March 2009
whole number 231
2009 pages 017-024
Steve Ditko's "The Ever Unwilling" essay leads off this issue. Ditko had put to rest the oft-repeated claim that he left Spider-Man over disputes about the identity of the Green Goblin years earlier, but it kept being repeated, so he states it even more directly here. Spoiler alert, it still didn't take and is still repeated...
"I knew from Day One, from the first GG story, who the GG would be. I absolutely knew because I planted him in J. Jonah Jameson's businessman's club." -- Steve Ditko
Also this issue, part 23 of the Carl Wessler bibliography lists work from 1951 and 1952, working for Timely, Lev Gleason, Ziff-Davis and others.
Notes on the passing of six artists: Mar Amongo, Bob Bindig, Wayne Howard, Al Scaduto, Howie Schneider and Elmer Wexler.
There's a long Under The Gun with some discussion of Ditko's recent work and other topics by Daniel Tesmoingt, Bill Fields, Samuel Catalino, Joe Frank, Frederick A. Utech, William Parker, Dave Varine, Nick Caputo, Robert Rowe and Gavin Callaghan.
