If its just Stan Lee alone, pretty much nobody. I doubt anyone has been able to contribute as much to the industry as he has, or break the kind of ground that he did.
Giving him those powersets is like a downgrade lol.
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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Yes it is arguable. Jack Kirby said that he came up with lots of the ideas but he was bad at writing dialogue which is where Stan came in. But the implication was that Kirby wasn't just the artist but came up with lots of the ideas for the characters and who they were. Supposedly, he would work out a synopsis of what happened in a lot of the stories and then Stan would write them from what Kirby laid out.
Power with Girl is better.
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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There is a significant difference in quality between the Lee/Kirby collaborations and everything that Kirby did without Lee. For example, Kirby came back to Marvel for a while in the mid-'70s, at a time when Stan had stepped away from daily operations to focus on pitching Marvel characters in Hollywood. We got a slew of second-rate Kirby covers, and the very disappointing Kirby runs on Captain America and Black Panther. The BP run was so bad that Priest mocked it in his BP book.
Composite Kirby would also have a slew of characters from DC including pretty much the whole Fourth World.
From what I understand from reading many different witnesses over the years it basically went like this...Supposedly, he would work out a synopsis of what happened in a lot of the stories and then Stan would write them from what Kirby laid out.
Stan would have an idea (usually). The idea may be very in depth or it may be just a vague two sentences he jotted down on a napkin. (Sometimes he wouldn't have an idea and would ask Jack what he wanted to do).
Stan and Jack would talk. They'd shoot the ideas back and forth, changing things around, offering ideas, and working off each other. Some witnesses have even claimed to have seen Jack and Stan in their office acting out the comic plots (I would have loved to see Stan and Jack doing a Thing/Dr. Doom scene in person.)
From there, Jack went on to draw the issue. He would ignore a lot of the ideas Stan gave him and do what he wanted (for the most part) and leave detailed notes in the sidelines of what was going on, what he intended, and what characters should be doing or saying.
Stan would get the art, ignore the notes and do what he wanted writing all the dialogue, captions, and thought balloons.
Jack never read the finished comics, so he would just assume all his ideas made it in.
On rare occasions, Stan would have Jack redraw something that didn't work, but this was mostly just cover stuff.