DC Comics Salutes Stan Lee

The above tribute to the late Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee appears in all DC Comics published this week. I...seem to have something in my eye. Excuse me for a second.

Marvel has also published lovely tributes to Lee in all of its recent comics, of course. One could say that DC kind of had to salute Lee, even though he was a competitor. But this tribute is so simple, so elegant, and (I think) heartfelt that it just touches me on a level I can't quite articulate.

One wonders: if we could go back in time to the '60s-when Marvel was a lower-tier publisher daring to take on the entrenched National Periodical Publications (DC to us), competing and succeeding, and eventually surpassing DC in sales--and tell Stan Lee, and even tell DC's Irwin Donenfield or Mort Weisinger, that some time decades in the future, the Distinguished Competition would publish a full-page acknowledgement of its upstart rival's pain-in-the-ass spokesman.

Donenfield and Weisinger would have thought you were deranged, and they would have called security to escort your keister away from them faster'n a speeding bullet. Lee? Lee would have also thought you were crazy. But he would have laughed, an easy-going chuckle that manifested the responsibility that came with power. Who says this isn't the Marvel Age of Comics?

Face front, caped crusaders and men of steel. And thank you, DC.

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