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| birth_place = Johnstown, Pennsylvania | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = American | pencil = y | write = y | ink = y | alias = | notable works = ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' ''Creeper'' ''Doctor Strange'' ''Hawk and Dove'' ''Mr. A'' ''Question'' Captain Atom Blue Beetle | awards = | subcat = American }} Stephen J. "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 superhero Spider-Man, and as creator of the supernatural hero Doctor Strange. Ditko studied under Batman artist Jerry Robinson at the Cartoonist and Illustrators School in New York City. 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. 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. He also co-created the superhero Captain Atom in 1960. During the 1950s, Ditko also drew for Atlas Comics, a forerunner of Marvel Comics. He went on to contribute much significant work to Marvel, including co-creating Spider-Man, who would become the company's flagship character. Additionally, he co-created the supernatural hero Doctor Strange and made important contributions to the Hulk and Iron Man. 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. Ditko continued to work for Charlton and also DC Comics, making major contributions, including a revamp of the long-running character Blue Beetle, and creating or co-creating the Question, the Creeper, Shade, the Changing Man, 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 philosophy of Objectivism. 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. ==Early life== Stephen J. Ditko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on November 2, 1927,〔''Comics Buyer's Guide'' #1636 (December 2007) p. 135〕 the son of first-generation Americans of Slovak〔Bell, ''Strange and Stranger'', Endnotes, p.1, citing 1920 and 1930 U.S. Census data. The family lists itself as Czechoslovakian in the latter census, following the dissolution of Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918. The surname "Ditko" itself is of Slavic origin.〕 descent: Stephen Ditko, an artistically talented master carpenter at a steel mill, and Anna, a homemaker. The second-eldest child in a working-class family, he was preceded by sister Anna Marie〔 and followed, according to the 1940 census, by sister Elizabeth and brother Patrick.〔 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.〔Bell, ''Strange and Stranger'', p. 15〕 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.〔 Upon graduating from Johnstown High School in 1945,〔 he enlisted in the U.S. Army on October 26, 1945,〔 and did military service in postwar Germany, where he drew comics for an Army newspaper.〔 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. Moving there in 1950, he enrolled in the art school under the G.I. Bill.〔Bell, ''Strange and Stranger'', p. 16〕 Robinson found the young student "a very hard worker who really focused on his drawing"〔Jerry Robinson interview, ''Alter Ego'' #38 (Aug. 2004), p. 9〕 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.〔Bell, ''Strange and Stranger'', p. 19〕 "He was in my class for two years, four or five days a week, five hours a night. It was very intense."〔Robinson, Jerry, "Student and Teacher", in Yoe, Craig, ed. ''The Art of Ditko'' (IDW Publishing, January 2010), ISBN 978-1-60010-542-5, p. 54〕 Robinson, who invited artists and editors to speak with his class, once brought in Stan Lee, then editor of Marvel Comics' 1950s precursor, Atlas Comics, and, "I think that was when Stan first saw Steve's work."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Ditko」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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