PETALING JAYA: To create a great story, an author would need to put in hard work and research to come out with the storyline, the characters' origins, their motivations and the kind of conflict they would face to make readers eager to read more from the book or any form of entertainment. But what if little thought or work is done to create a bunch of characters? Like a group of comic superheroes - the X-Men? Is it true that the X-Men origin is created out of laziness? Verdict True Odd enough, it is true. That was how comic book writers Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby came out with the conception of these mutants back in 1963.
But before touching on X-Men, we have to go back almost two decades earlier - when both Lee and Kirby started with the first Captain America comic in 1941. Lee would then go on to create other Marvel Comics characters, like The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Thor, the Hulk and Iron Man with other collaborators like Kirby, Larry Lieber, Don Heck and Steve Ditko in years to come. These comic characters have an interesting background that turned them from regular human beings into extraordinary ones.
Spider-Man came about when Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider; The Fantastic Four were exposed to cosmic radiation during their space travel, giving each of them unique abilities; and the Hulk came about when Dr Bruce Banner was exposed to large gamma radiation from a gamma bomb detonation. But when it came to creating the X-Men for Marvel Comics, Lee .
