Cowan or Siegel -who created The Spider?

'John Kerry' (who has absolutely no information on his profile or a blog so I'm not even sure that is his real name) wrote in comments:

"Actually Jerry Siegel didn't create The Spider. He was the second writer on the feature. The first was Ted Cowan. Siegel was the writer though when the character went from being a villain to being a hero."

Whereas Gil Page, who had been with Amalgamated Press/IPC/Fleetway for over 40 years and actually handled the signed scripts noted that there was "a big buzz around the office" that the creator of Superman had created this character.

I go with what someone who was involved very closely with the company, management and creative talent tpold me -he had, after all, also handled the scripts. A contract between creator and company would prove who did what....except UK companies did not do contracts.

Also, a former editor confirmed what Page told me.

Gil Page's interview is to be re-published soon so you can read all of this word-for-word.

Thank you for your comment by the way.

Incidentally, the interview from 2001 (published March 2002) was the first detailed interview Gil did