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Lee could not create a good story on his own
[Editor's note: this is about DC's "Just Imagine" series where Lee wrote Superman and Batman stories.]
16 March 2017
(a thread that began on the topic of clickhole fake news)
Lynn David Walker: I only read a few issues of DC's Lee series, and it's been a while, but IIRC his Superman was based on Silver Surfer #1 and his Green Lantern was based on Thor.
Patrick Ford: I purchased the one by John Buscema and the one by Joe Kubert. They were both unreadable.
Tim Bateman: You cannot fault Lee for a lack of consistency.
Patrick Ford: Can I fault him for being consistently awful?
Chris Tolworthy: I read as many reviews as I could. Obviously reviews are subjective: some liked it (nobody really loved it), and other share your view. E.g.
"Reading these, someone unfamiliar with Lee's 1960s/early 1970s Marvel work might well wonder why he is remembered as Stan The Man."
and
"Stan has done excellent work. But this series doesn't remind me of it. Nor does it seem like the Return of the King of Comics."
The only objective test I could find was when CBR asked readers to rank the three series that combine Marvel and DC: "Just Imagine", "Amalgam" and "Tangent". Stan's work came out bottom.
http://community.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?30826-BEST-Amalgam-Just-Imagine-Stan-Lee-s-Dc-Tangent= [link broken?]
Patrick Ford: What I have found is even those people who are fans of Lee's work have come to praise it only in the context of its time. They will say it hasn't aged well, but that compared to the typical super hero comic book from the '60s (John Broome, Gardner Fox, Edmond Hamilton, etc.) Lee's writing stood out. Well, I'd agree it stood out. Just not in the way they think it did.
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