Posted by Darth Dobbin at 65.220.74.194 on November 08, 2002 at 11:13:45:
In Reply to: Not a question of change chunkiness posted by TheOppositeOfAboveMe on November 08, 2002 at 10:07:50:
senseless things.
Knew you not Howard?
http://www.toonopedia.com/howard.htm
Stan Lee has taken far too much credit for Spider Man (largely a Ditko creation), X-Men (way largely a Kirby creation), and sort of sold the young, uninformed geek populace that he was the Leonardo of the comics, creating masterpiece after masterpiece alone. There's this universally accepted myth that all these characters were sprung from his head like Athena being birthed fully clothed from Zeus' head.
Ain't the case. Most of the stories were really 'written' by the artists.. (The "MARVEL STYLE" of writing, pioneered by Lee is really just a captioning and dialogue-exercise, after-the fact..)
I'm not saying Stan didn't play a huuuge part in saving comics, and re-defining the Super Hero as we know it.
I'm just saying it is not as big as you might believe, and that in the past, he's screwed the real innovators left and right, in a similar fashion.
But none of them had a cushy $1M "here you go for past services rendered" deal.
Again, I really do like Stan Lee. But he is being treated much more fairly than he treated others.
Pick up MYTH OF 8-OPUS. It's enlightening.