Please do not interpret this post as taking away the legal or moral right of a creator. I just want to point out an interesting 'conundrum'.
I always wanted a 'Developed by' credit next to 'Written by' and 'Drawn by'. For example, Lee and Kirby created the Hulk and it failed in six issues. Steve Ditko takes over when the strip is revived in Tales To Astonish and introduces the anger management problem that made the character unique and iconic. He also added new characters that were important to the strip. We would never, ever add his name to the 'creators' and I am not suggesting that. I thought of this with the Captain Marvel movie.
Lee and Colan created the Walter Lawson-Captain Marvel in Marvel Super Heroes #12.
Roy Thomas introduced Carol Danvers in issue #13.
Roy and Gil Kane zap Danvers with powers (which we don’t see her get) in Captain Marvel #18.
Danvers gets her uniform and powers in Ms. Marvel #1, by Gerry & Carla Conway and John Buscema. The costume was designed by John Romita.
And she becomes Captain Marvel in 2015 written by Kelly Sue DeConnick with art by Dexter Soy.
The credits at the end of the movie may be as long as the movie itself!!!
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Kid, I just saw an ad for the movie. It features the Skrulls, created by Lee and Kirby Fantastic Four #2. They also created the Kree in FF #64. Of course I was created by Lee and Kirby in FF#1!!😃
Seriously, isn’t it amazing how many people are responsible for one character, or one story.
Sure is, Barry, but never mind that. YOU were created by Lee & Kirby? So which one was mummy and which one was daddy? (The world needs to know.)
It was more like Frankenstein, they used spare parts from other creations.
Only the very highest quality spare parts I'm sure. And not a criminal brain (unlike in the 1931 movie).
Marvel's KILLRAVEN was another example of a "spare parts" creation. Although fans were most vocal about the run by McGregor and Russell, what they did was built on assorted tropes established-- admittedly not always done that well-- by Adams, Chaykin, Wolfman and Trimpe.
The strip was reprinted in the UK Planet of the Apes weekly comic, GP, but the baddies were changed to apes and Killraven was renamed Apeslayer. Strange, eh?
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