels, he’d write in the “panel script” (suggested dialogue and narration). He’d then bring it back in to Lee. They’d discuss the story from start to finish, Ditko would annotate changes outside the panels, and then Ditko would leave. Lee would then write in the final dialogue and the book would be lettered. Ditko would come in, take the pages back, and then make any changes during the inking process.
Ditko said Lee wanted a Spider-Girl after just a few issues. He had no long-term vision for Spider-Man. He never thought about what he would do with the characters from one issue to the next. He’d just say, “Let’s make Attuma the villain,” and Ditko said he would have to talk him out of it. Ditko said he started doing the plots all by himself “around issue 18 or so.” At around that same point, he said Lee stopped talking to him, so he plotted the remaining issues in his Spider-Man run with no input from Lee.
Ditko felt the credits should not have read, “Written by Stan Lee.” They should have read, “Dialogue by Stan Lee.”
Ditko said he was absolutely going to make Norman Osborne the Green Goblin. He was setting up Osborne, which is why his son Harry Osborne was introduced as Peter’s classmate in college.
The Green Goblin face was based on a medieval goblin gargoyle one might see on an old building.
Norman Osborne’s first appearance was at a club with J. Jonah Jameson, and he was unnamed. I asked Ditko about Osborne’s unique hairstyle, and he said he wanted a look that was distinctive and different to set Osborne apart from other characters. He added that such clarity was an important part of the story communication process.
The three-part story arc in “Amazing Spider-Man” #31-33, where Aunt May is dying, was intentionally designed to occur just as Peter Parker started college – for maximum dramatic effect.
The robots in “Amazing Spider-Man” #37 were designed to be a step ahead of robot designs from that period.
The name “Stephen Strange” was Lee’s idea. “It was Stan’s little joke,” Ditko said, adding that he never would have used that name for Dr. Strange. Ditko said he did, however, occasionally work the names of people he knew into stories.