Daredevil followed by X-Men. BUT his original 60s versions aren't all that good and highly different from their still recognizable 70s reboots. Those and what followed is what i love. Spidey though came all figured out right out of the box, so I would list that as Lee´s best comic run.

Lee mostly stopped writing for Marvel after 1981 and only a handful off Silver Surfer (why is he missing as on option, Stan always loved him especially) or FF one-shots followed thereafter. I highly recomend to look up what Stan actually did. Stan Lee and the rise and fall of the American comic book and Marvel Comics: The Untold Story are good starts for that.
Not that i want to downplay his titanic legacy but mostly people really don´t know what he actually acomplished and only know his "Smilin Stan Lee" media persona. He even sued Marvel around the first Spidey movie. Ho boy...

Brian Michael Bendis lastly wrote an intertsing comic eulogy for Stan, which reveals his dire physical condition of the last decade or so: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/obituaries/my-moments- with-stan.html
Not beeing able to see or hear most of the MCU films must have been tough for him.

I haven't seen even half of these, tbh, but I pick X-Men. The Fantastic Four is okay as well (I especially like Susan and Johnny). No idea why Spider Man is so freaking popular, I find him mind-numbingly boring.

Every time Stan Lee has been directly involved in a Spider-Man project, I think it has been phenomenal. The sony movies with Tobey Maguire were dumb and bad, but the original comics, the latest MCU stuff, and the most recent video game, Peter Parker's essence as a nerd who wants to help people and loves diffusing tense situations with bad jokes really resonates.

So yeah, I'm commenting on my own poll idea ?

Here are the further A-list Stan Lee creations that got standalone adaptations or longrunning comics: Black Widow, Captain Marvel (the original), Hawkeye, Nick Fury (Sr.), Man-Thing (he got more adaptation than Swamp Thing!), Sharon Carter, Silver Surfer and The Inhumans.

He also gave us half of the important Marvel villains, even Mephisto. Us Spider-man fans love him... Eternity (highly important in-universe) needs to be mentioned too. Stan further wrote for DC in his advanced age and lend his name to Stripperella, random manga/anime he wouldn´t be able to name and even a casting show. Yeah, his output since the 90s has been universally abysmal.
I will instead point out that he started with comics in 1941 with a fill-in issue for Captain America. He wrote for about 40 years, with few breaks, and is by far the most important comic creator who will EVER live. Eat your heart out Guinness World Record holder for most comics published by one author ISHINOMORI Shotaro.
Stan´s most important comic is The Fantastic Four. That 100+ issue run gave us the Marvel universe as we know and started when he was 39 in 1961. He peaked right before reaching middle age and about the time he wanted to finally retire from comics. How often does that happen?

He lastly got into comics as there were few job opportunities back in the day for jews. That´s how old Stan Lee was and it´s also why Batman, Superman and most Golden Age comic characters were created by Jewish writers. And now you know. Stan Lee only started to respect comics as a medium in his 40s, after 2 decades in the industry! That Zodd he stuck around for another 2.

Edit: Btw. Stan´s Black Panther is the first black superhero and he also co-created the first African-American superhero with Falcon. Falcon is also the first black hero without the word "black" in his code name. Meaning that Stan was pretty woke, even if his female characters were very much of their time.

The poll lacks the option "None". I dislike marvel entirely, I think that their movies are terrible. I can't say for their comics but the "quality" of the movie plots makes me think that I wouldn't like it.

I'm not a huge western comic fans, but Spiderman was always my favourite mainly because I really like the old game back in PS1 generation mmm...

ok sorry to be this guy but for the record a lot of stan lee's "creations" were actually Jack Kirby's creations

Poll should have option for "None".

As residentgrigo has already alluded to, Stan Lee was the most important of a big group of Jewish comic writers to really start introducing kids to the squishier side of heroism and justice: civil rights and tolerance and heroes who doubted themselves for more than just one issue. For that reason I choose the X-Men, as they carried that torch for a long, long time.

Yup, Spiderman'll easily be the most iconic when all is said and done when it comes to Marvel.........well, for right now I guess, give it time and a lot of us old farts'll die off and that'll probably change >_<

And some of ya'll are making this into too big a deal, these are freaking comic books we're talking about, really shouldn't be taking this that seriously ?

Spider Man was really special for it's era
not many young readers of the time would contemplate Gwen Stacy's murder ~1970's(too soon!)
it just not something that was done; but the readership was honored to be present with the MC as he struggles to come to terms with his life and the overwhelming loss
it showed that 'superheroes' could be more hero and less super(a normie) because they have families & associations that have no super powers and are vulnerable to textbook terrorism, leaving them forever conflicted on future crusading.

I voted for Xmen.
It has more freak normalization which I like; though it lacked the gravitas Spidey had.

N.B. Stan Lee had exited writing the storylines just before Gwen was killed off

Don't know or care about any of those honestly.