Have you ever met Stan Lee or Jack Kirby?

I've sort of met Stan Lee. Not really, but I did get my picture taken with him once. It was the first St Louis Comic Con and Stan Lee was there. read more

I Met Stan Lee at the Chicago comic convention in the early 90's. And by met I mean they introduced him and he talked for a minute and then he signed some books. So I've never shaken his hand or have him day my name personally, but back in those days, the conventions looked like flea markets and people could brush up on everybody or even speak to anybody without a problem. read more

By the 1950's, it was called Atlas Comics. It was in this era that he would meet one of the most controversial figures in his life- a young, lanky Jewish kid named Stanley Leiber. You probably know him as Stan Lee. At this point, OP, I really can't say how Kirby and Jack felt about each other. read more

Both diligently sought -- or gracelessly accepted -- all the credit for creating the characters that saved Marvel's skin in 1961. This paternity case shouldn't require a blood test: Jack Kirby provided the characters' divinity, Stan Lee their humanity. When Kirby and Lee first met at Timely in 1940, they didn't meet as equals. read more