Thanos Thanos:
Keep in mind that what was created came out of a partnership between Stan Lee and a group of truly great artists like Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Buscema Sr., Don Heck, John Romita Sr., and many others. Most of those guys passed before Stan did and to a large extent never received either the monetary rewards that they were due from the revenue juggernaut Marvel Comics became, but also never received the cultural acclaim they more than deserved. Sad to say but the comics industry is particularly brutal in it's treatment of it's legendary creators as mere employees, even though without them the business would barely be a shadow of the money-making machine it's become today. RIP to Stan but there are a lot of people out there, artists and writers alike, who've been unjustly forgotten while Marvel, DC, and other companies made untold billions of dollars of profit from what was created and barely gave back a pittance to them.
One of the more egregious examples is Bill Finger who wrote the early Batman stories and was the chief architect of the character's mythology never received credit for his contributions while Bob Kane received the accolades. DC also had to be guilted into recognizing Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster as the creators of Superman and gave them a stipend to avoid bad publicity before the 1978 film.
I suspected one of the chief reasons why Stan Lee received the the lion's share of credit compared to his collaborators was because he directly engaged with the audience via Stan's Soapbox and building the early convention scene. Also take note than Stan was a Writer/Editor and not the publisher--Martin Goodman was--so the decision to compensate artists was above his pay grade. Stan made himself "indispensable" by becoming a one-man public relations department whereas his collaborators were chained to their their desks (figuratively speaking.)
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