Saturday, July 7, 2018

Comic artist Steve Ditko, the co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, has died

Steve Ditko, the comic book artist who co-created Marvel’s Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, was found dead in his New York City apartment on June 29th, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 90 years old.

In a statement, the president of Marvel Entertainet, Dan Buckely, said that Ditko “transformed the industry and the Marvel Universe, and his legacy will never be forgotten,” while the company’s Chief Creative Officer, Joe Quesada said that the artist “blessed us with gorgeous art, fantastical stories, heroic characters and a mystical persona worthy of some of his greatest creations.” Other writers and artists have paid their own tributes, from Neil Gaiman to Mike Mignola to Alex Ross have paid their own tributes online.

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