It's funny because when Stan Lee came up with Magneto, he didn't have any backstory aside from "Mwah ha ha, I am the founder of The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, I hate humans and will enslave all of them because I am the master of magnetism. Now I will use magnetic waves to set this bank on fire!"
Which, when he said that he envisioned him as a Malcolm X figure, really lets you know a few things
I very much doubt he actually thought of him as a Malcolm X type at the time of his creation. Plus Jack Kirby probably did most of the work creating Magneto anyway. Plus X-Men was a third-string comic until Chris Claremont started writing it.
It's funny because when Stan Lee came up with Magneto, he didn't have any backstory aside from "Mwah ha ha, I am the founder of The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, I hate humans and will enslave all of them because I am the master of magnetism. Now I will use magnetic waves to set this bank on fire!"
Which, when he said that he envisioned him as a Malcolm X figure, really lets you know a few things
I very much doubt he actually thought of him as a Malcolm X type at the time of his creation. Plus Jack Kirby probably did most of the work creating Magneto anyway. Plus X-Men was a third-string comic until Chris Claremont started writing it.
Exactly
So either Stan Lee thought Malcolm X was some sort of black supremacist supervillain or he's stealing credit from Claremont
He was an absolute shitheel