Stan Lee’s legendary profession as a Marvel Comics author is the topic of a glowing new documentary produced by the corporate that now owns his most iconic characters. “Stan Lee” started streaming on Disney+ on Friday following its premiere on the Tribeca Film Festival, and diehard Marvel followers have praised David Gelb’s film for paying tribute to a person who’s synonymous with comic books. However others have criticized the movie for oversimplifying a nuanced story.
Neal Kirby, the son of Lee’s longtime accomplice Jack Kirby, took to his daughter’s Twitter account on Saturday to release a statement condemning what he sees because the movie’s omission of his father’s contributions. Whereas Lee and Kirby are credited as co-creating most of their iconic characters, comedian trade observers have lengthy questioned if Lee’s media persona led to him getting a bigger share of the credit score than he deserved. Neal Kirby accused the documentary of perpetuating that narrative.
“I perceive that, as a ‘documentary about Stan Lee,’ many of the narrative is in his voice, actually and figuratively,” Kirby wrote. “It’s not any massive secret that there has all the time been controversy over the elements that had been performed within the creation and success of Marvel’s characters. Stan Lee had the lucky circumstance to have entry to the company megaphone and media, and he used these to create his personal mythos as to the creation of the Marvel character pantheon. He made himself the voice of Marvel. So, for a number of a long time he was the ‘solely’ man standing, and blessed with an extended life, the final man standing (my father died in 1994).”
He continued, “Are we to imagine Lee had a hand in creating each Marvel character? Are we to imagine that it was by no means the opposite cocreator that walked into Lee’s workplace and stated, ‘Stan I’ve a fantastic concept for a personality!’ In response to Lee, it was all the time his concept. Lee spends a good period of time speaking about how and why he created the Implausible 4, with just one fleeting reference to my father.”
Kirby additionally took a jab at Lee’s intelligence, saying that his father was extra well-rounded and infused his comics with context that Lee would have been incapable of including.
“It ought to be famous and is usually accepted that Stan Lee had a restricted information of historical past, mythology, or science.” he wrote. “However, my father’s information of those topics, to which I and lots of others can personally attest, was in depth. Einstein summed it up higher; ‘Extra the information, lesser the ego. Lesser the information, extra the ego.’”
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