![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lee's contributions to the early Marvel Universe and its characters and stories are as innumerable as they are hard to pin down, as the line between Lee's work and that of his collaborators such as Kirby, Steve Ditko, and others, is often blurry.īut Lee's biggest true contribution not just to the endurance of the Marvel Universe, but to the comic industry overall - and one that rests on the laurels of his title as 'editor,' back before Marvel started using the term 'editor-in-chief' - is his elevation of comic book creators from being nearly anonymous and often uncredited to being almost heroic names in their own right, recognizable to comic readers and able to build followings just like prose authors, actors, and other entertainers. (Of course, if you count his time with Timely and Atlas, which began in 1939, Stan Lee worked for the company that eventually became Marvel Comics for 57 years, including starting as its editor-in-chief in 1945). ![]()
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