Found out Stan Lee only wrote the first 10 pages of Amazing Fantasy #15 and it kinda threw me

I was digging through some old interviews on a comic history site last night and saw a letter from Steve Ditko where he said he plotted most of that issue after Stan's opening. I always figured Stan wrote the whole thing since he got the credit. Does anyone else get weirded out when you learn the real behind-the-scenes splits on these old books?

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cora_scott7729d ago

Damn, that hits different. I always thought Stan was the main writer on that issue since he got all the credit for creating Spider-Man. That really changes how I see the whole story behind the first appearance.

jamie_white29d ago

@cora_scott77 reading Kirby and Ditko's actual credits made me dig up my old Amazing Fantasy #15 reprint to double check everything too.

miam7525d agoMost Upvoted

Ditko's layouts tell the real story honestly. You can see his storytelling style all over those early issues, it's night and day from the stuff Stan actually scripted alone. Compare something like Amazing Fantasy #15 to a Lee solo script like the early FF issues - the pacing, the panel structure, the way the dialogue fits the action. Ditko was basically choreographing the whole dance and Stan just added the music. Always wild how much the "bullpen" myth made everyone think one guy did everything.