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DFW

(54,397 posts)
Mon Dec 22, 2014, 06:07 AM Dec 2014

Happy 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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Happy Birthday Stan Lee ! (Original Post) DFW Dec 2014 OP
Thanks Stan for all of the comic books I started reading 45 years ago! Wish my mom hadn't Dustlawyer Dec 2014 #1
Happy Birthday, Stan! Excelsior! Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2014 #2
You Look Marvelous Omaha Steve Dec 2014 #3
Um, you did know he's really Abe Vigoda under that mask... Prisoner_Number_Six Dec 2014 #4
92? Happy Birthday! Nuff said! nt raouldukelives Dec 2014 #5
Happy Birthday Mr Lee reddread Dec 2014 #6
Happy Birthday Stan Lee! Xyzse Dec 2014 #7

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
1. Thanks Stan for all of the comic books I started reading 45 years ago! Wish my mom hadn't
Mon Dec 22, 2014, 07:41 AM
Dec 2014

thrown them all away!

Prisoner_Number_Six

(15,676 posts)
4. Um, you did know he's really Abe Vigoda under that mask...
Mon Dec 22, 2014, 08:30 AM
Dec 2014

Hey, I really thought you should know...

Excelsior!

 

reddread

(6,896 posts)
6. Happy Birthday Mr Lee
Mon Dec 22, 2014, 09:06 AM
Dec 2014

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!

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