Current Events > How do people downplay the contributions of Stan Lee?

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Stan Lee was instrumental in teaching millions (billions?) of kids reading skills and morality

He was pretty much the modern day Homer. Superheros have become the modern mythology of our time.

Wait NVM,Comic books are for kids. hurrrrr, durrrrrrr.!!!

For every hero you create you create a villain too.
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Stan Lee was literally involved in creating a couple manga, a couple anime, voice acted in an anime, a handful of his Marvel heroes were adapted to anime, and there was still a guy on the anime board demanding the Stan Lee topic deleted for being off topic lol.

Irony posted...

For every hero you create you create a villain too.

This is deep
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Slayerblade11 posted...

Stan Lee was instrumental in teaching millions (billions?) of kids reading skills and morality

I never actually thought of it that way and I like this perspective.
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Irony posted...

For every hero you create you create a villain too.

going by wikipedia, in spider-man's case it's more like a little over 25
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mostly because he was a glory hound who stole other peoples work.
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monkmith posted...

mostly because he was a glory hound who stole other peoples work.

Care to elaborate? Ive never looked into his history.
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monkmith posted...

mostly because he was a glory hound who stole other peoples work.

If you're talking about Kirby, they cocreated the characters. The characters don't work without Stan's writing and Jack's designs.

As for gloryhound, maybe, but the other guys at Marvel encouraged it because they actively shunned the spotlight.
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Because Lee wasn't the sole creative head during his tenure, and was the focus of nearly every media appearance.

But he was still the head during Marvel's boom period that created most of the mythos, and his importance can't be ignored or is lessened.
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Hexenherz posted...

Slayerblade11 posted...

Stan Lee was instrumental in teaching millions (billions?) of kids reading skills and morality

I never actually thought of it that way and I like this perspective.

Yes, billions would be illiterate without him. And I think we all learn our fundamental mode of being from comic books.

Spiderman taught me, "with great power, you need to be careful." Hulk taught me to smash things when I am angry. The X-Men taught me something about gay people, I think.
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brandunh11 posted...

monkmith posted...

mostly because he was a glory hound who stole other peoples work.

Care to elaborate? Ive never looked into his history.

It's more of a case that he worked a lot with Kirby and other people to create them but Lee gets all or a disproportionately large amount of the credit. It's not really that big of a deal and nowhere near as fucked as what happened to the creator of Batman.
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Stan Lee was always upfront that he was co-creator of Marvel characters.
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Tyranthraxus posted...

brandunh11 posted...

monkmith posted...

mostly because he was a glory hound who stole other peoples work.

Care to elaborate? Ive never looked into his history.

It's more of a case that he worked a lot with Kirby and other people to create them but Lee gets all or a disproportionately large amount of the credit. It's not really that big of a deal and nowhere near as fucked as what happened to the creator of Batman.

That isn't Lee's fault though.

Lee always stressed that he was the co creator. People have this misconception that he was the sole creator because his fellow creators didn't promote themselves the way he did.

For example, Ditko and Lee have about equal status in creating Spider-man

The difference is that Ditko was a guy who liked his privacy and avoided the limelight. To the point where it is actually really tough to find photos and interviews of him. Stan Lee was a charismatic guy who talked a lot and really put himself and the characters out there.

It's damn near impossible to not find a photo of him. He constantly attend comic conventions and appeared in countless interviews and cameos. People like George Lucas learned how to market their properties from him.

Stan Lee was the father to Billy and Jimmy Lee in the Double Dragon comics.
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