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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Apr 2018

      1. This @aoscott review of Infinity Wars is as -- as one would expect -- super smart & wickedly funny. It also got me thinking about how Jack Kirby grew alienated from the Marvel Universe: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/movies/avengers-infinity-war-review.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Apr 2018

      2. The Marvel Universe was a haphazard & bottom up creation of three men: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko & Stan Lee.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Apr 2018

      3. As I've argued many times, Jack Kirby was the major creative impetus for Marvel's explosion of worldbuilding in 1960s. But I do think Stan Lee (as editor & promoter) had more to do with wielding disparate creations into a universe.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Apr 2018

      4. Kirby worked in a variety of genres (science fiction, war, superhero, mythology, romance). It was Lee as editor who pushed for having characters in different comics show up in each others book, in the spirit of cameos.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Apr 2018

      5. The early Marvel world building really was just crass sales crossovers. Take popular character from one book & have him or her meet/fight/support character from another. As here:pic.twitter.com/wtH2UCRJmm

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Apr 2018

      6. It was really the epigonic younger writers after Kirby/Lee/Ditko who decided to take this ad hoc universe & give it rules & continuity, done in the fannish spirit of people who write biographies of Sherlock Holmes.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Apr 2018

      7. The Marvel Universe, in other words, was a work of fan fiction. It was fans-turned-writers who decided they liked cohesiveness, continuity, and putting all the characters into big epic battles (key figures here Roy Thomas, Mark Gruenwald & Jim Shooter)

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    8. Jesse Walker‏ @notjessewalker 24 Apr 2018
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      I think this is a common dynamic in fictional universes that pass into a second generation's hands. Lovecraft created Cthulhu; Derleth devised a systematic mythos.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Apr 2018
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      Yep, the 2nd generation are always epigones.

      8:29 PM - 24 Apr 2018
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        1. Jesse Walker‏ @notjessewalker 24 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          And then the third generation always has some postmodernists who want to blow up the master narrative.

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