If you haven’t joined the Steve Ditko letter’s Facebook page I highly recommend it. A recent discussion came about from Steve Garland about Aunt May. Garland says,
During one of my visits to Ditko’s studio he told me that Stan Lee originally wanted the Aunt May character to look like (voluptuous ’60s actress) Gina Lollobrigida! Ditko wanted the Aunt May we know, for all the drama/storyline reasons you guys spoke of. I remember he said something about the elderly aunt being a sort of impediment for Peter’s relations to other kids; that Peter would feel awkward inviting kids to his house. Aunt May was a factor that separated him from his contemporaries. As far as I know, that was never part of a storyline, but like a good actor Ditko had imagined his character’s lives and personalities very vividly and in more detail than was seen by the audience!
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I agree, but not a positive direction IMO…
Stan should be happy to know that in the 2nd or 3rd Spider-Man movie reboot from the current movies, “Aunt May” will be only a few years older than Peter, not related to him (“Aunt May” will just be a nickname) but a friend of the family who got custody of him, and beautiful, so there will be lots of sexual tension.
Come on, look at the progression of Aunt May actresses since the Raimi films. You know Marvel is going in this direction.