In September 2021, Ditko’s family filed a copyright termination notice with the US courts demanding rights to the characters they say Ditko created be handed to the family by Disney. The families of both Kirby and Ditko – who died a few months before Lee in 2018 – have been calling for more formal recognition for their part in creating the characters, especially now that Marvel is owned by Disney. Are we to assume Lee had a hand in creating every Marvel character?” Are we to assume that it was never the other co-creator that walked into Lee’s office and said, ‘Stan, I have a great idea for a character!’?” Kirby’s son Neal told the Observer: “If you were to look at a list and timeline of Marvel’s characters from 1960 through 1966, the period in which the vast majority of Marvel’s main characters were created, you will see Lee’s name as a co-creator on every character, with the exception of the Silver Surfer, solely created by my father. Last week, after the release of the documentary, the family of Kirby, who died in 1994, said Lee had “the fortunate circumstance to have access to the corporate megaphone and media” and made himself “the voice of Marvel” – overshadowing the parts other people played. In a row that began before Lee died, his chief artistic collaborators, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, always claimed they had far more of a hand in the comics than the illustrations they were credited for. Photograph: Marvel Studios/Allstarīut a new Disney+ documentary, Stan Lee, which uses archive footage and sound interviews to tell the story of Lee and Marvel’s meteoric rise, has reignited the anger of those who feel they have been written out of the story. Marvel’s stable of superheroes includes the Hulk.
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