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Lee's supporters have creative memories
Patrick Ford
28 August 2016
In ALTER-EGO magazine # 35 John Romita is interviewed in depth concerning the short lived 1954 Captain America revival. Throughout the interview Romita gushes about Stan Lee's involvement on the title and when asked if Lee wrote the stories Romita answers, "Stan wrote them all. I remember seeing his name on the scripts."
The trouble with that is Lee did not write any of those stories. Lee himself has no recollection of writing them. No comics scholar believes Lee wrote them. Lee did not sign them. And in the same issue Lee says, "I always signed my name on strips I had written."
Patrick Ford: BTW. Lee's involvement with the Captain America character was minimal during the Golden Age. Lee wrote a few text pieces. The eight stories in issues 11-19 after S&K were fired. And then nothing until the '60s. After Oct. of 1942 Lee didn't write any Captain America stories.
Patrick Ford: So who was writing CAPTAIN AMERICA from 1941 to 1954 (issues 10-78) ? It was frequently Otto Binder.
Michael Hill: Romita was rehearsing for his deposition.
Patrick Ford: It's unlikely Lee had anything to do with the '50s Captain America. I seriously doubt he was even the editor. Timely was publishing dozens of books every month and there were several editors on the staff. Since Lee gave every indication of having no interest or involvement in super heroes after the war it's more likely than not that someone other than Lee edited the super hero titles from 1943-1954.
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