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* DivorcedInstallment: The comic was based on a storyline involving ComicBook/WonderMan and the Grim Reaper that J. M. [=DeMatteis=] submitted to Marvel and was rejected. He then reworked it into a ComicBook/{{Batman}} vs. ComicBook/TheJoker project that got nixed becase ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' was already in production. Next [=DeMatteis=] developed the "return from the grave" story into one about Batman and Hugo Strange, but that also was rejected by DC. Finally he reworked and expanded the story for Marvel into the epic we know today.
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* DivorcedInstallment: The comic was based on a storyline involving ComicBook/WonderMan and the Grim Reaper that J. M. [=DeMatteis=] submitted to Marvel and was rejected. He then reworked it into a ComicBook/{{Batman}} vs. ComicBook/TheJoker project that got nixed becase because ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' was already in production. Next [=DeMatteis=] developed the "return from the grave" story into one about Batman and Hugo Strange, but that also was rejected by DC. Finally he reworked and expanded the story for Marvel into the epic we know today.
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--> "Please understand that I had no interest whatsoever in Kraven. In fact, I always thought he was one of the most generic, uninteresting villains in the Spider-Man gallery...But buried in this Marvel Universe entry was one intriguing fact: Kraven -- was Russian. Why should that excite me so? One word: Dostoyevsky. When I read ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' and ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov'' in high school, they seeped in through my brain, wormed their way down into my nervous system...and ripped me to shreds. No other novelist has ever explored the staggering duality of existence, illuminated the mystical heights and the despicable depths of the human heart, with the brilliance of Dostoyevsky. The Russian soul, as exposed in his novels, was really the Universal Soul. It was my soul.
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--> "Please understand that I had no interest whatsoever in Kraven. In fact, I always thought he was one of the most generic, uninteresting villains in the Spider-Man gallery... But buried in this Marvel Universe entry was one intriguing fact: Kraven -- was Russian. Why should that excite me so? One word: Dostoyevsky. When I read ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' and ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov'' in high school, they seeped in through my brain, wormed their way down into my nervous system... and ripped me to shreds. No other novelist has ever explored the staggering duality of existence, illuminated the mystical heights and the despicable depths of the human heart, with the brilliance of Dostoyevsky. The Russian soul, as exposed in his novels, was really the Universal Soul. It was my soul.
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* DivorcedInstallment: The comic was based on a storyline involving ComicBook/WonderMan and the Grim Reaper that J. M. [=DeMatteis=] submitted to Marvel and was rejected. He then reworked it into a ComicBook/{{Batman}} vs. SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker project that got nixed becase ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' was already in production. Next [=DeMatteis=] developed the "return from the grave" story into one about Batman and Hugo Strange, but that also was rejected by DC. Finally he reworked and expanded the story for Marvel into the epic we know today.
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* DivorcedInstallment: The comic was based on a storyline involving ComicBook/WonderMan and the Grim Reaper that J. M. [=DeMatteis=] submitted to Marvel and was rejected. He then reworked it into a ComicBook/{{Batman}} vs. SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker ComicBook/TheJoker project that got nixed becase ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' was already in production. Next [=DeMatteis=] developed the "return from the grave" story into one about Batman and Hugo Strange, but that also was rejected by DC. Finally he reworked and expanded the story for Marvel into the epic we know today.
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* ThrowItIn: As J. M. [=DeMatteis=] pointed out, the original story (whose outline he initially planed for a number of characters at DC and other places) was planned without Mary Jane leave alone a married Spider-Man. However once the editorial department agreed to it and asked writers to work it into the stories, [=DeMatteis=] approved the addition and he pointed out that it gave the story the emotional center he was searching for.
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* ThrowItIn: As J. M. [=DeMatteis=] pointed out, the original story (whose outline he initially planed planned for a number of characters at DC and other places) was planned without Mary Jane leave Jane, leaving alone a married Spider-Man. However once the editorial department agreed to it and asked writers to work it into the stories, [=DeMatteis=] approved the addition and he pointed out that it gave the story the emotional center he was searching for.
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--> "Please understand that I had no interest whatsoever in Kraven. In fact, I always thought he was one of the most generic, uninteresting villains in the Spider-Man gallery...But buried in this Marvel Universe entry was one intriguing fact: Kraven -- was Russian. Why should that excite me so? One word: Dostoyevsky. When I read ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' and ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramozov'' in high school, they seeped in through my brain, wormed their way down into my nervous system...and ripped me to shreds. No other novelist has ever explored the staggering duality of existence, illuminated the mystical heights and the despicable depths of the human heart, with the brilliance of Dostoyevsky. The Russian soul, as exposed in his novels, was really the Universal Soul. It was my soul.
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--> "Please understand that I had no interest whatsoever in Kraven. In fact, I always thought he was one of the most generic, uninteresting villains in the Spider-Man gallery...But buried in this Marvel Universe entry was one intriguing fact: Kraven -- was Russian. Why should that excite me so? One word: Dostoyevsky. When I read ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' and ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramozov'' ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov'' in high school, they seeped in through my brain, wormed their way down into my nervous system...and ripped me to shreds. No other novelist has ever explored the staggering duality of existence, illuminated the mystical heights and the despicable depths of the human heart, with the brilliance of Dostoyevsky. The Russian soul, as exposed in his novels, was really the Universal Soul. It was my soul.
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* InspirationForTheWork: According to WordOfGod, the reason he chose Kraven the Hunter as the villain was because he was Russian which he read in a Marvel handbook, and as such allowed him to find a way to tap into the ideas of Creator/FyodorDostoevsky [[http://www.jmdematteis.com/2010/09/story-behind-huntagain.html in a superhero comic]]:
--> "Please understand that I had no interest whatsoever in Kraven. In fact, I always thought he was one of the most generic, uninteresting villains in the Spider-Man gallery...But buried in this Marvel Universe entry was one intriguing fact: Kraven -- was Russian. Why should that excite me so? One word: Dostoyevsky. When I read ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' and ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramozov'' in high school, they seeped in through my brain, wormed their way down into my nervous system...and ripped me to shreds. No other novelist has ever explored the staggering duality of existence, illuminated the mystical heights and the despicable depths of the human heart, with the brilliance of Dostoyevsky. The Russian soul, as exposed in his novels, was really the Universal Soul. It was my soul.
--> "Please understand that I had no interest whatsoever in Kraven. In fact, I always thought he was one of the most generic, uninteresting villains in the Spider-Man gallery...But buried in this Marvel Universe entry was one intriguing fact: Kraven -- was Russian. Why should that excite me so? One word: Dostoyevsky. When I read ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' and ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramozov'' in high school, they seeped in through my brain, wormed their way down into my nervous system...and ripped me to shreds. No other novelist has ever explored the staggering duality of existence, illuminated the mystical heights and the despicable depths of the human heart, with the brilliance of Dostoyevsky. The Russian soul, as exposed in his novels, was really the Universal Soul. It was my soul.
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* DivorcedInstallment: The comic was based on a storyline involving ComicBook/WonderMan and the Grim Reaper that J. M. [=DeMatteis=] submitted to Marvel and was rejected. He then reworked it into a ComicBook/{{Batman}} vs. SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker project that got nixed becase ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' was already in production. Next [=DeMatteis=] developed the "return from the grave" story into one about Batman and Hugo Strange, but that also was rejected by DC. Finally he reworked and expanded the story for Marvel into the epic we know today.
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* ThrowItIn: As J. M. [=DeMatteis=] pointed out, the original story (whose outline he initially planed for a number of characters at DC and other places) was planned without Mary Jane leave alone a married Spider-Man. However once the editorial department agreed to it and asked writers to work it into the stories, [=DeMatteis=] approved the addition and he pointed out that it gave the story the emotional center he was searching for.
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