premise: Steve Ditko was a comic cartoonist.
hypothesis: Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko , and first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy # 15 ( Aug. 1962 ) in the Silver Age of Comic Books . Stephen J. Ditko ( [ ˈdɪtkoʊ ] 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 superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange . Ditko studied under Batman artist Jerry Robinson at the Cartoonist and Illustrators School in New York City . 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 .