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minus-squareHarryLime [any]hexbear18·8 months agoI 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. link
minus-squareFlakesBongler [they/them]hexbear18·8 months agoExactly 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 link
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