Submitted by BlackMoldComics t3_zxmivz in OldSchoolCool
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bichslap3 t1_j213mts wrote
RIP to the comic king!
SoVeryBored2024 t1_j2145oq wrote
Today would have been his 100th birthday.
Just_Cook_It t1_j214jm7 wrote
Happy Birthday old man, in whichever multi-universe you're having fun.. And thank you..
TinyBean24 t1_j217hsd wrote
Sucks that for us regular people birthdays stop counting once we are dead…but that Jesus guy…
Ok_Situation1171 t1_j21fjv1 wrote
Stopped getting visibly older in 1987, impressive
Fiery_Hand t1_j21frzr wrote
He resurrected, counts as alive. Or at least undead.
28carslater t1_j21g8qb wrote
This summer, forgiveness stops... Jesus II: Undeadly Sins.
MattoSensei t1_j21zxq5 wrote
Correct. I agree being alive must be a prerequisite to having a birthday.
MulciberTenebras t1_j220i1p wrote
Jack Kirby was the comic king.
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.
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.
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
bklynsnow t1_j22n25p wrote
I like the "happy xxth birthday in heaven" method too.
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zooterlooter t1_j22r5ev wrote
The Best of Us.
LifeSizeDeity00 t1_j238jd0 wrote
Excelsior!!!
DixonLyrax t1_j239p1w wrote
The Superhero genre perhaps, the medium would have been fine without him.
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.
browtfareyoudoing t1_j23sb8w wrote
He was agnostic, Jewish at most. I dont think heaven applied to him lol
browtfareyoudoing t1_j23sdo9 wrote
Rob Schneider is… Jesus H Christ
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.
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.
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