Robinson found the young student "a very hard worker who really focused on his drawing" and someone who "could work well with other writers as well as write his own stories and create his own characters", and he helped Ditko acquire a scholarship for the following year. Moving there in 1950, he enrolled in the art school under the G.I. 1954), Ditko's first published comic-book coverįollowing his discharge, Ditko learned that his idol, Batman artist Jerry Robinson, was teaching at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School (later the School of Visual Arts) in New York City. Army on October 26, 1945, and did military service in Allied-occupied Germany, where he drew comics for an Army newspaper. Upon graduating from Greater Johnstown High School in 1945, he enlisted in the U.S.
ĭitko in junior high school was part of a group of students who crafted wooden models of German airplanes to aid civilian World War II aircraft-spotters. Inspired by his father's love of newspaper comic strips, particularly Hal Foster's Prince Valiant, Ditko found his interest in comics accelerated by the introduction of the superhero Batman in 1939, and by Will Eisner's The Spirit, which appeared in a tabloid-sized comic-book insert in Sunday newspapers. The second-oldest child in a working-class family, he was preceded by sister Anna Marie, and followed by sister Elizabeth and brother Patrick. His father, Stephen, was an artistically talented master carpenter at a steel mill and his mother, Anna, a homemaker.
His parents were second-generation Americans: children of Rusyn-speaking, Byzantine Catholic immigrants from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Slovakia). Ditko largely declined to give interviews, saying he preferred to communicate through his work.ĭitko was inducted into the comics industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990, and into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994.ĭitko was born on Novemin Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
A, a hero reflecting the influence of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. Ditko also began contributing to small independent publishers, where he created Mr. In 1966, after being the exclusive artist on The Amazing Spider-Man and the "Doctor Strange" feature in Strange Tales, Ditko left Marvel for unclear reasons.ĭitko continued to work for Charlton and also DC Comics, including a revamp of the long-running character the Blue Beetle, and creating or co-creating the Question, the Creeper, Shade the Changing Man, and Hawk and Dove. He went on to contribute much significant work to Marvel. He also co-created the superhero Captain Atom in 1960.ĭuring the 1950s, Ditko also drew for Atlas Comics, a forerunner of Marvel Comics. During this time, he then began his long association with Charlton Comics, where he did work in the genres of science fiction, horror, and mystery.
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He began his professional career in 1953, working in the studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, beginning as an inker and coming under the influence of artist Mort Meskin. Ditko ( / ˈ d ɪ t k oʊ/ Novem– June 29, 2018) was an American comics artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.ĭitko studied under Batman artist Jerry Robinson at the Cartoonist and Illustrators School in New York City.
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