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SoVeryBored2024 t1_j2145oq wrote

Today would have been his 100th birthday.

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MattoSensei t1_j21zxq5 wrote

Correct. I agree being alive must be a prerequisite to having a birthday.

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Shaky_Balance t1_j22indn wrote

People use it both ways. I use it more like you but the other way of still counting up is also very common. Almost everyone agrees the day is still their birthday in a sense, it's just whether people say "their 100th birthday" or just "their birthday" after they have died

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bklynsnow t1_j22n25p wrote

I like the "happy xxth birthday in heaven" method too.

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TinyBean24 t1_j217hsd wrote

Sucks that for us regular people birthdays stop counting once we are dead…but that Jesus guy…

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Just_Cook_It t1_j214jm7 wrote

Happy Birthday old man, in whichever multi-universe you're having fun.. And thank you..

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BlackMoldComics OP t1_j213e0v wrote

Love him or hate him, comics wouldn’t be the same without him. Today is his 100th birthday so I’m posting this to celebrate his legacy and influence on comics

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CheddahFrumundah t1_j22gi4i wrote

Respect. I have a lot of things that'd upset some people to say about his abuse of some of his artists but the simple truth remains that if he wasn't the creative genius with the drive that he was, the medium would probably deader than disco.

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DixonLyrax t1_j239p1w wrote

The Superhero genre perhaps, the medium would have been fine without him.

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CheddahFrumundah t1_j245zjs wrote

Idk man, after what the CCA did to them EC boys, superheroes kinda saved it it seems. That said though grain of salt, my ass wasn't alive and checking newsstands in the late 50s, so if you know better I'll take your word for it.

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DixonLyrax t1_j249um5 wrote

It was a DC book that kicked off the Silver Age of comics with Showcase #4 in 1956. Fantastic Four #1 didn't debut until 1961 and it took more than a decade before Marvel comics sales overtook DC. Stan had given up writing full time by then. For the vast majority of his career at Marvel he essentially functioned as a brand ambassador and pitch man. US comics got stuck in a weird superhero monoculture for a couple of decades. Meanwhile over in France, Japan and Korea there was a full scale mass market comic book revolution that eclipses the US industry in scale by an order of magnitude. Stan was important for sure , but his greatest production was himself.

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Ok_Situation1171 t1_j21fjv1 wrote

Stopped getting visibly older in 1987, impressive

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bichslap3 t1_j213mts wrote

RIP to the comic king!

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MulciberTenebras t1_j220i1p wrote

Jack Kirby was the comic king.

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ElectricPeterTork t1_j22apze wrote

Yes, it was Stan The Man and Jack "King" Kirby.

Also, Jazzy John Romita, Big John Buscema, Roy "The Boy" Thomas, and Vince "Eraser" Colettta.

Well, not that last one, but if you've ever seen the befores and afters of pages he inked, you'll get it.

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DixonLyrax t1_j23a919 wrote

Coletta gets a bad rap for just doing the job that needed doing. He himself was a really accomplished inker, he taught Dick Giordano, but when other people didn't hit their deadlines , Colletta could get the book back on schedule. Often he had insanely short turnaround times. Corners were cut, quality was secondary, but the job got done. The Editors were happy. The Publisher was happy. Vinnie had a long and successful career as a fixer.

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