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Posted: 03 December 2019 at 6:42am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

...possible exception...

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There are no “possible exception(s)”. If something already exists, one cannot subsequently be part of its creation. That creation is in the Past, done, finished. Anything added is extrapolation.

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As much as the US Supreme Court has creatively interpreted the Constitution over hundreds of years, often radically changing or even adding to its original meaning in incredibly influential ways, no Justice of the Court could be said to have created it.
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Honestly, I can't think of any other possible exception besides Daredevil. Wood and Miller fundamentally changed the character's foundations, and that certainly deserves permanent mention.

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Okay, but...

Wolverine's costume has been re-designed numerous times by people such as JB, Jim Lee and Marc Silvestri. Does that mean they created?

I like Miller's run yet he picked a lot existing Marvel lore and characters for it. The Kingpin and The Punisher from Spider-Man. Bullseye was already there and Miller made him more than just a Flash-like villain with a gimmick.

I'd say Roger McKenzie began the trend of stripping DD down more to street level type stories.
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Roger Stern gets credit and royalties for his "creation" of Hobgoblin, which has long struck me as a bit odd. Taking an existing character's schtick and applying it to someone else seems something less than an act of "creation" to me.

Ironically, when we were working together on LOST GENERATION, Rog dredged up a character who had appeared in only one story in the 1940s and grafted his origin onto one of my characters--which meant that, technically, I could no longer say I had "created" the character. He'd been transformed into something pre-existing.

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Roger Stern gets credit and royalties for his "creation" of Hobgoblin, which has long struck me as a bit odd. Taking an existing character's schtick and applying it to someone else seems something less than an act of "creation" to me. ========================================================

I wasn't aware of that. Even Roger has said in interviews he was basically riffing on the Green Goblin without tying the Hobgoblin back to the other versions. It was a way to bring the Goblin-themed villain back without bringing back Norman or making Harry don the costume again.

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Yes, Rog didn't put together Hobgoblin with any intent to claim "creation". That was Marvel's doing.

Which was itself odd, given how stingy they used to be about apportioning creation credits. Lawyers too a'feared that might imply ownership.

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Yes, Rog didn't put together Hobgoblin with any intent to claim "creation".

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More like he wanted to tell a good Spider-Man story being his intention.
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Imagine Tom King being credited as the co-creator of Mister Miracle. Or the Vision.
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In a semi-amusing way, this discussion reminds me of times, over the years, when I have said I did not create Wolverine, but he IS my fault!
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Hm. So, Chris Evans, who has played a key member of two Marvel teams created by Stan Lee, still hasn't portrayed a character created by Stan Lee.

Nor has Chris Hemsworth, for that matter.  
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I blame the Image boys, btw, for turning "create" into an active verb and confusing the issue. I recall one of their stunts was to swap books, and the ads ran something like "This month Todd McFarlane will not create SPAWN..."

Even setting aside the minimal actual "creation" that occurred in SPAWN, it still happened just that once, and if Lee or Larsen or Liefeld did an issue, it would be as a "guest artist", not a "creator".

Mind you, a lot of familiar terms from the Sixties and Seventies got screwed up in the Eighties. Guest appearances started to be called "crossovers". Anything with super powers was a "mutant". And, of course, "graphic novel" came to be applied to any crap that happened to be square-bound. No wonder "create" also took a hit.

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Hm. So, Chris Evans, who has played a key member of two Marvel teams created by Stan Lee, still hasn't portrayed a character created by Stan Lee.

Nor has Chris Hemsworth, for that matter.

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Mythology compounds the confusion. Did Stan and Jack "create" Thor? Of course not. There have been many version of Thor over the centuries (which is one reason I was able to use a character by that name in JK4W). Stan and Jack stitched together their own version of the character, and that version was, at first, very different from the traditional mythology. Altho not, it should be noted, terribly different from a version that appeared in BATMAN 127!

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