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Tuesday 10: Updated “Stan the Man”-style Nicknames

Remember way back in the ’70s when — what? You weren’t even born in the Seventies?

…damn, we’re old.

OK, well, back in the ’60s and ’70s, even up into the front half of the ’80s, Marvel overlord Stan Lee would assign nicknames to the creators of most of the comics they were putting out which, we assume, were probably supposed to sound either funny or hip… but really just came across as kind of lame: Stan “The Man” Lee. “Joltin’” Joe Sinnott. “Dauntless” Don McGregor. Jack “King” Kirby. (Okay, we’ll admit that one wasn’t lame at all.)

We decided that’s a tradition which could use some back-bringin’ and updatin’, so we slapped together new Stan-like nicknames for some of today’s creators. And while we’d like these to seem funny or hip, we realize that, like Stan’s, they’re probably just kind of lame.

10. “Mad” Joe Madureira. (Stan took the easy way out sometimes, too.)

9. “Glorious” Grant Morrison.

8. “Marketshare” Mark Millar.

7. “Junior This” John Romita, Jr.

6. “Maximum” Matt Fraction.

5. “Death-Dealin’” Dan DiDio.

4. “Electable” Ed Brubaker.

3. “Goddamn” Frank Miller.

2. Robert “Captain” Kirkman.

1. Warren Ellis. We dare not even try hanging one of these on him. Except maybe “Yessir, Mr. Warren Ellis, Sir.”