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Joe Hollon
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I wonder how it would look in color...
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Awesome.
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Troy Nunis
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Ditko cover looks like an okay Splash page, Kirby cover looks like a great Cover.
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Joe Hollon
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I prefer the Ditko version by far. Same goes for Amazing Spider-Man #10.
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I'm with ya, Lance!
 
The cover to #10 bothered me when I was a kid*. It wasn't until sometime in the last decade that I ever saw Ditko's original, it was really an "ah ha!" moment. Ditko's cover just looks right and like it belongs among the other covers of the series.
*I had the good fortune of being introduced to the Ditko/Lee Spider-Man comics as one of my very first exposures to the character via 1980s Marvel Masterworks!
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Joe Hollon
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I have to go with the Kirby:
1. Spider-Man's pose is much more dynamic
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Really?
Dynamic-
pertaining to or characterized by energy or effective action; vigorously active or forceful; energetic
Interesting how people view art so differently!
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Steven Myers
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I love 'em both. In the end, I think the Kirby cover does highlight Spider-Man himself more, so I'd go with that one if I was editor.
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Andy Mokler
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I'd have to go with the Kirby cover.
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Tim O Neill
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I prefer the Kirby cover. The Ditko cover doesn't register as swinging through the air to me - I can't figure out what his legs are doing.
I love Ditko's work, but that rejected cover always seemed a bit off to me.
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Michael Hogan
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I gotta admit I like the uncluttered Kirby cover more. And it gives me a near-Detective Comics #27 feel to it, if you know what I mean.
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Michael Penn
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(The Ditko cover seems too busy to me)
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To me too, and it's mostly why I prefer the Kirby.
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Robert Cosgrove
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I like them both. Ditko's written about the cover, saying his idea was to give the reader Spider-man's perspective, a sense of how swing above the people below would feel, while Kirby reversed it and shows the onlooker's view, looking up at Spider-man swinging overhead. (I paraphrase from memory).
Edited by Robert Cosgrove on 03 January 2013 at 9:26pm
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Eric Kleefeld
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I think Hollywood has missed huge opportunities to use both of those covers as the basis for movie posters.
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Paul Greer
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Being that it was a first issue I see why they had Kirby redraw the cover. He makes it look more iconic in nature. As someone else said, it is less busy. Your focus is on Spider-Man and the crook. That makes for a good first issue cover.Personally, I think the Ditko cover blows the Kirby one out of the water artistically. In regards to issue 10 that was a huge mistake to change that cover. The Kirby one is pretty generic. The Ditko one is marvelous as a selling tool and artistically.
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