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who is stan lee?
watchers in marvel are this. You are not far off though, again who is stan lee, and why were so many of the early ideas pushed also incorporating "occult" themes
no not just him, using the esoteric is common in these art forms. Consider at least comics pop culture mockingbird. Think of the characters lee created, now Look who owned the company, look at DC, and look where there former HQ was in NYC. There is also a ton of predictive programming in these books.
totally, the themes pop back up time and time again. comics are just the new media, well they were, that pushed these idea, now its games and cartoons etc. This is biblical. All of it even us being here.