An Honest War

June, 2014

April's Playboy Interview delighted me by uniting two American icons, Stan Lee and pijvyboy. But it irks me that although Lee gained fame for creating Hulk, the X-Men and other characters, it is the movie executives who get to swim in their Scrooge McDuck money bins, thanks to Marvel's House of Ideas. Mean­while, the folks responsible for these creations—especially Lee's cohorts, including artists Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby—are relegated to the shadows. At least Kirby is accus­tomed to being rip...