Stan Lee Reveals His Least Favourite Marvel Creation

Stan Lee has revealed the identity of his least favourite Marvel character.

Having churned out hundreds of different characters over sixty years, Lee has admitted to having a dislike for only one creation - Fantastic Four villain Diablo, who enjoyed a brief life in the comic's issue #30 in the summer of 1964.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Lee said: "Oh, no, if I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t have written it. Wait a minute, there was one. Jack Kirby and I were doing the Fantastic Four. We needed a new villain - we always worked under tremendous deadlines; we were doing dozens of books a month. I said, 'Jack, I think a great name is Diablo; why don’t you draw a guy called Diablo, and we’ll give him some kind of power.' And he drew a real scary-looking guy, but I had no idea who Diablo was or where he came from.

"I must have batted out something and Jack drew it, and to this day I can’t remember what the Diablo story was. The only thing I ever wrote that I don’t know what it was! So I think I didn’t like that particular issue."

Lee is responsible for creating iconic characters such as Spider-Man, The X-Men and The Incredible Hulk over the course of his career.