That Spidey suit Cimino bought was produced by Ben Cooper, Inc., a now-defunct Brooklyn company founded in 1937. Lee has said that the hero was inspired by a 1930s pulp crime fighter called the Spider.ĭitko designed the costume to “fit in with the powers he had,” the artist wrote in a 1990 issue of Robin Snyder’s “History of the Comics.”īut could the illustrator have actually found inspiration in a child’s costume? He was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man first appeared in 1962’s “Amazing Fantasy” No. He tossed it in his basement.īut Cimino would later give that costume a closer look, and what he discovered has led to one of the more puzzling mysteries in the superhero world, and might muddy the origin story of one of the world’s most well-known - and lucrative - characters. “I didn’t think twice about it,” Cimino tells The Post. Within the assortment of pop-culture oddities for which Cimino paid $500 was a cheap, rayon-and-cotton Halloween costume from the 1960s featuring Spider-Man. None of this might have happened were it not for one unfortunate Spider-Man fan whose boiler broke down.īack in 2006, comic book and toy dealer John Cimino bought a collection from a seller who needed money for a new hot-water heater.
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