THE DARK ORIGINS OF SPIDER-MAN
Sun, Jan 21, 2007
Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee has acknowledged that many of his Marvel creations were in response to the politically charged atmosphere of the sixties. “The thing I had in mind was to make it a story against bigotry of all sorts, because here were people who were certainly different than everybody else, but they were good, they were trying to do the right thing,” says Lee. ”But as so often happens in real life, if you have a different religion, a different country, a different sexual orientation, whatever the difference is, people - not all people, but it happens - are going to dislike you, distrust you, fear you.”
Lee is behind such dynamic comic book figures as The Hulk, Fantastic Four and X-Men - which Professor X and Magneto were inspired greatly by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X respectively.
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