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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Stan Lee ain't dying yet. He's still actively working at Marvel despite being 93, so his health can't be too bad.
I mean, yeah, tragedy could always strike, but it's not like the man has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel or something.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!He's still involved to some degree, though, he's just not directly writing comics anymore.
Though he did release an autobiography in comic book form last year. I'd recommend reading it, it's pretty good and informative on both the man and the company.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!If you're interested in the history of Marvel Comics, I would also recommend Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
by Sean Howe, which is pretty fascinating.
I don't suppose he was ever the best writer Marvel ever had, but he is the most visible.
I don't know about the allegations.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectThere is plenty. Stan Lee is not exactly what anyone would call humble. He says J. Jonah Jameson is based on himself and that may be more true than he realizes.
The Marvel Method of writing comics has so much individual artist input necessary that they practically wrote the whole danged things themselves and Stan Lee just added the dialogue.
I mean he's a funny dude, an excellent marketer, basically a perfect advertiser and hype man, it's why it's so easy to attribute stuff to him, he has that personality and writing style that makes him a fantastic face for something but he's not exactly a God of writing. Nor of appreciating the work of his partners.
For those unfamiliar, the Marvel Method is where the writer basically hands the artist a sort of summary paragraph or more of the comic and about how many pages it should be, then the artist pretty much makes the whole comic and then the writer comes back later to add dialogue to whatever the artist made.
edited 11th Jan '16 5:56:13 PM by MousaThe14
The Blog The ArtOne thing I love about Lee's autobiography is that whenever Jack Kirby is on-panel, he has Kirby Dots around him, whether it's in the smoke from his cigar or angry fuming from his head.
edited 11th Jan '16 5:58:12 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!It sounds like the Marvel method would be best to credit both Lee and Kirby, then. Lee would be the idea man, and Kirby would be the one who translated those ideas and added ones of his own.
Of course, I did read that Stan and Steve Ditko were somewhat at odds when it came to Spider-Man. Ditko put a sketch of Spider-Man swinging past some protesters and shaking his fist like he was angry at them (which was his intent). Stan made the dialogue where Spidey was giving them some support, just to kind of tick Ditko off. Plus, it was Stan's idea to make Norman Osborne the Green Goblin. Ditko wanted a random stranger that we'd never seen before.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?Lee's specific Marvel Method of writing a comic was to basically tell the artist exactly what happened in the issue, talking on the phone (or in person) for an hour or two and then the artist would go and draw what he described and then Stan would add the dialogue.
What this meant, really, was that the artist was responsible for basically pacing out the entire issue and sometimes even plotting it out (Steve Ditko has said that, towards the end, he almost never spoke to Lee and instead just drew what he wanted and Lee would write whatever dialogue fit). That's why a lot of the time the credits would list Lee and the artist as "co-writers" or they would list the artist as "co-plotter."
Lee was a lot more visible than a lot of the artists, though (he was basically the face of Marvel), so it may have seemed that he took a lot of the credit (and, to be fair, he wasn't that quick to dispute people who called him the creator of Spider-Man or the FF).
edited 11th Jan '16 6:06:41 PM by alliterator
Stan couldn't even keep names straight.
Like Bob Bruce David "Donald Blake" Banner or Peter Palmer
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAlliterations get confusing after a while, man.
edited 11th Jan '16 6:09:21 PM by AdricDePsycho
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?

Should Stan Lee die, I hope they start sticking portrays and/or Photos of him in the background. Or a statue. Wouldn't it be hilarious if a planet in Got G had a Lan Stee Statue?