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I don't think Stan was malicious when it came to taking credit (Bob Kane taking credit for Batman is different altogether), but he definitely enjoyed the limelight and telling tall tales about who did what, or exaggerating his role.Quote
loog droog
Let's hear it for Stan (The Man) Lee.
Some years back I went to a screening of the first Spider-Man movie in Hollywood where Stan did a Q & A.
I walked right by him before the film ran, and would have loved to have said a few words of appreciation (or gotten a photo with him!) but he was busy talking with someone else.
During the film he sat in the row behind me, and as the end credits rolled I looked at the long list of names and thought about all the people that were employed for this, all because of something that came out of this man's head!
There's a school of thought that Stan took advantage of his artists--Steve Ditko of Spider-Man/Dr. Strange fame, and especially Jack Kirby, who co-created Captain America with Joe Simon in the 40's, and came back to Marvel in the '60's and co-created the rest of the Marvel universe with Stan.
Lee would often hog credit--and he took a lot of crap from comic fans for doing so-- but in later years he would give Jack and Steve their due.
If you grew up when Lee was still an active writer and editor, you know that he was the Mastermind that pulled all the threads of the Marvel Universe together.
And he had a way that making young fans feel like we were a part of it too.
Excelsior!
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donvis
Let’s hear it for Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko instead.
Not to be super-picky, but Miller wrote The Dark Knight RETURNS ('Rises' was the Christopher Nolan movie from 2012), and Alan Moore wrote The Killing Joke.Quote
tomcasagranda
Without Stan Lee, no Frank Miller, who drew Daredevil in the early 80s, and then went on to do The Dark Knight Rises, and The Killing Joke.
I loved the Marvel comics from the 1970s era, with powerful storylines i.e the Death of Gwen Stacey, and even liked one from the 90s wherein Spidey battles a feral Lizard, under the control of Kraven The Hunter, and then, for a brief period, Kraven becomes Spidey (Title forgotten on my part).
I also liked that era wherein Marvel adopted Dracula, created Blade, and Man Wolf, in the 70s.
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donvis
Let’s hear it for Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko instead.