Who Created Spider-Man?
Amazing Fantasy #15 and Amazing Spider-Man #1 – #38 are credited to Stan Lee as Editor & Writer, and to Steve Ditko as Plot, Pencil & Inker. Stan is by far the more popularly known of the two, since he has maintained a very high public profile. Ditko on the other hand is a very reclusive figure. In spite of that, Ditko has a significant following. The question is sometimes asked about Jack Kirby’s input. Kirby was a major figure in comics at the time, and was originally proposed to work on Spider-Man at the time he was being proposed for Amazing Fantasy #15. In the end Kirby created the cover for that issue, but Ditko was the artist for the actual story. Al Sjoerdsma did a little digging on this topic, and came up with the following. Al writes: I, too, have heard these claims about Jack Kirby being the true creator of Spider-Man. (And I am very sensitive to the lack of credit Jack has been given at Marvel.) I contacted several sources trying to get the full scoop but never got a satisf
