Happy Birthday to Steve Ditko!

Special thanks, as always, to Corey of New Warriors Continuity Conundrum for always having this stuff handy!

Steve co-created Speedball, plotting and drawing his first solo series.

While he gained a reputation for creepy and weird tales for Atlas Comics in the 1950s, he is mostly known for changing comics with his foundational Marvel Comics co-creations, the Amazing Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, in the 1960s. His clean yet off-balance artwork established the awkward world of Peter Parker, as well as the weird, mystical world of Stephen Strange. He also created the Question and relaunched Blue Beetle for Charlton Comics, and created or co-created the Creeper, Shade the Changing Man, and the duo Hawk and Dove for DC Comics, as well as his own Mr. A.

You can check out all of the information and list of appearances for Speedball on Corey’s website!

I have a Speedball profile (similar to the old Marvel Universe Handbook) here on the site. You can also read a synopsis of each issue of Speedball here on the site.