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...it's possible the graduation storyline had been suggested to Ditko by Stan or discussed by them back when they were still speaking to each other, even though it was not used until many months later. But even if that were the case, Ditko wouldn't have plotted and drawn that story if he was opposed to the idea of Peter graduating. Ditko was the one driving the bus at the time that story appeared, and no major plotline went into the book if he did not want it.
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But as editor-in-chief, wasn't Stan managing the whole "bus" company? And if aging characters was happening on all lines across the company, why is it any less likely that this was assumed from the get-go and that Ditko drew it as part of his job but disagreed with it?
I understand the basis of your presumptions, Jason, and I apologize if this seems like I'm artificially making any major issue here, except that JB says something different and, for whatever reason, he doesn't wish to explain why. For me, one who is both not deeply informed about this era but also very interested in it, that's pretty tantalizing: thus, giving JB the "insider's" benefit of the doubt, I'm just presuming the other way than what you've been asserting, and doing so doesn't appear to be any less likely.
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