Stan Lee spills the beans about what Jack Kirby was "really" like when he has Millie the Model meet his star artist in "A Monster for Millie." Here are few "facts" about Jack Kirby according to Stan Lee:
1) He uses models when he draws women.
2) His studio has a sign that reads simply "Jack Kirby Artist."
3) He has two giant plaster models of monsters in his studio.
4) Tools of choice for the fastest penciler in comics: paints and brushes
5) He reads poetry.
6) Not only does he wear a bow-tie when he draws but. . .
From Millie the Model #107 (March 1962). Art is, I think, by Stan Goldberg.
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Great! I had never seen this story. But Kirby's tales of Stan Lee are far more damagaing to Lee. (See the "Funky Flashman" character in Mr. Miracle!)
Things were presumably sunnier between the two men in 1962.
I interviewed Stan Lee four or five times for newspapers and David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview, and he never expressed anything but praise for Kirby — even after Kirby starting hitting him pretty hard,
I don't think I've heard Stan Lee utter a cross word about Jack Kirby either (the Millie story appeared to done in the spirit of fun). However, due to position, personality, etc. Stan Lee always came off as the sharpest, shiniest object in the room and Jack Kirby didn't. Stan Lee got his just rewards in this life and Jack Kirby didn't. You'd have to be a pretty saintly guy to let that completely roll off your back. If Stan Lee was Marvel and Marvel wasn't giving Jack Kirby his due then I can see how Lee (maybe unfairly) became a target of Kirby's ire.
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