Posted by Steven Kilpatrick (TMS) at dialup-65.56.124.126.dial1.dallas1.level3.net on November 13, 2002 at 03:27:40:
In Reply to: the thing is........... posted by everkorn81 on November 13, 2002 at 03:03:16:
Marvel didn't even want it in the running because it wasn't their kind of book. Lee took a huge risk writing it and putting it in the defunct Amazing Fantasy anyway.
Plus, it's not like they rewrote the origin of Spider-man.
Other than a few cosmetic changes it was the same old Spidey Origin. That means that Lee pretty much wrote the story they used and created the character.
If in a few years they make a movie with Venom, then I say Lee only gets a small percent, but since this was based on his character, and his original story...
I say pay the man.