Here's a bit that made me laugh out loud from David Letterman's show — the one he did from the Ed Sullivan Theater on CBS. The premise of the bit was to see how many guys in Spider-Man suits they could get into a Jamba Juice shop on the ground floor of an office building across the street from their theater.
And one of the things that made this extra-funny to me was that I'd been in that Jamba Juice and I knew the office building was where DC Comics and MAD magazine had their offices. Furthermore, it was located about a block-and-a-half from where Steve Ditko had his office. I'd lost touch with Mr. Ditko by this time but several folks who'd met him told me that he was quite bitter about how successful his co-creation Spider-Man had become and he refused to talk about it, at least with them.
So imagine (as I did) that Ditko is on his way home from his office or otherwise walking past the Jamba Juice and he decides to stop in and get a Caribbean Passion Smoothie. And while he's waiting for his order, all these Spider-Men start wandering in…