At best, all George Lucas could have done was destroy Star Wars on its first outing. Gary Kurtz molded it. Maria Lucas edited it into something which would make sense. And years later, Timothy Zahn defined it.Which Gene truly made the Enterprise into something which could soar for half a century? Roddenberry or Coon?
Bugs Bunny was originally drawn up by Ben Hardaway and Carl Dalton. Directed by Tex Avery. Made into something beloved by just about everyone else at Termite Terrace.
Who's Bonnie Zacherle? She originally created the My Little Pony franchise in the early 80s. Who's Lauren Faust? The redefining party everyone thinks of instead of Bonnie Zacherle.
If you're talking about a Flash artist, you are talking about Carmine Infantino (moved to his next on April 4th). If you're talking about his writer, you are talking about Mark Waid. And his voice is Michael Rosenbaum.
Incidentally, Batman is Kevin Conroy. No one else. Forever. Name one other Batman who could rally the WTC workers just by showing up. But he wouldn't have been who he is without Bill Finger: no detective aspects, no secret identity, no cowl -- all things Bob Kane didn't come up with.
For any long-running franchise which passes through the hands of multiple creators, there will just about always be one person, team, or era which truly puts the eternal stamp on a character and creates the model to follow forever after. And regardless of who came up with the original idea, for better or worse, those who refined it are forever after viewed by the fanbase as
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and everybody else was just attending the birth.