Should Lee/ Ditko be considered a different writer than Stan Lee?

[Mr. NickerNacker]

Well then if that's the case, looks like Stan Lee takes sole credit for not only the best Spider-Man story ever written, but possibly the best Marvel comic ever written, Amazing Fantasy #15. Not only that, but the first 17 issues, arguably the first 10 are the highest quality of the run, where Amazing idea after idea pops out with excellent dialogue. How would the editor of this voting column justify that? He can't. It's a bad column with bad decision making.

Not really. Lee and Ditko collaborated on the plots for Amazing Fantasy #15 and Amazing Spider-Man #1-17. Starting from issue #18, Lee had no idea what the plots would be until Ditko handed in his artwork for the issue. Basically they stopped communicating to each other at this point. Sol Brodsky was the middle man between them.

[Mister Mets]

Well then if that's the case, looks like Stan Lee takes sole credit for not only the best Spider-Man story ever written, but possibly the best Marvel comic ever written, Amazing Fantasy #15. Not only that, but the first 17 issues, arguably the first 10 are the highest quality of the run, where Amazing idea after idea pops out with excellent dialogue. How would the editor of this voting column justify that? He can't. It's a bad column with bad decision making.

I'd argue that in terms of the writing the later issues are slightly stronger.

The first ten issues are notable mainly for all the cool villains. Although it's hardly given that the first ten issues would introduce so many lasting bad guys, so Lee and Ditko deserve a lot of credit for that.