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Spider-mans Biggest Shame (hexbear.net)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #1

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Steve Ditko was famously a follower of Objectivism, a philosophy devised by writer Ayn Rand (her hit novel, Atlas Shrugged, starred her perfect ideal of an Objectivist hero, John Galt). His following of those beliefs sometimes affected the Spider-Man stories that he plotted (originally with Stan Lee and then by himself alone) before he left Marvel.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago

Be Steve Ditko

Help create Spider-Man

Support objectivism

Get screwed out of royalties because Stan Lee and the Marvel board use corporate loopholes to cut you out

complain, but not support creator's rights because that would go against the individual or corporate rights or something

Continue making weird indie comics that don't sell because you insist on making Objectivism the cornerstone of all your work

Die penniless and alone, your corpse not being discovered for weeks because you were so abrasive you had no one to check on you

It's tragically poetic