Kurtzman and Elder

What emotion is RDJ conveying here? And my point was for many of those FF and Thor books, and especially on Spider-Man, the stories were done before Lee saw them. Lee was the scripter more than the writer. As Evanier is to Aragones.

Every aspect of Superman was lifted from somewhere else. That's not to say that they weren't combined in an original way, or that Superman wasn't a tremendous success, but the elements were already in place. The technology was already in place. The means of distribution were already in place. The biggest hurdle Siegel and Shuster faced was trying to sell the idea to publishers, who hadn't quite cottoned onto the idea of selling comics to kids. Some publisher, at some point, would have latched onto that idea, and I don't think the concept of a superhero was such an original idea that another art team couldn't have thought of it. Would it have been as successful as Superman? Who knows. I'm not entirely sure that Superman was the most recognized fictional character in the world in 1941. How far did the distribution of comics, radio shows and animated shorts reach in 1941? I suspect the most recognized fictional character in the world in 1941 was from a novel not a comic book. Comics would have existed in some form or another without Siegel and Shuster, a superhero character would have likely been created at some point, the Golden Age superhero boom eventually died out, as most genres do, and the Silver Age creators would every bit as important in making the genre a lasting fixture. Not to mention all the other creators who came along and revitalized superhero comics when they were flagging. I don't think it's fair to say the conversation of greatest writer and artist team begins and ends with Siegel and Shuster.