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Happy Birthday Stan Lee!

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ComicConnoisseur

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Happy Birthday to the great creator Stan Lee.

Co-created more famous characters than anybody in pop culture.

No one comes in a close second!

 

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He has created more famous characters than anyone in pop culture, and certainly more than any other comic book writer.

 

According to Wikipedia, the top 3 are:

 

Stan Lee 336

Jack Kirby 316

Roy Thomas 152

 

No one else broke 100 on their listing.

 

You can see why Marvel was able to call themselves the house of ideas, as those three spent most of the career (and Stan all of his career) at Marvel!

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were the John Lennon and Paul McCartney of comics!

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Happy Birthday to the great creator Stan Lee.

Co-created more famous characters than anybody in pop culture.

No one comes in a close second!

 

+1

 

He has created more famous characters than anyone in pop culture, and certainly more than any other comic book writer.

 

According to Wikipedia, the top 3 are:

 

Stan Lee 336

Jack Kirby 316

Roy Thomas 152

 

No one else broke 100 on their listing.

 

You can see why Marvel was able to call themselves the house of ideas, as those three spent most of the career (and Stan all of his career) at Marvel!

 

Is that just comics, or would that potentially include other pop culture figures like Walt Disney? He would have been my 1st choice.

 

If we are including everything, and I mean everything. Walt Disney developed or created far more characters. Just in one movie there were one hundred and one dalmatians. Seriously, not being silly here. If Marvel is going to count every single one of Peter Parker's girlfriends or girl-friends as characters created by Stan Lee (Betty Brant, Liz Allen) then every tertiary Disney character has Walt's hand in it from cartoon short until the Jungle Book (which was the last movie he was directly involved in.) There are even characters that he had a hand in the creative process that were shelved until after after his death when the ideas and films were fully developed such as the Disney version of the Little Mermaid which Disney started developing along with Snow White in the 1930's when he started to develop some of of the classic fairy tales.

Walt Disney a genius took other properties such as

Snow White

Dumbo

Pinocchio

Peter Pan

etc

and made them his own.

 

If you compare the creation of characters. Stan and Jack win and win big!

A lot of comic book fans seem to take Stan and Jack for granted.

 

Again, Walt Disney was a genius,but even he didn`t create as many popular iconic characters as Stan and Jack did.

 

After Stan,Jack and Walt it`s not even close in pop culture.

 

Yep, Lucas,Spielberg and Roddenberry created iconic characters,but not at the volume Stan and Jack did.

 

 

 

 

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Happy Birthday to the great creator Stan Lee.

Co-created more famous characters than anybody in pop culture.

No one comes in a close second!

 

+1

 

He has created more famous characters than anyone in pop culture, and certainly more than any other comic book writer.

 

According to Wikipedia, the top 3 are:

 

Stan Lee 336

Jack Kirby 316

Roy Thomas 152

 

No one else broke 100 on their listing.

 

You can see why Marvel was able to call themselves the house of ideas, as those three spent most of the career (and Stan all of his career) at Marvel!

 

Who are you, and what have you done with Chuck G?

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Happy Birthday to the great creator Stan Lee.

Co-created more famous characters than anybody in pop culture.

No one comes in a close second!

 

+1

 

He has created more famous characters than anyone in pop culture, and certainly more than any other comic book writer.

 

According to Wikipedia, the top 3 are:

 

Stan Lee 336

Jack Kirby 316

Roy Thomas 152

 

No one else broke 100 on their listing.

 

You can see why Marvel was able to call themselves the house of ideas, as those three spent most of the career (and Stan all of his career) at Marvel!

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were the John Lennon and Paul McCartney of comics!

:cloud9:

 

Not even close Stan and Jack were the Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin of Comics!

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