May 10, 2005
Fantastic Four Article Includes Kirby

This site recently wondered out loud how news articles about the forthcoming
Fantastic Four movie might handle the Lee/Kirby co-creation credit given (1) the recent Lee court victory, (2) recent appearances of Lee's name in the press as sole creator, and (3) the fact that on a certain level Lee claims to have been the primary creator of the FF characters perhaps more than any other because it was a new idea and not really part of Marvel's later writer/artist creative back and forth.
Alex Chun's brief LA Times piece on Lee's cameos provides one solution, that smart writers will be sure to emphasize Kirby anyway, and may use the standard of creating the original series as opposed to focusing on the characters and concepts. It's also worth nothing that the Fantastic Four director quoted doesn't seem to make that same co-creation allowance. It's an amusing article besides. That Stan Lee hadn't played a character of his own creation until this summer's Willie Lumpkin was news to me, and odd that this creation predated the modern Marvel universe. Some might suggest he already played his greatest character, "Stan Lee," in Kevin Smith's
Mallrats.
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