So all these characters from the '50s and '60s, both the original ones and the ones that were technically reboots, mostly kept their original creators until around the end of '60s. Though there are exceptions. Hulk co-creator Jack Kirby only did six issues. The series was then cancelled, but Hulk made guest appearances in other series, often by other creators, but eventually the series was brought back with co-creator Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko (who was also doing the plots. Lee basically just did dialogue). Ditko did a lot more Hulk than Kirby ever did.
And that's the other thing. Sometimes guys who aren't the original creators did lots of good stories and contributed a lot to the series that people now consider essential. Kirby's Hulk was very much in development. He wasn't even green in the first issue. He transforms not due to anger, but due to the full moon. His personality is very different. Then the series got cancelled. It was under Steve Ditko that Hulk really turned into what you think of when you think of Hulk.
Steve Ditko is also the co-creator of Spider-Man. Again, Stan Lee basically just did the dialogue, but got credit as "writer," so Ditko got mad, and that seemed to be one of the significant factors to Ditko quitting after only 39 issues. (His last issue was 38, but Spidey first appeared in Amazing Fantasy 15, not Amazing Spider-Man 1, so it was a total of 39 issues.) He notably left on a cliffhanger, with Spidey about to learn The Green Goblin's secret identity. The next writer, John Romita (Sr.. Later his son became a big artist too, but I don't like Jr's work very much), had to guess at who the Goblin was supposed to be. He's the guy who made Norman Osborn into The Green Goblin, and really made the character that you think of. He introduced tons of new and classic characters, and developed more that Ditko technically introduced but were not yet in the forms you think of today. Ditko's Spider-Man is excellent, I'm a huge fan of Ditko in general, but Romita's Spider-Man is arguably even better. His stories are good.
And that's the key. You're just screwing yourself out of enjoying good stories if you're just gonna ignore anything not by the original creators. Since these characters have existed for sometimes 90 years, most of the stories people now love are not by the original creators, since the original creators only did a small fraction of the stories, but many later ones were still good.
I'd like to cite the example of the 2002 Spider-Man movie, by Sam Raimi. It's actually a much more faithful adaptation of the comics than most other superhero movies. It's specifically an adaptation of three stories. Each act is a different story. The first act is essentially Amazing Fantasy 15, Spider-Man's origin. The second act is Amazing Spider-Man 38-39, the story where Spidey and The Green Goblin find each other's identities. Also, remember that 38 and 39 were technically by different artists (who were also doing the plots). Despite that, they're still a great story, and make up a significant portion of the movie. The third act is an adaptation of Amazing Spider-Man 121 and 122, by Jerry Conway.
That story in Amazing Spider-Man 121-122 is called "The Night Gwen Stacy Died," and is one of the most memorable, important, and well loved Spider-Man stories, hence making up the climax of the movie, even though it's not by the original creators. Not only was it not by Ditko, but even Stan Lee had stopped writing by this point. Lee was still "writing" for the John Romita stories, but that pretty much stopped after issue 100 (which was also when Romita stopped doing Spidey). Now, notably Gwen Stacy isn't in the movie, and obviously she's a main character in the comic story. Essentially, Mary Jane in the movie acts like Gwen Stacy, but by the time the movie came out, Mary Jane was well established as Spider-Man's love interest. Though Mary Jane was introduced in Amazing Spider-Man #25, by original Spider-Man creator Steve Ditko, she didn't become Spider-Man's regular love interest until the mid-late '80s, many, many years later, well after Jerry Conway stopped writing. In fact, I don't even remember who wrote the story that finally brought her back as the regular love interest. But the point is, it was yet another guy. And many of the stories that made their relationship memorable would be some other guy. But we all think of Mary Jane as Spidey's love interest, and a very memorable and well loved character. (And yes, it was already like this before the movie came out.) So for the sake of simplicity and for using the character everyone knew and loved, they pretty much just made Gwen Stacy a redhead and called her Mary Jane. Incidentally, when a character called Gwen Stacy does appear in Spider-Man 3, she's a model. That's Mary Jane's job in the comics. They basically swapped these two characters.
Also, you might notice that the story is called "The Night Gwen Stacy Died," but even if MJ fills the role of Gwen, she doesn't die in the movie. But if you read the two issue story and watch the movie, you'll see it's extremely accurate, except she doesn't die. I guess they figured that would be too much for the movie. Maybe they figured it would complicate sequels or whatever. Idk. But it's the biggest change in a movie that otherwise accurately adapts stories and elements from at least four different writers. (Well, two of them were credited as artists, but really they were doing the plots, not Stan Lee.)
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>fourth pic
>Atomica
I love that example. I'm not sure if it was always planned or not, but basically, in 2011, DC did a semi-reboot thing called Flashpoint where history was changed. They used this as an excuse to change some characters, and even without that excuse, sometimes they replace characters with new versions anyway. So after that, we didn't see The Atom anymore, we got a girl version called Atomica. She wasn't a starring character, but she was around. So for all anyone knew, they just did some SJW shit and replaced The Atom with a girl. They already replaced him with a chinese guy a couple years earlier (though at least that time the original was still running around too). But then two years later they did this story where the backwards Justice League from the evil universe shows up, and it turns out Atomica was their spy all along, she was never an actual replacement for The Atom. I don't know if they planned it for almost two years, or if it was someone coming along to fix a stupid mistake of trying to SJWfy The Atom again, but they fixed it.
Also in that era, they replaced the third Flash, Wally West, with a new, black version. It looked like Wally was completely rebooted. Before he was The Flash, he was Kid Flash. Now this new Wally was a kid, and he had his origin story and became Kid Flash. It looked like he was just rebooted and turned black. Then someone (the same guy as with Atomica, actually, Geoff Johns) realized that sucked, Wally West is basically the most well loved character among comics fans, due to his 50 years of history and development (at that point) and how we got to watch him grow up and go from being Kid Flash for 25 years and then be promoted to regular Flash for the next 25 years. So they said the real Wally was just lost in the speed dimension when the second Flash, Barry Allen, caused Flashpoint and changed history, and Flash villain Abra Kadabra erased the world's memories of Wally (and the rest of the original Teen Titans, too), but then Wally came back and made everyone remember him (and the Titans), and black Wally was just Wally's black cousin who happened to also be named Wally. Fine. Fixed. Pretty much.
Then later I heard some fag tried to make Wally (the real one) into a villain. Maybe it got fixed later, but by that point shit was too SJW for me and I had stopped reading. But the point is, it could all be fixed if we got rid of these freaks and had enough time.