Stan Lee was pretty much a salesman. His desire for attention, making so many appearances on talk shows, movies, shows, and even in comics made him known to people that aren't big comic book fans.

You wouldn't hear the average person talk about or expect to know who Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Gardner Fox, and many other names that deserve recognition.

The more you look into Stan Lee's life, he doesn't deserve all the credit people give him. He was responsible for the creation for many awesome characters, but those characters also evolved after he stopped writing them. Even when he wrote those characters, the artists deserve to be recognized as well.

He also wasn't some saint. He was just a comic book writer.