It's not a joke, dammit! It's DEADLY SERIOUS! Marston was the S&M version of an evangelist - if he'd thought he could've gotten away with it, he would've stood on his roof with a megaphone, yelling 'CHAIN EACH OTHER UP! IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO TRUE HAPPINESS!'

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ROTFL!

I think you're right, though.

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Well, seriously, the guy was a man with a mission - in his own way, he preached about his personal philosophies just as much as Steve Ditko did. And really, the guy practiced what he preached - from what I've read, he had a kinky three-way relationship going with his wife and secretary which just about everyone knew about (uh, in terms of the people who knew him, I mean). One may assume that, had he been born in a different era, he would have preached the virtues of bisexuality, too.

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The two women stayed together for about 40 years after Marson died, so maybe he knew what he was talking about after all. Besides, the people in Marson's world seem a lot nicer than the ones in Ditko's world.

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Oh, absolutely - I'm no fan of bondage, but I'd share the same world with Etta Candy, mental radios and moon nymphs with lasso-arrows any day. Living life in the Ditkoverse would just be depressing, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and the Creeper notwithstanding. Of course, it's a shame that I'd never get to meet the Question... Hey, maybe the two worlds could do a crossover!

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