Stanley Martin Lieber dreamt of writing the great American novel while toiling away adding dialogue to comic books for his uncle's company Timley Comics as Stan Lee. While he never did write that "great American novel", he did however contribute to elevating comics from throw away kids stuff to a more mature and intelligent art form and brought about the cultural phenomenon known as the Marvel Age of Comics. To quote the Fantastic Four's first issue "and now the world will ne

"When I do a job, it's not my personality that I'm offering the readers but my artwork. It's not what I'm like that counts; it's what I did and how well it was done. I produce a product, a comic art story. Steve Ditko is the brand name". - Steve Ditko Genius. Enigmatic. Reclusive. Objectivist. Individual. Those words can be used to describe the one and only Steve Ditko, who passed away June 29th at 90 years old. He leaves behind an incredible body of work in and outside o