His process was to quickly determine a plot with the artist - who would then create artwork to develop the story. Stan would then add dialogue.
Basically correct, except that many of the artists supplied the dialogue too, and Stan sometimes ruthlessly changed the Dialogue. This I believe was the source of much animosity.
He introduced comic book readers to the idea of flawed superheroes - a revolutionary concept at the time.
Not exactly. Superman, restricted by his training and upbringing as Clark Kent, is arguably an earlier template for a flawed superhero.
Stan I have come to admire tho also being able to see his faults. He was the ultimate magpie and he had an uncanny gift for choosing and reading his audience, marketing the work, creating sympathetic characters and choosing the best creative artists and creators he could. And he had a photographic memory for Golden Age characters and concepts that were out of copyright. [Daredevil, Wonderman, Black Widow and we could go on] Yes, he instinctively made his heroes Human, so Spiderman, Daredevil, Tony Stark, Thor [originally]. the Hulk [and we could go on] were originally all human flawed people as well as heroes.
But Steve Rogers was 4F before he became Captain America long before this. Stan instinctively saw the point and used it. Which is not to say this idea didn't owe something to Kirby or Ditko.
And Marvel did eventually [I think] pioneer the principle of crediting the creators on the splash page.
I've heard that J Jonah Jamison was Ditko's version of Stan Lee. Possible I suppose.
The problem was, Don wrote FULL SCRIPT with page layouts.
So,if Roy was his editor, he was presumably OK with this?
Only decades later did he learn to his utter dismay, that "editorial" (read: ROY) held him and his previous writing IN CONTEMPT. Don was given the assignment with the idea that he'd fall flat on his face, and then Roy could say, "Oh, well, we gave you your chance and you blew it." But instead, Don started getting more FAN LETTERS from readers than all the other Marvels combined. Which must have really annoyed Roy.
Sounds to me quite unlikely that you would run a business by hiring somebody to do a job that you expected to fail. This would have reflected badly on Roy too.
I don't know who told Don that, but they weren't doing him any favors. It may not have been exactly true.
Clearly tho, there was some friction between Don and Roy. In all cases like this I reserve judgment until I have heard from both sides.
From my own perspective, I had no problems with Don's intended narrative direction. But I found those comics hard to read, just too wordy and abstract. To me a good comic is one where the Art and the storytelling are balanced, work together, and with Don's early writing, that didn't work for me.
In other words, it was a rebuttal of everything Roy Thomas had done with BLACK PANTHER.
My feeling about Roy's early work for Marvel was that, as the first of the new generation of writers he was desperately imitating Stan to gain his approval. It's possible that that early direction on Black Panther was directed by Stan. Positioning the character in New York and making him a teacher sounds like Stan.
It's pretty clear that Kirby wouldn't have been too happy about it either. Another reason for Jack's discontent and disillusionment with Marvel.
This is clearly NOT the story told in that movie.
No, but surely McGregor can be proud of the fact that his narrative vision had such a strong influence in the film's version of the Black Panther.
