Fans Remember ‘Spider-Man, ‘Doctor Strange’ Creator Steve Ditko: ‘Often Copied. Never Equalled.’
The comics world mourned one of the last living legends of the silver age with the news that Steve Ditko, the writer-artist who co-created “Spider-Man” and “Doctor Strange,” “The Question,” and many others has died at age 90. Ditko died in June, though the news was only made public Friday.
Through a career that spanned more than six decades, Ditko’s trippy art and uncompromising (and often weird) ideas influenced generations of comics writers and artists and made publishers and movie studios rich beyond belief. And on Friday his admirers and former colleagues came out in force on social media to say goodbye.