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| If, as we saw formerly, Spider-Man's succes would set the war between Ditko and Marvel, in the beginning, on the contrary, it made Stan Lee change his mind about Ditko's capacity to succeed in drawing a super hero. So, in July 1963 Ditko could create his own series. The result was astonishing. DOCTOR STRANGE hoovered in some parallele purely esthetical world, rid of any figurative bondage. The comic was a hit at hippies' who though they found back in it L.S.D trips background. To the great displaisure of Ditko who hated hippies. |
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| The same month, Lee and Kirby assembled all their heroes, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, Ant Man and the Wasp, in a same team, the AVENGERS. It'd soon be a pretty mess. One month Iron Man didn't come since, as Tony Stark, he was dead in his own comic. It got better next month, death is never too serious with super heroes. But, then, it was Thor who went away several months in Asgard. In the end Stan Lee replaced the whole team with new boys who had no own series. But they had to call back the stars, for 't was them who made the sales. At a time, there was a new team, each month. And it's not so different today. |
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| The X-MEN, almost unnoticed on the moment, happent to be on the long term, the more important creation, not only of this mounth but (with Spider-Man) of this whole time. Stan Lee introduced with them a concept that further writers would develop fortunatelly: the mutants, persecuted by human kind and torn between the temptation to retort and the duty to stop those who yield to this temptation. It was to the X-Men that the Avengers stole this part of recruitment center in Marvel script. Stan Lee first devoted it to the school of mutants but the X-Men assumed it only from their second volume. Quick Silver and Scarlet Witch, two of the new folks of the first new Avengers team had been created for joining the X-Men. Stan Lee and Roy Thomas made a new atempt with Mimic(X-Men 27-29) but they gave up at once. Perhaps readers didn't love this half repenting foe that other X-Men themselve hated? It's only at the end of the first volume X-Men, in 1968-70, that were introduced Polaris, Havok or Sunfire who didn't become members of the team before the begining of the second volume, in 75. |
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