Stan Lee (Stanley Lieber) MARVEL bows out: What a Super Hero! November 13, 2018
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Stan Lee is responsible for a huge chunk of the Marvel Universe—but not all of it. Not only did Lee rely on talented artists like Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and John Buscema to bring characters like the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and the Incredible Hulk to life, but as Marvel’s superhero line expanded, so too did its roster of creators, many of whom dreamed up characters with minimal input from Stan.
That hasn’t stopped Mr. Lee from cameoing in practically every project with a Marvel Studios logo slapped on it—hey, Stan’s gotta eat—but don’t get the wrong idea. The Marvel Universe wouldn’t exist without Stan Lee, but he’s far from the only person responsible for its success.
Captain America, Marvel Studios’ standard bearer and the so-called “First Avenger,” was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby while Stan Lee (then going by his real name, Stanley Lieber) was still an assistant. “I went down and got them their lunch, I did proofreading, I erased the pencils from the finished pages for them,” Lee later recalled. Meanwhile, Simon and Kirby were hard at work creating a hero that would both capitalize on the growing superhero craze (Action Comics #1, which introduced Superman to the world, sparked a slew of imitators when it came out in 1938) and make a defiant statement about the real-world political scene.
“We both read the newspapers. We knew what was going on over in Europe,” Simon explained, and neither he nor Kirby were going to sit idly by as fascism spread across the continent. “World events gave us the perfect comic-book villain, Adolf Hitler, with his ranting, goose-stepping and ridiculous mustache,” Simon said, and ol’ winghead was originally designed to be Hitler’s arch-nemesis. On the cover of Captain America Comics #1, Captain America punches Hitler right in the face—a bold move, given that America wouldn’t formally enter World War II for another year.
Of course, over time, Lee did contribute quite a bit to the Captain America mythos. His first credited writing gig was a story in Captain America Comics #3, which sees Cap throw his shield like a boomerang for the very first time. Captain America’s revival as a modern superhero, which began in Avengers #4 when Cap was found frozen in a block of ice, was a Stan Lee joint.
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