I just read the "The Creativity of Steve Ditko" book.
It talks a bit about Eric Stanton and how he and Ditko shared studio space for a while in the early sixties.
I wonder if there is any conclusive proof that they both helped each other on the others works, by analyzing the published art of both,
especially the early Spiderman issues.
If you look at Stantons work, it sure looks a lot like Ditko!
According to Stantons daughter, in the interview in the book, he came up with the idea of the web shooter!
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