Stan Lee says, "All the concepts were mine" (Village Voice, Vol.32 #49, Dec. 1987).   It is his contention that he singly came up with the idea, produced a script, offered it to Jack Kirby for illustration, and when he didn't like the look of Kirby's rendition, he then offered it to Steve Ditko.    Can he be believed?   Not really.  Stan would go so far (or stoop so low!) as to claim that a minor character named The Living Eraser from Tales to Astonish #49 was his creation    This character, had the dubious distinction of being able to wave people out of existence with a swipe of his hand. "I got a big kick out of it when I dreamed up that idea," Lee is quoted. (Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics, pg. 97).   He further embellished this tale by stating how hard it was to come up with an explanation for this power.   The fact is, this ignoble power and explanation, first appear in a Jack Kirby story from Black Cat Mystic #59 (Harvey Publications, Sept. 1957).    If Lee will take credit for an obvious minor Kirby concept, which nobody cares about, then he certainly would take credit for another's creation that has become the company's cash cow.  


Please note that a similar cover appears on Captain Marvel Adventures 97 which is, a lawyer would argue, where Kirby swiped the concept from. 

Neither Stan Lee NOR Jack Kirby had good memories and Joe Simon insisted the name SPIDERMAN  was something HE invented and did a logo for.  Jack took that logo, Simon's work, into Stan and presented it as HIS work.  Jack then proposed a swipe of the Fly that Stan turned down after seeing some pages of Jack's effort.  Joe Simon has a better claim to Spidey than Jack does.

Frankly, IMNHO, this is going to make some lawyers rich and end in the Kirby Estate getting clobbered in court if they can't weasel out some settlement first.

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