• • • Comic Book Legends Revealed #405 
Brian Cronin, Comics Should Be Good! Atlas Shrugged  |The Fountainhead  |Image  | COMIC LEGEND: Marvel tried to do a comic book adaptation of Atlas Shrugged in the early 1990s with Steve Ditko doing the adaptation! STATUS: True. [....] Former Marvel editor Mort Todd discussed what could have been on the Ditkomania group at Yahoo! in response to someone noting that Ditko had turned down the chance to do a comic book adaptation of Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead: “In fact, it was Atlas Shrugged. When I was an Editor at Marvel [which was during the 1990s - BC], I got them to approve a 4 issue graphic novel series (though I wanted to do a 44 issue Akira-style adaptation). The Rand Estate was cool with it as long as Ditko would draw it and I was going to get John Severin to ink it. Steve declined and I think the world lost out on a masterpiece!”   Published: 2013-02-08