This is one of those stories that can only be evaluated as what they are: several opposing versions in which everyone is probably right. Officially Spider-Man was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko to make his first appearance in 1962.

It is also known that Lee first turned to Kirby, one of the creators of Captain America and his companion for the usual drawing, for the creation of the character. However, Kirby's design did not convince Lee, who ended up turning to Ditko, then an upward cartoonist, who ended up shaping his final image. For years Kirby has repeatedly accused Lee of being an editor who was awarding himself all ideas, and Ditko for his part has assured that although Kirby had drawn 5 pages of a hero named Spider-man, this was nothing like how the character would end up being. Ditko himself attempted to settle the subject by representing what his Spider-man and Kirby's original would look like Captain America.

However, the story is enlarged by a so-called yellow mask but very similar to Spidey's that became fashionable on the Halloweens of the 1950s. Did Lee get the idea from somewhere? Was it pure inspiration? He has acknowledged being inspired by a pulp movie character named after a fighter, but this story will always be open and surely because it has to be. In the end, in a creative work between several people, it is not fair to award the full credit to one. Lee was the one who went to the cartoonists he worked with, and vice versa.

What is true is that for a few years now it has been circulating on the net that would supposedly be the original Spider-man costume created by Kirby. A hero dressed in red with a gun. Although this may have been the case, the design is an assembly created from an original Giant-man drawing. Although it is quite well to say that Spider-man started by publishing with this aspect and then taking the one we all know, the truth is that he did not. He started out in a suit almost the same as what we see Tom Holland wearing now in the most recent films.

However, this story of so many disputes had a happy ending, with Kirby and Lee reconciling at San Diego at Comic-Con in 1993. Kirby died later that year and, after asking Kirby's widow Roz for permission, Lee attended his funeral, as told in Marvel: The Untold Story.