After Stan and Jack who contributed the best characters to modern Marvelverse?

[Hockstatter]

Ditko and CC for sure.

[Joe Bullseye]

Don't forget Bill Everett. He didn't do a lot but he did two of the biggest. He's the creator of the Sub-Mariner and co-created Daredevil with Stan Lee. Only penciled one issue of Daredevil but it was issue #1 and that is a giant issue!

[nnelg]

Claremont/Byrne Len Wein Stan Lee

[tony ingram]

Chris Claremont, Herb Trimpe, Roy Thomas and Len Wein. Between them, they created both Captain Britain and Wolverine.

[Lars C]

Claremont, Ditko, Byrne and Len Wein, I would say. David Michelinie is probably a dark horse, although I'm personally not a big fan of Venom.

[earl]

Roy Thomas is a pretty bed rock creator of the Marvel Universe, especially with some of the characters he co-created or adapted. He created a bunch of characters that others took over around the time I think he became the EIC. Checked the list, this doesn't include he brought Conan and Star Wars to Marvel and co-created Red Sonja.

Looking it up and off the top of my head...

The Defenders
The Invaders
Iron Fist
Ultron
The Vision (reimaged from the golden age character)
Ghost Rider
Adamantium
Banshee
Killraven
Morbius
Valkyrie
Ms. Marvel
Adam Warlock
Kree-Skrull War
Man-Thing
Satana
Helmut Zemo
Black Knight (Dane Whitman)
Doc Samson



John Romita Sr. deserves a shoutout for designing quite a few characters including the iconic Punisher costume, which I think really sold the character.

[T Hedge Coke]

Roy Thomas, Dave Cockrum, and Mark Gruenwald are ranking pretty high for me without thinking too hard about it.

[bbrx807]

wow, ive only seen one person mention cockrum.

[Chiasm]

Len Wein: Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Jamie Madrox. Claremont may have been the one to primarily develop the first four but Wein created them. Peter David would likewise get the credit for developing Madrox but again Wein created him.

[dupersuper]

Simon, Ditko, Thomas, Claremont, Starlin, Stern, Busiek, Byrne, the Simonsons, Gerber, Gruenwald, Mantlo, Romita, Buscema, Englehart, Miller, Steranko, Wein...

[Brannon]

I'm sensing a pattern here, chronologically. It seems like 1984 was roughly the time when Marvel said " Yep, that's enough. No need to come up with new ideas any longer. We can coast from here on in!" And by golly...they have!

[nosocialize100]

I'm sensing a pattern here, chronologically. It seems like 1984 was roughly the time when Marvel said " Yep, that's enough. No need to come up with new ideas any longer. We can coast from here on in!" And by golly...they have!

I think you're right...except for maybe Deadpool and a character here or there.

[tony ingram]

I'm sensing a pattern here, chronologically. It seems like 1984 was roughly the time when Marvel said " Yep, that's enough. No need to come up with new ideas any longer. We can coast from here on in!" And by golly...they have!

I'd have said about 1988, in fact.