I've learned what Stan Lee did to leech off of the legacy of Jack Kirby and so I'm no fanboy. He's massively important as an ambassador for comics but his seeming importance is definitely at least partially a fairy tail. I think he probably held Marvel intact between the 40s and 60s, but much of what he's known for that put Marvel on the map and made it what it was wasn't necessarily his doing. I highly doubt that if he hadn't been working with Kirby while creating the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man that it would have had a fraction of the impact, both culturally and creatively.
But the man was no doubt a legend who was massively important to comics, I just can't give him the credit he so clearly thought he deserved. I think he was more administrator than creator.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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