Marvels systematic plagarism of comics

I just read the Stan Lee interview in Maxim #163 and I'm so sick of his B.S. I'm not trying to say he hasn't done great things for comics but let's try and stick to the facts. In the interview Stan says he dosen't remember any other heroes fighting nazis other than Captain America during the '40's. I guess The Shied slipped his mind. The first patriotic superhero, introduced 15 months before Cap.I belive that is why Cap carries a shield.

MLJ had numerous other characters fighting the axis. The Hangman fought Captain Nazi for several issues. Captian Flag, Steel Sterling, Captain Commando all did battle against the nazis as well.

In the '60's they swipped the idea for Cyclops from the Comet. Jack Cole invented the idea of laser eyes and ruby lenses in PEP COMICS #1. Speaking of Mr.Coles creations,let's not forget Plastic-Man. Published 20 years before Mr.Fantastics first apperance.

The most blatant is the way they stole everything from Superman and gave it to spider-man. Both charaters are weaklings and wear glasses when not in costume. They both work for a newspaper. They both have aged parental figures and are both chasing girls out of their alter egos league. The biggest difference is Superman was created more than 20 years before Spider-man and that Stan Lee has taken all the credit.

I think what happened was that when the guys at marvel saw how well the resurection of super-heroes was going for D.C. and Archie's Mighty Comics Titles Stan Lee & Jack Kirby went into their collection of goldenage books and took everything they could that was no longer under copyright restrictions.

This is the same type of thing that happened when Bob Kane took credit for evrything that ever was created in Batman back in the late '80's when the batman movies were released and Batman blew up.

I think it's sad. I thought Stan would have been classier than this. I hope sometime before he dies he can remember that he didn't invent comic books. He wrote dialogue for them. There were alot of other guys that did great things in this industry that will never get the recognition they deserve.

To me the bottom line is, Stan Lee needs to start droping some names and give some credit where credit is due or in my eyes he'll never be more than a dialogue man who was to ashamed of himself to use his real name in print.

Face Front Stan