Who created Spider-Man and Dr. Strange? Several fans expect an open-and-shut case since it all comes down to who originally created the characters. However, that answer is a bit more complicated.

Ditko — playwright Lenny Schwartz’s biographical stage play about Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko — is heading to the late comic book artist’s hometown of Johnstown, Pennsylvania this October. The ...

Ditko, a comic book artist, is most famous for co-creating Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. Rand, in addition to writing novels ...

Steve Ditko did not like publicity, or awards, or being asked about his career. He was famously temperamental and sent many reporters—including me—packing. Ditko, the artist who gave the world ...

Steve Ditko, the comic book artist who is also the most influential popular artist specifically and deeply influenced by Ayn Rand's Objectivism, was found dead in his New York apartment late last ...

Christian Holub is a writer covering comics and other geeky pop culture. He's still mad about 'Firefly' getting canceled. Marvel has reached a legal settlement with another of their most important ...

Provenance is one of the most underappreciated aspects of collecting. Over the years here, we've taken a deep dive into comics once owned by the likes of Lamont Larson, Edgar Church and Bob Kane among ...

Ditko lived and died in obscurity, yet evidence of his work is everywhere. Millions, perhaps billions, of images of the superheroes he helped create have proliferated in countless forms all over the ...

NEW YORK — Steve Ditko, the Marvel Comics artist who gave the world the woven webs and soaring red-and-blue shape of Spider-Man and the other-worldly shimmer of Doctor Strange, has died, authorities ...

Iconoclast, loner and visionary, comic book artist Steve Ditko created Spider-Man with Stan Lee in 1962, then walked away from the superhero after illustrating 41 Peter Parker stories that would later ...

Steve Ditko was intensely private and fought to get credit he deserved on characters like Spider-Man, but by age 90 he was still looking forward on what other creations he could come up with. By Dan ...