Vent: I just found out how many comics Stan Lee actually wrote and my brain broke

I was reading this old interview from 1998 in a magazine I got at a flea market, and the guy said Stan Lee didn't write most of the Spider-Man issues after the first 100 or so. I always thought he wrote everything from the 60s. I looked it up, and for a lot of those classic runs, he was just doing the plots and other people did the full scripts. It's wild how the story gets told one way for so long. Has anyone else had a fact about a creator hit them like that?

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garcia.jake4d agoMost Upvoted

Yeah, that "story gets told one way" thing is a gut punch. I felt the same as @miles_robinson20, but about thinking my dad invented the dad joke (turns out he just stole them all).

betty_perry243d ago

Totally get that feeling. Makes you wonder what other "one man show" stories are actually a bunch of people working together (and not getting the credit).

miles_robinson204d ago

Honestly, that part about the story getting told one way for so long is so true. Tbh I had the same feeling when I learned Jack Kirby did way more for the Marvel look than I ever knew. You hear one name for years and just assume they did it all. It really changes how you see those old comics.