A good video about The earliest 1930's beginnings of Marvel Comics under Martin Goodman, and how Stan Lee started working there in 1939. And more so about how Stan Lee began as an understudy of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, then took over when they were fired.
Simon and Kirby's departure from Marvel to DC was a bit more involved than I thought. They were secretly working for DC in advance. I thought they quit and went to DC, but in fact they were fired because they were already producing more for DC. And Kirby's later hostility toward Stan Lee is because he thought Lee was the one who finked on him to Goodman and got Kirby fired. That explains a lot about the hostility Kirby had for Lee in the 1960's era. It came from previous untrustworthiness on Lee's part, from Kirby's POV. Swiping all the credit and changing characters that Kirby created in directions Kirby didn't want them to go didn't help.
But this video covers a lot of often-neglected territory from 1942-1961 where Stan Lee was in charge at Marvel and steered the ship through the lean years, that made Lee a grandmaster after FANTASTIC FOUR # 1 and the rest of the Marvel pantheon emerged after 1961. Some pretty enlightening behind-the-scenes.
