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Ben Mcvay
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The recent Spidey threads made me think this would be a fun discussion. If you had to choose between Ditko & Romita Sr. on Spidey who would you pick? I'd have to go with Romita. The reasons are: I think his art fit the book perfectly for the Peter Parker stuff (looked like a Romance comic in some respects) and also because when I was a kid (70's/80's) his Spider-Man (or at the very least his style for Spider-Man) was what was used for a lot of promotional material so it is really what i grew up on.
Edited by Ben Mcvay on 05 January 2012 at 8:25am
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Kip Lewis
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Romita; just have never been a fan of Ditko's work. I find Romita to
more the style I like.
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Joel Tesch
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Ditko. First Spider-Man I read via Marvel Tales. I liked the quirky aspect of Ditko's art. Plus, Ditko at his best is tremendous...and different.
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Eric Doyle
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Ditko. His non-muscular, acrobatic Spider-man is more to my liking. My first exposure to Spider-man was the small pocketbooks with the early Ditko Spider-man.
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Greg Reeves
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QUOTE:
Romita; just have never been a fan of Ditko's work. I find Romita to
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Exactly my thoughts.
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Robbie Moubert
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As a kid I wasn't a big Ditko fan but as I got older I came to appreciate his work a lot more, particularly on Spider-Man. My first exposure to the character though was through reprints of Romita's work and his will always be my Spider-Man.
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John Byrne
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Ditko.Second on my list would be Gil Kane INKED by Romita -- especially after Romita's inks underwent a subtle change and became more lush and dark.
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Michael Penn
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I love John Romita's Spider-Man. His version is the one I first discovered. It's great in its own right and I'll always have a special affection for it. In short order, though, I got hold as a kid of the Ditko version and I quickly discovered that...
Ditko is definitive. Nobody who followed, in my opinion, made Spider-Man's powers look and work better than Ditko. And his Peter Parker also is by far my favorite.
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Paulo Pereira
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Tough choice. I think I'd give the edge to Ditko. If I'd my druthers, I'd have Romita inking Ditko.
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Joe Alexander
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I've thought about this very thing many times over the years and it has been the hardest of my comics related questions to figure out--but ultimately I have to go with Romita. I started on Spidey with him and maybe it is as simple as that, his Spider-Man is Spider-Man to me. I read the Ditko work soon after (maybe concurrently)in reprints and loved them too.
Intellectually I appreciate the genius of Ditko's work, and the issue where Spidey perseveres and gets out from under the crushing machinery is probably my favorite Spider-Man moment ever, but there was just something magical about discovering the "Marvel" New York city through Romita's Spider-Man that really connected with my younger mind.
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Wallace Sellars
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I like the lean "awkwardness" of Steve Ditko's Spider-Man, but grew to love the character while reading stories drawn by John Romita, Sr.
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Robert Bradley
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Romita.
I grew up reading new stories done by Andru and reprints done by Ditko, Romita and Kane, and love them all, but Romita is my favorite Silver Age artist (just ahead of Gil Kane).I just love his slick, clean style.
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