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Amen. His legacy is Olympian. I however believe his creative genius FAR exceeds the others you placed on the list, save for Picasso, and that is a bit apples-to-oranges. However credit is apportioned with his co-creators (and will we ever know?) from the Marvel process, Stan's pantheon trumps the rest of them. Spielberg wrote few of the screenplays for the pictures he is known for (I believe he wrote "Close Encounters" but not E.T. nor "Raiders"). Lucas' legacy, as much as I myself enjoyed it as it unfolded, is way too derivative (I'm being kind here) to be mentioned in the same breath as Lee. Jobs, like Zuckerberg, mostly took other people's ideas and ran with them. All influential, yes, but Lee exceeded them all both in terms of creative output and the cultural legacy thereof. Like Lee and Kirby (or Lee and Ditko), the credit for other stalwarts like Superman and Batman is similarly divided, but Seigel, Schuster, Kane, Finger, et al. conspired to create singular icons. Superman is more a discontinuity than Batman, admittedly, the latter being very derivative (ex. pulp characters Black Bat and Shadow), so in my mind he looms larger. Sure, upon their debut, the Fantastic Four vaguely resemble the Challengers, but things in their universe quickly veered cosmic and far beyond any team book - or comic book - before it. The same can be said of most of the other Marvel brood. Curiously, there are prototypes for characters such as Ant-Man and Iron Man, but even the prototypes themselves were penned by Stan's great hand in those pre-hero Atlas and Marvel offerings! Point is, he was a creative giant almost without peer, and I don't believe that his legacy is yet fully appreciated. R.I.P.

That exact wording may or may not be Lee's, but the sentiment pre-dates Lee entirely. Other twentieth century utterances of the same sentiment include Einstein and Churchill, and it dates even earlier if I recall.

You're being very diplomatic and deferential here...

Solid choices all... I would add a Sgt. Fury and a monster tale or two.

I LOVE seeing those oversized Master Comics up there with the other big dogs. And how telling that Conan is up there with Barks, Timelys, and those grails?? Action 1, Marvel 1, Whiz 2 (1), All-Star 8 and Conan 1: it's like that old Sesame Street skit, "one of these things just doesn't belong." Of course the Conan is still more widely collected than that Roy Rogers next to it. I think that's the horseshoe cover. You could maybe get ten bucks for it.

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Wow, simply stunning books!! Those Voodoo are as archetypical of the pre-code horror genres as are the better EC's, IMHO - colorful, garish, outlandish and over-the-top. It's almost a caricature of the genre itself.

Late also, and I was going to take this one. Dang your similar tastes..!!

Congrats on a really tough book and a great pick-up! There are some ridiculously cool books on this thread!

Thanks for another heaping helping of voyeuristic delights! And it was nice to see the Recorder and the Rigelians make an Earthly appearance...

Owning that many Church books at one time is immoral, as it unfair to other collectors! p.s. Three out of the last four books are kinda sorta (cough) noteworthy.

Wow! That's a stunning result.

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Bronze age goodness all the way. A lot of those look to be upgrades from my long-held readers - at least, that's the plan...

Take Thor 212, 216, 218, 219. 228 at $2 off

Very interesting offerings! Good Luck.

I'll take the FF annual lot for $4 ANNUAL lot 5, 10, 14

I'll take Thor 230-244 @ 5/$10