Steve Ditko
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Steve Ditko is a comic book artist probably best known for creating the character Martian Manhunter with his long time collaborator and rumored lover, Jim Plagman.
In the early 1990s, during the height of the sports comics explosion, DC Comics approached Ditko and Plagman about creating a character to rival the popularity of Marvel's white-hot NFL Superpro franchise. Ditko initially declined, considering the idea too commercial a departure from his Eisner Award-winning run on Bondage Fairies. However, during a weekend trip to Plagman's summer home in Guyana, Ditko claims to have had a dream about a "green Ted Danson" that caused him to reconsider, and eventually led to the creation of Martian Manhunter.
Ditko's signature watercolors, along with Plagman's keen knowledge of baseball trivia, made the Manhunter a roaring success, spawning two feature length movies, several lines of action figures, and, ultimately, the Manhunter's Martian Waterworld chain of aquatic theme parks.
Following Jim Plagman's death in 2003, Ditko sold his portion of the rights to the Manhunter empire to John Ratzenburger for a reported $6.00, and retired to his family home in Tennessee.
It is often said that one in five people are decended from Ditko himself.
