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Jul 8, 2017 · It is possible that his old creative partner Jack Kirby saw this 1971 episode, and satirized Stan Lee, toupee and all in Mr. Miracle 6, 1972. This issue was made after Jack left Marvel and went over to DC, and satirized Stan Lee as “Funky Flashman” as a verbose user and abuser of artistic talent, working as a driver of slaves in a happy “Marvel” family.
- Kirby & Lee First Met at Timely Comics in 1940
- A Decade Later, Lee & Kirby Met Again at Marvel, Where Their Collaboration Began
- Kirby & Lee Parted Ways on Bad Terms
- Kirby & Lee Each Claimed to Be The True Creator of The Fantastic Four
- Lee Said Kirby’s Last Words to Him Were Forgiving
Timely Comics was the business that eventually turned into Marvel. In 1940, both Jack Kirby and Stan Lee were working there as artists. Their first meeting was not a big success. Lee reportedly described Kirby as an unapproachable loner; he said, “I could never get close to Kirby because he was sitting at his desk drawing all the time, puffing on h...
Kirby left Timely Comics, and Lee, who stayed on, was promoted to the position of editor. Timely turned into Marvel Comics. And in 1958, Kirby came back to work at Marvel. That’s when Kirby and Lee finally started putting their heads together and creating some of the legendary comic book characters who are still known today. Working together, Lee a...
By the late sixties, Kirby had become dissatisfied with his work at Marvel Comics. He was reportedly jealous of all the media attention that Stan Lee was getting. The two men also had disputes about credit-grabbing, with Kirby accusing Lee of taking the credit for his work. And of course, they were in very different positions at Marvel; Lee was the...
After Kirby and Lee parted ways, both men claimed credit for the wildly popular Fantastic Four series. Lee initially had said that the Fantastic Four was a collaborative effort. But by 1974, he was claiming full credit for the inspiration behind the series. Lee wrote, in 1974, that the Fantastic Four was the result of a midlife crisis that he was g...
Jack Kirby passed away in 1994. (Stan Lee died on November 12, 2018.) Before Kirby died, he apparently found time to mend fences with his long-time rival, Stan Lee. By Lee’s account, the two men ran into each other at a comic book convention. They didn’t have a long conversation. But they did walk up to each other — and, Lee says, Kirby made it cle...
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Feb 16, 2021 · The Stan Lee Story That Tore Apart Marvel Comics Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko were heroes in “the House of Ideas.” But a 1966 profile gave all the credit to one superman.
Nov 13, 2018 · Everyone, except Jack Kirby. “Stan Lee was a pest,” Kirby told The Comics Journal in an infamous 1989 interview. “He liked to irk people and it was one thing I couldn’t take.” ...
InHumans by Kirby and Lee. Jack Kirby and Stan Lee were, without doubt, the greatest team in the history of comics: they were to comics what John Lennon and Paul McCartney were to songwriting. Together, they worked on quite a number of projects, including the Avengers (a classic grouping of comic heroes) the X-men, the Fantastic Four and the Hulk.
