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Tony Centofanti
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Ditko. His and Stan's run on Spider-Man is masterful. It's a toss up between that and Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four for my favorite super-hero comics.
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Sam Karns
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Romita because his artwork never worked against Stan's vision for the character.
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Nathan Greno
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Ditko.
His art really captured that quirky, awkward, teenage concept of the book. Romita style is REALLY appealing... but it's very handsome and heroic.
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Dan Avenell
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Ditko for establishing the language of Spider-Man, as has been mentioned. And for creating the look of the best villains.
Romita is such a close second though, beautiful art and oh so beautiful ladies (not Ditko's strong-point).
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Brian Floyd
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Romita Sr, by a country mile.
I prefer Ditko's work on Doctor Strange over his work on Spider-Man.
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John Mariani
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Ditko.
But with a great, great deal of love for Romita.
I don't know anything about sales or what have you : did sales go up when Romita took over? Was Romita's art more generally appealing to Joe Public?
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Fabrice Renault
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Ditko.
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Paul Greer
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From everything I've read sales did go up when Romita took over. I really believe Romita's work is more mainstream. However, Romita doesn't have the same creative fire that Ditko has. Ditko's Spider-Man was more Ditko than Stan, Romita's Spider-Man was more Stan than Romita. In the end that is the version most people prefer. However, I feel those 38 issues and two annuals by Ditko and Stan are comic book perfection.
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Aaron Smith
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I prefer Ditko's work on Doctor Strange over his work on Spider-Man.
*** Ditko owns Doctor Strange in my mind. With Spider-Man, I love many artists. Although Ditko is my favorite, Romita is way up there and others are pretty high on the list too. But when it comes to Dr. Strange, even Gene Colan, whose work means a lot to me, can only be a distant second to Ditko. Something about that Ditko Strange run is so unique, so surreal at times, so perfect that I don't think anyone can ever do with Strange what Ditko did. It's pure magic.
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Marc M. Woolman
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What I find interesting about the Ditko/Romita comparison is that when Romita first took over the book he drew a Spider-man very similar to Ditko's ending-his-run version of Spidey. It seems like whenever an example of Ditko's Spider-man is shown it is always from his early issues of the title, but I thinks Ditko's last 10 issues of Spidey were the best he ever did.
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Mark Haslett
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I realized something odd this morning regarding this.
Though I love Ditko's Spider-Man best of all, I prefer other artists to emulate Romita's design. I don't really like it when artists try to mimic Ditko's quirks.
So in general, if an artist tries to do Spider-Man and falls far from the model set by Romita, I'm usually left cold.
So Ditko is somehow the authentic item. But Romita's is the model for all else. Weird?
Not so coincidentally, John Byrne is an exception -- he manages to evoke Ditko without aping Ditko. I wouldn't mind if more guys did that.
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Joel Tesch
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Ron Frenz also could evoke Kitko w/o aping him. He was great.
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