Watch When Available!YouTube: https://youtu.be/VRjuczJtFFMFor over half a century, the relationship between Jack Kirby and Stan Lee that resulted in the creation of the Marvel Silver Age has been one of the most contentious issues in comics scholarship, with economic and legal consequences echoing down to the present day. In this panel, two recent biographers of Stan Lee--
Danny Fingeroth (
A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee) and
Abraham Riesman (
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee) join comics historian/writer
Fred Van Lente (
The Comic-Book History of Comics) and playwright
Crystal Skillman (
King Kirby) to explore pivotal moments in Lee and Kirby's shared history and attempt to shed more light on the complicated dynamic that produced some of the greatest characters in comics--and some of the bitterest recriminations.
Rob Salkowitz (Forbes, Co
mic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture) moderates.
