@jleo

All other the news, sadly.

Guy actually made so much of crap for poor children's and more grown people minds.

Guys had been good servant of ruling class and produced just the product they asked to dump people down.

Alternative looks at the Marvel Universe:

Another long-held tenet of mine is that true creativity is like a mushroom- it flourishes in damp, dark corners that are usually unsuited to more ordinary endeavors.

Pop culture exists under a relentless Klieg light these days, and those mycological resonators often wilt under the glare. Creators such as Philip K. Dick and H.P. Lovecraft were able to flourish creatively because they had just enough of a readership to keep their work going but were also granted the luxury of relative obscurity.

And so it was with Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. Marvel (then called Atlas) was a spent force in the comics business in the mid 50s and paid some of the lowest rates in town. As great a packager and salesman of ideas Stan Lee was, he didn't have much to sell or package. And his boss Martin Goodman wanted it that way.

The artists didn't necessarily end up at Stan's door out of choice. Ditko was a young artist whose work was too ugly and weird for the big publishers and Kirby was a vet who had trouble getting work elsewhere, partly because he was seen as a has-been with an out of date style and partly because of conflicts with his editors.

Stan wisely gave Kirby and Ditko carte blanche and allowed their fertile imaginations to run riot. In return they gave him an army of characters to take straight to the bank.

https://secretsun.blogspot.com/search?q=stan+lee&updated-max=2012-04-13T19:22:00-04:00&max-results=20&start=4&by-date=false

The superhero fantasy, in which a single person with enormous power takes on responsibility for all us weak mortals and fixes everything, is also a fantasy of fascist authoritarianism.

Western leftists are so funny. :-)

No, it is just simple dream of small man in capitalism. Pinnacle of idealism as foundation.

Or, you know, some people just like to draw fantasy characters and give them crazy stories and abilities. Everything must be rooted to reality in some way, so of course you will see reference to real conflicts or historical events.

Some people certainly like to draw fantasy characters, but until ruling class needs it - they remain his local family or circle stuff. And characters made by this guy are certainly being used to dump people down.

In Neanderthal cave paintings, stone carvings of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece , Rome, China, stories unfold like comic books. In the histories of nations, the founding fathers of the United States, Russia, China etc leaders are often depicted like superheroes against insurmountable odds and villains.

Filmmakers like Spielberg were influenced by comic books, but many comic book artists were influenced by filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and the Theory of Montage:

http://www.epicboy.com/?p=629

Sergei Eisenstein drawing . Beginning of The Trojan War

Ironically, Marvel Studios movies may have destroyed movie storytelling:

In his 2012 book, Do the Movies Have a Future?, New Yorker Magazine film critic David Denby argues that Hollywood’s many comic book adaptations are damaging the aesthetic value of film form. He maintains that in comic books “one thing happens after another, space collapses, gravity and the ground disappear, clashing forces jump at each other” (14) and films with these tendencies diminish the qualities that had made cinema an essential art form of the 20th century. He claims that the humanistic storytelling of the pre-digitalized comic book film, which required “limits, inhibitions, social conventions, a world of anticipations and outcomes, fears and consequences,” has since been victimized by the narrative tendencies of comics that drop “the preparations and the consequences of carefully worked-out plots” (67). For Denby, this visual culture of impossible imagery, with all of its digitally produced explosions and fantastical elements, oversaturates the representation of reality and results in a frustratingly simplistic cinema

https://qc-writers.com/2013/10/31/inquiry-comics-and-montage-theory/

Stan Lee, the huckster/maestro who co-created the Marvel Universe with Jack Kirby, likes to say that what Marvel sold was “the illusion of change.” That’s to say, the comic books offered serialized stories where it looked like the characters were going through life-changing crises every month but somehow always reverted to the same spot. I’ve always been dissatisfied with “the illusion of change” because it robbed the stories of the finality of traditional narratives: the finality that comes with making irrevocable changes that lead to love or death.

https://newrepublic.com/article/148198/marvel-killing-movies