With that being said, I have only one question left:
Who created Spider-Man? Stan Lee, Steve Ditko or Jack Kirby?
With that being said, I have only one question left:
Who created Spider-Man? Stan Lee, Steve Ditko or Jack Kirby?
I will now drop the huge bombshell that Stan Lee liked Spider-Man and Silver Surfer more than other characters.
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I think at least some of us think Stan’s favourite and greatest creation was “good old Uncle Stan”.
I have wondered a few times in recent weeks if Stan deliberately styled his latter day public persona on Walt Disney.
There was likely an influence, yeah.
The difference is that Disney's public persona was more staid and formal, trying to be everyone's dad and grandpa, while Stan Lee's affect was "Cool Uncle" or if you want to be less charitable, embarrassing uncle at weddings. Ultimately every 'cool uncle' becomes the embarrassing uncle because coolness fades.
This early Stan Lee video from the 1960s before he molded his famous look shows Lee trying the Walt Disney '60s TV style:
Eventually he created his own persona. Tom Scioli's graphic novel/biography of Kirby has a couple of panels expressing Kirby's reactions to Lee's personality change (which is drawn from opinions he had stated on different occasions privately and publicly) and also the deliberate process by which Lee transformed himself from the guy in the video to the guy in the cameos:
Tom Scioli - Kirby on Lee persona Change 1.jpg
Tom Scioli - Kirby on Lee persona Change 2.jpg
When Stan changed his look, he tried calling Kirby "Jackie" which the latter hated. That actually did happen. By the way Kirby in-person always called Lee "Stanley".
Last edited by Revolutionary_Jack; 06-17-2021 at 07:40 AM.