The technique takes its name from its widespread use at Marvel Comics beginning in the 1960s, primarily under writer-editor Stan Lee and artists Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko.

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 superhero Batman in 1940, and by Will Eisner's The Spirit, which appeared in a tabloid-sized comic-book insert in Sunday newspapers.

Following 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.

As a young comics fan, Smith particularly admired the work of Steve Ditko on The Amazing Spider-Man and Neal Adams on Batman.

* 1927 – Steve Ditko, American artist

" Steve " Ditko ( born November 2, 1927 ) is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.

In 1966, after being the exclusive artist on The Amazing Spider-Man and the " Doctor Strange " feature in Strange Tales, Ditko left Marvel for reasons never specified.

Beginning as an inker on backgrounds, Ditko was soon working with and learning from Mort Meskin, an artist whose work he had long admired.

* November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist

Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, she first appeared as May Parker in Amazing Fantasy # 15 ( August 1962 ).

He was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko.

Editor Jack C. Harris hired Steve Ditko as guest artist on several issues, a decision which garnered a mixed reaction from the title's readership.

The character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man # 15 ( August 1964 ), and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko.

The Sandman first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man # 4 ( Sept. 1963 ), created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko as an adversary of Spider-Man.

It was jointly produced in Canada ( for voice talent ) and the United States ( for animation ) and was the first animated adaptation of the Spider-Man comic book series, created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko.

Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, she first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man # 4 ( September 1963 ).

Originally known as Speedball, the character was created by artist Steve Ditko and writer Tom DeFalco, initially as a candidate for Marvel's separate New Universe imprint.

The title became a " split book " with the introduction of sorcerer Doctor Strange, by Lee and artist Steve Ditko.

With artist Steve Ditko, Levitz co-created the characters Stalker and the Prince Gavyn version of Starman.

1990s-era Spider-Man writer Howard Mackie said that his favorite story featuring the character was his first appearance and origin story in Amazing Fantasy # 15 ( August 1962 ), stating that writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko " gave us everything we needed, I wanted or could ask for in the least possible space.

In The Amazing Spider-Man # 148 ( Sep. 1975 ), the identity of the Jackal was revealed to be Professor Miles Warren, a supporting character of Spider-Man, who first appears in The Amazing Spider-Man # 31 ( Dec. 1965 ), and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko.

Created by co-plotters Stan Lee ( writer-editor ) and Steve Ditko ( artist ), Clea first appeared in the Doctor Strange feature in Strange Tales # 126 ( Nov. 1964 ).

Interestingly, Steve Ditko, artist of Captain Atom, did the artwork for the last issue.

Working from character designs by Brendan McCarthy, artist Chris Bachalo created a distinctive look for the comic which set it aside from the previous Ditko run and the characters ' DC Universe appearances.

Artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, for example, have alleged that the actual input from " writer " Lee was minimal, and that it was regularly / completely left to the artist to produce the plot and story, even as the writer was given most of the credit.

Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko, the team's first appearance was in The Amazing Spider-Man # 10 ( March 1964 ).

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.

Stephen J. Ditko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the son of first-generation Americans of Slovak descent: Stephen Ditko, an artistically talented master carpenter at a steel mill, and Anna, a homemaker.

Shortly afterward, Ditko found work at the studio of celebrated writer-artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, who had created Captain America and other characters and had instituted numerous industry innovations.

One classmate was future Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, with whom Stanton shared a Manhattan studio at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue from 1958 to 1966 or 1968 ( accounts differ ).

Hernandez has said that, at a young age, he was particularly enamored with superhero comics — particularly 1960s Marvel Comics artists such as Jack Kirby's work on Fantastic Four and Steve Ditko, and the cartoony art of DC Comics artists such as Carmine Infantino and Dick Sprang.

* Alan Moore interview at TwoMorrows that discusses ( among other things ) the Question, Steve Ditko, and Charlton Comics.

DC Comics vice president Irwin Donenfeld and editorial director Carmine Infantino hired Giordano as an editor in April 1968, at the suggestion of Steve Ditko, with Giordano also bringing over to DC some of the creators he had nurtured at Charlton.

Some comics fans objected to Byrne's perceived tampering with the classic Spider-Man stories produced by his creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and complained that the original 1960s stories did not require any updating at all.

DC Comics released a Tales of the New Gods trade paperback ( ISBN 978-1401216375 ) in January 2008, which collects all of the back-up stories listed above, a Mark Evanier / Steve Rude Mister Miracle one-shot comic from 1987, and an unpublished story by Mark Millar and Steve Ditko originally meant to be printed in the pages of Orion.

A tremendous roster of legendary creators have worked on Shadowman characters and storylines including current Marvel Comics Editor-in Chief Joe Quesada, former Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter, Sin City co-director Frank Miller, Garth Ennis, Rob Liefeld, Barry Windsor-Smith, Jamie Delano, Steve Ditko, David Lapham, Rags Morales, Fabian Nicieza, Jim Starlin, Bob Layton, Jimmy Palmiotti, Walt Simonson and Ashley Wood among many others.

Marvel's modern incarnation dates from 1961, the year that the company launched Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and others.

Though the concept of a shared universe was not new or unique to comics in 1961, writer / editor Stan Lee, together with several artists including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, created a series of titles where events in one book would have repercussions in another title and serialized stories would show characters ' growth and change.

Ditko then drew for Atlas Comics, the 1950s forerunner of Marvel Comics.

Ditko then worked for Charlton and DC Comics, making major contributions, including a revamp of long-running character Blue Beetle, and creating or co-creating the Question, the Creeper, and Hawk and Dove.

Ditko also began contributing to small independent publishers, where he created Mr. A, a hero reflecting the influence of Ayn Rand's Objectivism philosophy.

Since the 1960s, Ditko has declined most interviews, stating that it is his work he offers readers, and not his personality.

Ditko 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.

Ditko as a senior in high school, 1945.

Good with his hands, Ditko 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.

Ditko began professionally illustrating comic books in early 1953, drawing writer Bruce Hamilton's science-fiction story " Stretching Things " for the Key Publications imprint Stanmor Publications, which sold the story to Ajax / Farrell, where it finally found publication in Fantastic Fears # 5 ( cover-dated Feb. 1954 ).

" Meskin was fabulous ," Ditko once recalled.

For his own third published story, Ditko penciled and inked the six-page " A Hole in His Head " in Black Magic vol.