![]() The format is such an important part of the Marvel’s legacy that creators are still paid for writing a comic in two parts, half for the issue’s plot and half for its dialogue. To put it even more succinctly, the writer delivers the plot, the artist handles the story, and the writer adds the wordsīy the 2000s, Marvel Style fell out of fashion, but its legacy continues to reverberate in comics today. Upon receiving the finished art, the writer adds captions and dialogue to complete the process. A barebones explanation of Marvel Style is that a writer shares a synopsis of a comic with the artist, who is then responsible for expanding that plot into a fully drawn comic book. Marvel Style, sometimes referred to as plot script, is hard to define precisely because, as this piece will dig into, the Marvel method has varied dramatically depending on the time period and creative team. Soon enough, he wrote all his comics in the method that became known as the Marvel Style of Storytelling. Stan Lee imitated his process with Kirby while working with Steve Ditko. While making largely forgotten 1950s monster comics (Groot’s first appearance notwithstanding), Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stumbled onto a method of collaboration that would go on to define the publisher’s next decade and beyond. ![]() Changes came fast and furious, and creators had to adapt to constant changes in the industry. ![]() ![]() Early in the history of comics, creators and publishers were still learning how to make comics on the fly. ![]()
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