I think Stan Lee's creative contributions to Spiderman in addition to other legendary Marvel characters, has often been over-stated, leading to the man developing an over-inflated reputation in the comic book industry which Lee has done nothing but encourage. Alan Moore talked about this a while ago, even offering his perspective on the Jonathan Ross interview I quoted earlier. According to a variety of counter-sources, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko were far more involved closely in the creation of Spiderman than Stan himself, who initially contributed little else than coming up with the name of Spiderman and wanting him to be a teenage superhero. Regardless of whether those are even true however (there are a lot of contradictory claims around that time), I certainly don't feel that knowing what we know for definite, Stan Lee has the right to insist he was the MAIN creator of the Spiderman, or to even act with such reluctance when publically crediting Ditko as the Co-Creator, which Ditko absolutely was. It doesn't quite mirror the Bob Kane/Bill Finger situation, but for me personally, it does seem to share a handful of uncomfortable parallels.
It's wicked you get to work on comics by the way, man. Have you worked on any titles I might have heard of? Regardless, that sounds very cool.
Artisan?
Let it go.
