I might've seen a VHS copy with that cover once. And the thing is we as the readers do know what he's about and still see him as a jerk. Sure, Batman is a jerk sometimes, but I can at least defend him for just poorly expressing himself. Ditko's Vic isn't so easy to do that with, since it's not a problem with the expression as it is with the values at the core. Of course, I've dealt with enough Randites in my time that it might give me a bad reaction to any of them.
And Vic's one of my favorites, too. Even if I may react adversely to Ditko's, he still lays some pretty groundwork here.