Heroman was a five volume manga (and 26-episode anime) with the original concept, at least, developed by Stan Lee and the animation studio, Bones. But I think the manga is mostly Tamon Ohta's efforts, which is why he got lead credit.
Joey Jones is a boy who lost his parents at a young age and lives with his grandmother. He works in a diner to help pay bills, gets flustered around the head cheerleader, Lina, and bullied by her jock brother, Will, and his lackeys. When one of said lackeys breaks a popular robot toy and discards it, Joey picks it out of the trash and repairs it. Then, because of reasons, when trouble comes up, said toy can transform into a giant robot, so he and Joey fight crime together.
Well, they fight a couple of crimes, then a race of intelligent insect aliens invade Earth after being contacted by the wacky science teacher at Joey's school. That occupies most of volumes 1 through 3. Joey gradually growing in confidence, while Will struggles with the fact he's not as strong as he always believed himself to be.
The fallout from the invasion then carries through the remaining two volumes. First, when the government tries to hunt down the strange robot that succeeded where their military failed, then with Joey and Heroman investigating reports of weird stuff that might be left over from the invasion.
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