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Since I was already working on a profile of him, I felt duty bound to try my luck. Almost unanimously, they told me to swing by his office in person that they’d done it and heard of others doing it without calamity.
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In the days that followed, I talked to people who have known and spoken to Ditko and asked them how to proceed. “Look, I don’t have time for this,” he replied. I did as he said, and after seven days without a response, I called again, greeting him and asking if he’d received my letter. I said I was a journalist and that I’d like to meet him, even if our visit would be off the record. I tried calling first, and actually got him on the line. That’s why a few weeks ago, with Doctor Strange set to arrive in theaters and Ditko’s info in hand, I decided to seek out the creator, hoping that the increased profile of one of his greatest creations would make him more amenable to discussing his career. He remains one of pop culture’s most enigmatic figures. His influence is staggering, but his personal story is almost totally hidden. Ditko has long been principled in a way few popular artists are, and he changed the comics medium twice: first with his elegant, kinetic, at times psychedelic artwork then by being the first high-profile creator to inject serious philosophical arguments into superhero comics. What followed has been an idiosyncratic crusade that has consumed Ditko’s capacious imagination: the creation of spite-filled, didactic, and often baffling comics and essays that evangelize the philosophy of Ayn Rand. It’s putting that contact information to good use that’s difficult.ĭitko hasn’t done an interview with a journalist since 1968, two years after he shocked comics fandom by leaving Marvel in a move for which he offered no explanation - even to his boss, Stan Lee, with whom he created Doctor Strange and Spider-Man, among other classic characters. But if you ask within the comics community, you can readily find the location and phone number of his Manhattan studio.
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And though his name appears prominently as “co-creator” in the credits of Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange - which has already grossed more than $490 million worldwide - he has never been on a red carpet, or appeared on TV or radio. You won’t see him in public: Despite being one of the most important figures in comics history, the most recent published photograph of the 89-year-old was taken about 50 years ago.
For a recluse, Steve Ditko is surprisingly easy to locate.
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