From Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #1

Some context

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.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    15 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