Famed comic book artist Steve Ditko dies.

  

  

Famed comic book artist Steve Ditko — who teamed up with Stan Lee to create Spider-Man and Doctor Strange — died in New York, police said Friday.

The 90-year-old Ditko was found dead inside his apartment at 150 W. 51st Street on June 29, cops said.

No one had heard from Ditko in about two days before his body was found, police said. The death is not considered suspicious.

Ditko and Lee introduced the comic book world to Peter Parker and his secret persona Spider-Man in Marvel’s “Amazing Fantasy” in 1962.





Then in 1963, Ditko’s Doctor Strange came to life in the pages of “Strange Tales.”

Ditko lived as a recluse for the last several decades of his life, with fans calling him the “J.D. Salinger of comics.”

Even as “Spider-Man” and “Doctor Strange” were made into big-budget movies, Ditko was nowhere to be found.

“We didn’t approach him. He’s like J.D. Salinger. He is private and has intentionally stayed out of the spotlight like J.D. Salinger,” “Doctor Strange” director Scott Derrickson told The Hollywood Reporter in 2016.

“I hope he goes to see the movie, wherever he is, because I think we paid homage to his work.” 

NY Post