The Postmodern Sublime–a Different Kind of Crazy.
From the modern to the post-postmodern.
The disturbing sublimity of drawing 10,000 communists.
For readers there is an agreement to relinquish part of our civilized nature when we agree to look at a comic.
Even if hypothetically Lee originated characters, I would argue that where there is no previous model then the artist creates the image and reifies a concept. If there is no model to work from, then one must create the original figure, which henceforth will become that model.
The sublime, the beautiful, landscape, gender, and comics.