If you have listened to the most recent podcast, and I recommend you do it’s a great interview, you’ll remember writer Roger Stern talking about what Steve Ditko’s Mary Jane might have looked like. On his run Ditko hid Mary Jane behind various objects in her first few mentions. It wasn’t until Amazing Spider-Man #42 when John Romtia gave us the knocked-out red-head. Stern says he came across this image in some comic years ago and it looks like what he suspects would look like a Ditko imagined Mary Jane. What are your thoughts? Also does anyone know what issue this panel appeared in?
@DMoon:
Yes, no one said it was: “Stern says he came across this image in some comic years ago and it looks like what he suspects would look like a Ditko imagined Mary Jane.”
That’s not Ditko
That’s supposed to be a teenage Mary Jane?! Yikes!
Her hair is eating her hands!!!
Yeah the image is photoshopped. That’s why I’m curious to see the original panel.
Ditko’s Mary Jane might not even have been a redhead.