Quote Originally Posted by davew128 View Post
That is...difficult to believe. Even in his Hollywood days, Simon was basically a stunt man, because he was invulnerable, not an actual star.

As a front line hero, Clint has also been gotten a lot more notoriety going back to his days in Cap's Kooky Quartet. Hell it was national news in-story when he "killed" Banner. It's only been recently that suddenly Clint's a nobody again.
Actually, no, Simon was a celebrity as a movie star for a while there due to the success of the Arkon movies -- for a while there during the original WCA run Simon's success started going to his head and he briefly considered quitting the Avengers to focus on his movie career. He started in stunt work, but he did get some actual acting movie roles as well.

Its true that Clint is also a "celebrity"--all of the long-term classic Avengers members are. But Wonder Man falls into that category as well (from multiple stints with the 'main' Avengers team as well as being a member of the West Coast team for almost its entire existence) AND he's got the added celebrity factor of his Hollywood career, so its not unreasonable to think that Simon would technically be a bigger celebrity just due to the double level of exposure. Plus it might be different if they were back in New York, rather than in L.A.