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Stan wrote a full plot for Jack, for FF 1. It's been published several times. The X-Men began as Stan's idea.

So how would it be "right" to put KIrby's name first?

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Yet, people have still questioned its authenticity, or speculated that Stan wrote it up after having a long chat with Kirby (in other words, that he basically just transcribed what he and Kirby had already discussed).

Some people will go to maddening lengths to make the facts fit their preferred vision of the truth!

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Maddening and idiotic! T'was Rascally Roger Stern who found that plot in the back of a drawer when he was issued a desk that used to be Stan's. Do we really imagine that Stan had foresight enough to type up a "plot" and hide it in his desk in the hopes that a decade or more hence a new editor would find it?

Was Stan also on the grassy knoll?

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No disrespect to Kirby intended, but I have a feeling that if he'd scripted all those books instead of Stan, we wouldn't be here talking about this, today. Even when Kirby and Ditko were doing full plots on their own, Stan's influence as an editor and scripter could still be felt (sometimes for the better, sometimes not).

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As I have often said, all anyone has to do to see what Stan brought to the table is look at the pictures, then look at what Stan wrote. In many instances, he wrote against the art, and made a better story than what Jack had turned in.