REVIEW: This Disney+ look at Stan Lee, the man behind 'Spider-Man,' the 'X-Men' and the Avengers, is far from the definitive doc on Marvel's founding father.
) to cars , knows how to move folks down memory lanes as briskly as possible, with stock tinkling pianos underscoring all of the emotional moments. By the time we get to the Marvel years, when Lee’s boss asks him for a super-group to match their DC rival’s Justice League and he dreams up a bickering quartet with fantastic new powers, the self-mythologizing begins in earnest.
Who’s responsible for what in regard to the company’s stable of superheroes remains a hotly contested topic among comic-industry types and card-carrying Merry Marvel Marching Society members, and this doc isn’t the least bit interested in relitigating the argument. Lee himself brings up Ditko’s disagreements with the direction of the books he drew, yet seems puzzled that the artist wasn’t satisfied with a tiny thrown-bone of credit and downright bewildered that Smilin’ Steve flew the coop.
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