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The New School
The New School is a private research university in Lower Manhattan, New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York educators, and for most of its history, between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University. The university and each of its colleges were renamed in 2005, in 1934, the University in Exile was chartered by New York State and its name was changed to the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. In 2005, it adopted what had initially been the name of the whole institution, Parsons School of Design is the New Schools art school. Founders included economist and literary scholar Alvin Johnson, historian Charles A. Beard, economists Thorstein Veblen and James Harvey Robinson, several founders were former professors at Columbia University. In October 1917, after Columbia University imposed a loyalty oath to the United States upon the faculty and student body. Charles A. Beard, Professor of Political Science, resigned his professorship at Columbia in protest and his colleague James Harvey Robinson resigned in 1919 to join the faculty at the New School.
The New School plan was to offer the rigorousness of postgraduate education without degree matriculation or degree prerequisites and it was theoretically open to anyone, as the adult division today called Schools of Public Engagement remains. The first classes at the New School took the form of lectures followed by discussions, for groups, or as smaller conferences. Davenport, Elsie Clews Parsons, and Roscoe Pound, John Cage pioneered the subject of Experimental Composition at the school. The New School uses To the Living Spirit as its motto, in 1937, Thomas Mann remarked that a plaque bearing the inscription be the Living Spirit had been torn down by the Nazis from a building at the University of Heidelberg. He suggested that the University in Exile adopt that inscription as its motto, to indicate that the spirit, mortally threatened in Europe. The University in Exile was initially founded by the director of the New School, Alvin Johnson, through the financial contributions of Hiram Halle.
The University in Exile and its subsequent incarnations have been the heart of the New School. In 1934, the University in Exile was chartered by New York State, in 2005 the Graduate Faculty was again renamed, this time taking the original name of the university, The New School for Social Research. The New School played a role with the founding of the École Libre des Hautes Études after the Nazi invasion of France. The École Libre gradually evolved into one of the institutions of research in Paris. Between 1940 and 1949, the New School was host to the Dramatic Workshop, important acting teachers during this period were Stella Adler and Elia Kazan
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626.
The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation.
Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Society of Illustrators
The Society of Illustrators is a professional society based in New York City. It was founded in 1901 to promote the art of illustration and, the Society of Illustrators was founded on February 1,1901, by a group of nine artists and one advising businessman. The nine artists, who with Fleming founded the Society were Otto Henry Bacher, Frank Vincent DuMond, Henry Hutt, Albert Wenzell, Albert Sterner, Benjamin West Clinedinst, Louis Loeb, and Reginald Birch. The mission statement was to promote generally the art of illustration, flaggs US Army iconic recruiting poster of Uncle Sam, as well as advertising of the massive War Bond effort. Photo journalism was impractical during these years and eight Society members, after the war, the Society operated the School for Disabled Soldiers. In 1920, the Society was incorporated, and in 1922 women were allowed to become full members, prior to this women were granted Associate Memberships since 1903. The early history of the Society was documented in 1927 and 1939 by Norman Price and his hand written notes are held in the Society of Illustrators archives.
During the 1920s and 1930s the Society presented the Illustrators Shows, featuring artists and their models as actors, professional talent such as the Cotton Club band and Jimmy Durante performed. In 1939, those funds allowed the Society to acquire its present headquarters, Norman Rockwells Dover Coach became the backdrop for the bar on the fourth floor, donated by Rockwell in honor of the Societys new building. This painting currently hangs in the Members Dining Room, in 1954, the U. S. Air Force began sending members around the world to document its activities. Thousands of paintings have been contributed over the years, the year 1959 saw the Society hold its first Annual Exhibition, juried by Bob Peak, Bradbury Thompson, Stevan Dohanos and others. It opened with 350 original works of art and led to the publication of the first Illustrators Annual,2001 was the Societys centennial year, a 12-month celebration begun with the U. S. Postal issue, Great American Illustrators. That year was punctuated with the 9/11 Memorial Exhibition, Prevailing Human Spirit, the Society of illustrators continues to maintain an annual of illustration, student scholarship competitions and various awards honoring excellence in the field of illustration.
The Society began and maintains outreach programs with The New York City Parks Department, today the permanent collection includes nearly 2500 works by such artists as Norman Rockwell, Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, James Montgomery Flagg, Bob Peak and Bernie Fuchs, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art transferred its assets in August 2012 to the Society, which has continued the MoCCA Fest. The Society of Illustrators inaugurated the Hall of Fame program in 1958, the first recipient was Norman Rockwell. Like other recognized artists, he was elected by former Society presidents for his contributions to the field of illustration, every year since 1958, one or more illustrators have been added to the Hall of Fame. In 2001, two forms of recognition were added, Dean Cornwell Recognition Award and the Arthur William Brown Achievement Award
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Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is a not-for-profit arts organization and former museum in New York, devoted to comic books, comic strips and other forms of cartoon art. MoCCA sponsored events ranging from book openings to educational programs in New York City schools, MoCCA was perhaps best known for its annual small-press comic convention, known as MoCCA Fest, first held in 2002. MoCCA was founded by Lawrence Klein in October 2001 and it was located at 594 Broadway in New York City. On July 9,2012, MoCCA announced that it would be closing its location, effective immediately. On August 2,2012, MoCCA announced plans to transfer their assets to the Society of Illustrators and it was confirmed that MoCCA Fest would continue to exist. The MoCCA Festival is a fundraiser for the museum. From its inception in 2002 until 2008 it was held at the Puck Building, from 2009 to 2014, it took place at the 69th Regiment Armory. In 2015, the event was split between two locations, with the exhibitors in Center548, and the programming at the High Line Hotel.
Plans to convert Center548 to a residential property forced the Society to find new venues, in 2016 Metropolitan West will host the exhibitors, from 2002 to 2012, the museum presented an award at MoCCA Fest to an artist whose outstanding work elevated the comic art form. Originally known as the MoCCA Art Festival Award, it was renamed the Klein Award in 2009 in honor of MoCCA Founder Lawrence Klein, MoCCA Fest hosted the comics industrys 2004 and 2005 Harvey Awards. In 2003, MoCCA opened its art gallery with the debut exhibit Gag Art and their The Art of Archie Comics exhibit was promoted with a story in Archie Digest Magazine #260, March 2010. The seven-page story, MoCCA Madness, was written by Arie Kaplan and it featured appearances by MoCCA President Ellen Abramowitz and then-Director Karl Erickson, and was subsequently reprinted in Archie, A Celebration of Americas Favorite Teenagers by Craig Yoe. Cartoon Art Museum Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum The Cartoon Museum National Cartoon Museum ToonSeum Official website
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Atlas/Seaboard Comics
Seaboard was located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. Marvel Comics founder and Magazine Management publisher Martin Goodman left Marvel in 1972 and he created Seaboard Periodicals, which opened its office on June 24,1974 to compete in a field dominated by Marvel and DC Comics. Rovin said in 1987 he became involved after answering an ad in The New York Times, I was working for Jim Warren, running his mail-order division, Captain Company, and just starting to edit Creepy Id edited comics for DC and Skywald. Several weeks after answering the ad, I receive a call from Martin Goodman, sharing editorial duties on the comics was writer artist Larry Lieber, whom Martin had long wanted to transplant from under the shadow of Larrys brother. Larry ended up handling about a quarter of Atlas output—primarily the police, Western war, Lieber became editor of the color comics following Rovins departure. Steve Mitchell was the production manager, and John Chilly the black-and-white magazines art director.
The field was too shaky for a new publisher, as Lieber recalled in a 1999 interview, When I went there, Martin put out two kinds of books. He was putting out comics, and he was going to put out black-and-white comics like Warren. Now, I knew nothing about black-and-white comics, right and my only experience was in the color comics. Jeff Rovin came from Warren, and he knew nothing about color comics, Martin unfortunately put Jeff in charge of all the color comics and put me in charge of the black-and-white books. It was a thing, and basically what happened was that Jeffs books didnt turn out so well. Martin had to pay high freelance rates, because nobody would work for a new. It didnt work out too well, and Jeff finally left angrily or something, at this point, business was bad, and I tried to do what I could. One of the things I had to do was to cut rates and tell people they were going to make less money, comic-book collectors and others began using the term Atlas/Seaboard to differentiate these 1970s Atlas Comics from the 1950s Atlas Comics, publisher Goodmans predecessor of Marvel Comics.
Atlas/Seaboard offered some of the highest rates in the industry, plus return of artwork to artists, a total of 23 comics titles and five comics magazines were published before the company folded in late 1975. No title lasted more than four issues, of the characters, Chaykins Scorpion would inspire his Dominic Fortune at Marvel, and Rich Bucklers Demon Hunter would inspire his Devil-Slayer at Marvel. Some reports at the time suggested Goodman was angered that Cadence and Atlas writer Gary Friedrich recalled, I never really felt that did it for that reason. I think he did it to make money and that he thought with Larry in charge, now, he probably wouldnt have minded if it would have taken a bite out of Marvels profits, but I dont think it was done out of revenge
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Chris Claremont
Christopher S. Claremont scripted many classic stories, including The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past, on which he collaborated with John Byrne. He developed the character of Wolverine into a fan favorite, X-Men #1, the 1991 spinoff series premiere that Claremont co-wrote with Jim Lee, remains the best-selling comic book of all time, according to Guinness World Records. In 2015, Claremont and his X-Men collaborator John Byrne were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, Claremont was born November 25,1950 in London, the son of an internist father and a pilot/caterer mother. His family moved to the United States when he was three, and he was raised primarily on Long Island and he read works by science fiction writers such as Robert Heinlein, as well as writers of other genres such as Rudyard Kipling and C. S. Forester. Claremont is Jewish on his mothers side, and lived in a kibbutz in Israel during his youth. Instead, when he began at Bard College, he did so as a political theorist, studying acting and political theory and his first professional sale was a prose story.
Thomas assigned Claremont his first professional scripting assignment, on Daredevil, in 1974, as an entry into regular comics writing, Claremont was given the fledgling title Iron Fist, which teamed him with John Byrne, their second collaboration after Marvel Premiere. Though his acting career did not yield great success, he functioned well at Marvel, one of the first new characters created by Claremont was Madrox the Multiple Man in Giant-Size Fantastic Four #4. Claremont approached the job as a actor, developing the characters by examining their motives, desires. This approach drew immediate positive reaction, according to former Marvel editor-in-chief Bob Harras, He lived it and breathed it. He would write whole paragraphs about what people were wearing and he really got into these peoples thoughts, dreams. Claremont introduced new supporting characters to the X-Men series including Moira MacTaggert in issue #96, Marvel Girl, one of Marvels first female heroes, underwent a huge transformation into the omnipotent Phoenix.
Issue #107 saw the introduction of the Starjammers as well as the departure of artist Dave Cockrum, Claremont began his collaboration with artist John Byrne in the following issue. During his 17 years as X-Men writer, Claremont wrote or co-wrote many classic X-Men stories, such as The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past. Comics writers and historians Roy Thomas and Peter Sanderson observed that The Dark Phoenix Saga is to Claremont and Byrne what the Galactus Trilogy is to Stan Lee and it is a landmark in Marvel history, showcasing its creators work at the height of their abilities. In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Claremont and Byrnes run on The X-Men second on its list of the Top 10 1970s Marvels and artist Frank Miller crafted a Wolverine limited series in 1982. With artist Walt Simonson, Claremont produced The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans in 1982, the New Mutants were introduced by Claremont and Bob McLeod in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 and received their own ongoing series soon after.
The second X-Men film was based on his X-Men graphic novel God Loves
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Jerry Robinson
Sherrill David Robinson, known as Jerry Robinson, was an American comic book artist known for his work on DC Comics Batman line of comics during the 1940s. He is best known as the co-creator of Robin and the Joker and he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2004. Jerry Robinson was born in Trenton, New Jersey, the son of Mae and he was of Russian Jewish descent. He attended Columbia University, but did not graduate, Robinson was a 17-year-old journalism student at Columbia University in 1939 when he was discovered by Batman creator Bob Kane, who hired him to work on that fledgling comic as an inker and letterer. Kane, with writer Bill Finger, had shortly before created the character Batman for National Comics, Robinson rented a room from a family in The Bronx near Kanes familys Grand Concourse apartment, where Kane used his bedroom as an art studio. He started as a letterer and an inker, shortly graduating to inking secondary figures. Within a year, he became Batmans primary inker, with George Roussos inking backgrounds, Batman quickly became a hit character, and Kane rented space for Robinson and Roussos in Times Squares Times Tower.
In addition to Batman and Roussos did inks and backgrounds on Target, Roussos recounted of his collaboration with Robinson, It was hard to make the deadlines, because Jerry was a heavy sleeper. I used to have to go to the Bronx to get him to come to work, id go and wake him up 2 oclock in the afternoon so we could work all night. We were committed to do about 13 pages a week, Jerry was always behind - he was always whiting out things and re-inking them. Bobs stuff was so sketchy, Jerry had to do a lot of work, approximately a year and a half after Robinson and Finger were hired by Kane, National Comics lured them away, making them company staffers. By early 1940, Kane and Finger discussed adding a sidekick, Robinson suggested the name Robin after Robin Hood books he had read during boyhood, saying that he was inspired by one books N. C. The new character, orphaned circus performer Dick Grayson, came to live with Bruce Wayne as his ward in Detective Comics #38. Robin would inspire many similar sidekicks throughout the remainder of the Golden Age of Comic Books, Batmans nemesis, the Joker, was introduced around the same time, in Batman #1.
Credit for that characters creation, however, is disputed, Robinson has said he created the character. In 1943, when Kane left the Batman comic books to focus on penciling the daily Batman newspaper comic strip, only Kanes name appeared on the strip. From 1944 to 1946, Robinson and his friend Meskin formed a studio which produced material for the short-lived Spark Publications, Robinson worked on numerous other characters for several publishers, at one point doing freelance illustrations for a textbook publisher. After leaving superhero comics, he became a newspaper cartoonist and created True Classroom Flubs and Fluffs, Robinson did a political satire cartoon panel feature, Still Life which began national syndication on June 3,1963
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Comics Buyer's Guide
Comics Buyers Guide, established in 1971, was the longest-running English-language periodical reporting on the American comic book industry. It awarded its annual Comics Buyers Guide Fan Awards from 1982–2008, the publication ceased with the March 2013 issue. The magazine was headquartered in Iola, Wisconsin, CBG was founded in February 1971 by Alan Light under the title The Buyers Guide to Comics Fandom as a monthly newspaper in a tabloid format. TBG began primarily as an advertising venue – known in comics fandom as an adzine, frantz provides background on Lights interaction with the WE Seal of approval program, with which he cooperated in order to help combat mail fraud. Frantz in addition describes the infamous long-running feud between Light and Comics Journal founder Gary Groth, tBGs frequency was changed to twice-monthly with issue #18. Besides occasional letter columns, beginning with issue #19, prominent fans Don and Maggie Thompson began a monthly column, a news column, What Now. by Murray Bishoff, was added with #26.
These provided the editorial content required by the United States Postal Service to qualify for second class mail, TBG went weekly with issue #86. Cat Yronwode succeeded Bishoff as news reporter with issue #329, renaming the column “Fit to Print, in 1983 The Buyers Guide was purchased by Krause Publications. Columnists Don and Maggie Thompson were hired as editors, Krause changed the name with their first issue #482 to Comics Buyers Guide. At that time Krause instituted the controversial CBG Customer Service Award, writer Peter Davids column, But I Digress. The magazine added Mark Evaniers column P. O. V. in late 1994, in 1992, the magazine spun off its distributor and retailer news into a separate periodical, Comics & Games Retailer. Co-editor Don Thompson died in May 23,1994, in 1998, Krause brought on John Jackson Miller as managing editor and Brent Frankenhoff as projects editor, with Maggie Thompson remaining as editor. Frankenhoff was promoted to CBG Editor in 2006, with Maggie Thompson assuming the title of Senior Editor, in July 2002, Krause was acquired by F+W Publications.
With issue #1595, CBG changed its format from a tabloid to a monthly perfect bound magazine. In July 2005, the magazine began archiving past features at its CBGXtra. com service, in late 2009, CBGs page count was reduced, the perfect binding ended, and some of the features changed, including the removal of the price guide listings. On January 9,2013, Krause Publications announced the cancellation of Comics Buyer’s Guide effective with issue #1699, the website CBGXtra and its Facebook page will continued as archived resources. Alter Ego #122 is an issue devoted to Comics Buyers Guide with features regarding what would have made the 1700th CBG issue if the magazine had continued. A complete collection of CBG and its predecessor is held by the Michigan State University Comic Art Collection, CBG hosted many columns over the years in addition to Don and Maggie Thompsons Beautiful Balloons, Murray Bishoffs What Now. and Cat Yronwodes Fit to Print
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Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts is the seminar-style, liberal arts college of The New School. It is located on-campus in New York Citys Greenwich Village on West 11th Street off 6th Avenue, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts was founded as the Freshman Year Program at The New School in 1972 as a pre-college program for high school graduates. Three years later, in 1975, the Freshman Year Program was expanded to an undergraduate program. In 1985, following a donation by well-known philanthropist and educational visionary Eugene Lang and his wife Theresa. The college currently has an enrollment of over 1,345 students, in 2015 The New School rebranded by renaming the schools to better clarify the relationship between the university and its schools. Eugene Lang College is now The New Schools Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, unlike most US universities, The New School has a student-directed curriculum, which does not require its undergraduates to take extensive general education courses.
Consequently, students at Lang are encouraged to explore before focusing on a major and these intensive writing classes - part composition class and part linguistics - have titles such as Going Underground, Whats Love Got to Do With It. Comedy as Critique, and Cruel Shoes, A Trek Through the Absurd, students are encouraged to tailor the program to their own interests and academic goals. All of its courses are seminars, students at Lang may cross-register for courses sponsored by other divisions of The New School, especially Parsons School of Design and the School of Dramss new BFA program. Students are allowed to double-major and apply for the honors program. Several of The New Schools major publications are produced by Lang students and it is published bi-weekly and it aims to serve both Lang and the wider New School community. The Free Press operates a blog and makes copies of the newspaper available on the Lang website. In some college ranking programs, The New Schools eight divisions are ranked separately, since their attributes, the Princeton Review ranks Eugene Lang among Americas 371 Best Colleges and the Best Northeastern Colleges.
Miriam Weinstein cites the Eugene Lang division in her book, Making a Difference Colleges and this can most likely be attributed to its seminar-style academics
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Howard the Duck
Howard the Duck is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik, Howards adventures are generally social satires, while a few are parodies of genre fiction with a metafictional awareness of the medium. This is diametrically opposed to screenwriter Gloria Katz, who, in adapting the comic to the screen and its not supposed to be an existential experience. Howard the Duck was portrayed by Ed Gale and voiced by Chip Zien in the 1986 Howard the Duck film adaptation, Howard the Duck was created by writer Steve Gerber and penciler Val Mayerik in Adventure into Fear #19 as a secondary character in that comics Man-Thing feature. Gerber wrote 27 issues of the series, illustrated by a variety of artists, for Gerber, Howard was a flesh and blood duck and that, if Wile E. Gene Colan became the regular penciller with issue #4. Gerber said to Colan, There really was almost a telepathic connection there, I would see something in my mind, and that is what you would draw.
Ive never had experience with another artist before or since. Sporting the slogan Get Down, the All-Night Party was a fictional political party that appeared in Gerbers Howard the Duck series during the U. S. Presidential campaign of 1976, and led to Howard the Duck receiving thousands of votes in the actual election. Gerber addressed questions about the campaign in the column of the comic book and, as Mad Genius Associates. Gerber gained a degree of autonomy when he became Howard the Ducks editor in addition to his writing duties. With issue #16, unable to meet the deadline for his script, Gerber substituted an entire issue of text pieces. In 1978, the writer and publisher clashed over issues of creative control, on November 5,1982, Judge David Kenyon approved the motion and dismissed the case. The series continued for four issues with stories by Marv Wolfman, Mary Skrenes, Mark Evanier. Gerber returned briefly to write, though not plot, #29 as part of a contract fulfillment, issue #31 announced on its letters page that it would be the final issue of Howard the Duck as a color comic.
Articles in these issues claimed that Howard was Mayeriks idea, though this is contrary to statements by both Gerber and Mayerik, in issue #6, Mantlo introduced the concept of Duckworld, which Gerber loathed. As Gerber told Mediascene, Howards world, which would never be depicted visually, was inhabited by other anthropomorphized animals like himself, like the cartoon worlds of Disney and Warner Brothers. Unlike the Disney and Warners worlds, Howards reality was beset with the plethora of social ills
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Spider-Man
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, when Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic books were usually relegated to the role of sidekick to the protagonist. Marvel has featured Spider-Man in several book series, the first. In the 2010s, he joins the Avengers, Marvels flagship superhero team, Spider-Mans nemesis Doctor Octopus took on the identity for a story arc spanning 2012–2014, following a body swap plot in which Peter appears to die. Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes, the character was first portrayed in live action by Nicholas Hammond in the 1977 television movie Spider-Man. Reeve Carney starred as Spider-Man in the 2010 Broadway musical Spider-Man, in 1962, with the success of the Fantastic Four, Marvel Comics editor and head writer Stan Lee was casting about for a new superhero idea.
He said the idea for Spider-Man arose from a surge in demand for comic books. At that time Lee had to get only the consent of Marvel publisher Martin Goodman for the characters approval, in a 1986 interview, Lee described in detail his arguments to overcome Goodmans objections. In particular, Lee stated that the fact that it had already decided that Amazing Fantasy would be cancelled after issue #15 was the only reason Goodman allowed him to use Spider-Man. While this was indeed the issue, its editorial page anticipated the comic continuing. Will appear every month in Amazing, Lee received Goodmans approval for the name Spider-Man and the ordinary teen concept, and approached artist Jack Kirby. Lee and Kirby immediately sat down for a conference, Theakston writes. Steve Ditko would be the inker, when Kirby showed Lee the first six pages, Lee recalled, I hated the way he was doing it. Not that he did it badly—it just wasnt the character I wanted, Lee turned to Ditko, who developed a visual style Lee found satisfactory.
Ditko recalled, One of the first things I did was to work up a costume, a vital, visual part of the character. I had to know how he looked, for example, A clinging power so he wouldnt have hard shoes or boots, a hidden wrist-shooter versus a web gun and holster, etc. I wasnt sure Stan would like the idea of covering the characters face and it would add mystery to the character. Although the interior artwork was by Ditko alone, Lee rejected Ditkos cover art, as Lee explained in 2010, I think I had Jack sketch out a cover for it because I always had a lot of confidence in Jacks covers
