Marvel Mount Rushmore

[midnightshrink]

If you were to make a mount Rushmore of Marvel creators who would be in it? It does not have to limit to 4 guys but definitely no more than 10.

I would say Stan Lee and Kirby have to be up there. As does Chris Claremont and John Romita SR (Ditko didn't do it enough). As well as Roger Stern, Jim Shooter and Mark Gruenwald. But who else in your opinion is deserving of Marvel Mount Rushmore?

[CJStriker]

I would Put Creators and an Artist as well!

Stan Lee
Jack Kirby
Artist - George Perez

[bobbyhamilton]

Definitely Kirby, Lee, and Gruenwald...fastforward into the future and I'd say Hickman.

[Sentenal]

The two who created Marvel Stan Lee and Jack Kirby is a must, as far as my Mount Rushmore I would place John Byrne for his work on not only the Fantastic Four but the X-Men as well, Chris Claremont for his great work on the X-Men, and George Perez another great artist of the era for his work on Avengers (And Teen Titans). I know there are more, but these men have had more of an impact in my collecting than any other creator out there.

[PwrdOff]

I think artists should be given credit over the writers for making Marvel what it is today. Comic book stories would never be entertaining adapted as novels, the art is what makes them stand out and what burns those iconic characters, settings, and stories into our brains. Art is what keeps us going back to the stores week after week to empty our wallets on a massive stack of comics that we can then bitch about nonstop on CBR. Sure Claremont may have written the X-Men for fifty bajillion years, but it was really guys like Cockrum and Byrne who defined the look and feel of the franchise and gave it its distinctive flair.

Just ask yourself this question. If someone told your mother that they "made comic books" for a living, what would she assume their contribution was?

[FanboyStranger]

Kirby, Ditko, Lee, Roy Thomas, and Chris Claremont. My reason for including Roy is that he was the man to really cement the idea of Marvel as a shared universe with shared continuity, for better or for worse. Claremont I'd include for his impact on the changing face of comics in the late '70s, early '80s, creating an empire with the X-franchise, and in general, changing the approach to team books across comics for a good twenty years.

[Wellman]

Kirby, Ditko, Lee, Roy Thomas, and Chris Claremont. My reason for including Roy is that he was the man to really cement the idea of Marvel as a shared universe with shared continuity, for better or for worse. Claremont I'd include for his impact on the changing face of comics in the late '70s, early '80s, creating an empire with the X-franchise, and in general, changing the approach to team books across comics for a good twenty years.

This, Thomas has had a massive impact on the creation of a lot of Marvel's more underrated properties.

[victor_lanza]

Lee, Kirby, Thomas, Buscema, Gene Colan!

[Darrell D.]

Kirby, Lee and Stan.
Kirby's part of the monument would have to the biggest, though.

[XPac]

I'd probably just go Kirby, Lee, and Ditko. They're sort of the founding fathers.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby and Chris Claremont.

If limited to 4 people they are really who shaped Marvel's properties the most.