In the panorama of today's comics, Neil Gaiman is one of the most famous artists, author of works that are considered milestones of the medium, such as Sandman. Gaiman has often spoken of the great passion that binds him Spidermanand had the incredible opportunity to celebrate it in the special volume Amazing Fantasy #1000.
Justified "From Great Powers..."Written by Gaiman and illustrated by Steve McNiven, the story presents readers in an almost romantic way with the screenwriter's childhood relationship with the Tessiragnatele and appreciation for Steve Ditko, the co-creator of the superhero with Stan Lee.
As you can see in the first of the two tables below, a child is reading a comic book under the shade of a tree. This is little Gaiman himself, spending hours at the age of six Read the pages of POW! Magazine which also contained the Spider-Man stories.
And it is the child Gaiman who responds to the friendly hero, who in one of his most classic poses descends from a tree hanging from a spider's web and asks him what he is reading. Years later, the same author sees a friend of his walking away with Ditko, represented only by a black silhouette his indistinguishable glasses catch the eyeand sits next to Spider-Man, reminding him that they have met before.
Tables that mediate theAdmiration for Ditko's workwithout which there would have been neither Spider-Man nor Doctor Strange nor Hawk and many others, as Gaiman pointed out in several tweets in which he spoke about the memories of Spidey.
