Stan Lee’s Mutants, Monsters and Marvels – dvd 480

OK, I promise that today’s disc is definitely the last one I’ll be looking at. Unless another box turns up, which it might do because there are still gaps in my numbering.

Today’s programme is Stan Lee’s Mutants, Monsters and Marvels. It’s recorded from one of the Sky movie channels, and it’s a documentary which is mostly an interview with Stan Lee, Editor In Chief of Marvel Comics through the Silver Age of superhero comics, co-creator of many of the great characters, and, frankly, a significant influence on my childhood.

I get the feeling this is cobbled together from another source, as it’s divided into parts called ‘Feature 1’ etc. It sounds like bonus material from a DVD.

He’s being interviewed by filmmaker Kevin Smith, a huge Comic Book fan.

It’s interesting that Smith brings up the issue of who is the creator of a comic character, and Lee is pretty honest here that he feels that the person who comes up with the idea is the creator (as he did for Spider-Man) but he says, of Ditko, Kirby and the other artists, “I have enough respect for Steve and for the other artists that I am very happy and very comfortable to call myself the Co creator of all of these things”.