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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHappy Birthday Stan Lee !
Stan is 92 years old today! Knowing him, he'll probably say "big deal," and go into the office as usual, creating some kind of new action characters that will be the next sensation 18 months from now.
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Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)thrown them all away!
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,838 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,653 posts)Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)Hey, I really thought you should know...
Excelsior!
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)I suppose if someone was going to tell me Kirby had died, I am glad it was you.
I deeply resent the mistreatment and severely unfair behavior Jack Kirby experienced
in his last decade of life at the hands of a frightened corporate juggernaut that was not created by Lee
but by Jack Kirby, top to bottom. Stan Lee could have rewritten that sad history himself, doubtlessly.
That story is well documented and understood by fans and historians of the period.
I wish they had both lived equally long and lucrative lives.
Very glad Disney blinked and the Kirby Family has something to show for The King's creativity.
Kirby will be remembered as the ultimate superhero artist, always.
I dont think history will extend Lee as much credit, at all.
Nevertheless I am proud to possess pages from the last book he wrote in his career (CA 141)
and a splash page with Stan Lee credited as writer.
His true contribution was not the prose which often polluted a beautifully drawn Ditko Spider-man story,
or worse his outright theft, abuse and near murder of one of the most famous Kirby creation, the Silver Surfer.
His greatest contribution was as art director and selector of a stable of excellent artists.
How he chose to treat George Tuska, an all time great, was pitiful.
After years of notably great selling contributions, when Tuska told Lee about taking a newspaper strip
assignment for DC he was actually BLACKLISTED and never worked for Marvel again.
Petty hardball vendetta, from a guy who claimed to have no influence in those later years.
He holds the bag on a few decades of horrific behavior towards talented creators.
Happy Birthday Stan!