October 17, 2018
Steve Ditko's Last Issue | The Amazing Spider-Man #38
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Spider-Man's original artist and co-writer Steve Ditko departs the series not with a bang but with a whimper. "Just A Guy Named Joe" has a pretty good start (in the opinion of your podcast co-hosts, at least) but falls apart. Maybe editor/scripter Stan Lee was ready to move on, maybe Steve Ditko didn't bother thinking it through!