Stan Lee - The Silver Surfer: my philosophical outlet (19/42)

To listen to more of Stan Lee’s stories, go to the playlist: The creative genius of US writer Stan Lee (1922-2018) generated ’Spider Man’, ’X-Men’, ’The Hulk’ and other complex characters. Marvel Comics with Lee at the helm became hugely successful. In January 2011, Lee received the 2428th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [Listener: Leo Bear; date recorded: 2006]. TRANSCRIPT: The… the other character that I liked was called The Silver Surfer. I worked with an artist who was the greatest, named Jack Kirby. I don’t think my stories would have looked as good if Jack hadn’t done some of them ’cause he… he was brilliant. In fact, all the artists were brilliant. There was John Romita and Steve Ditko and John Buscema. I… I was the luckiest guy alive ’cause… I think I could have done a mediocre story, they made them look as though the stories were great ’cause they were so beautiful