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Stan Lee

January 13, 2023

This article is about the comics creator. For other people with the same name, see Stan Lee (disambiguation).

Stan Lee[1] (born Stanley Martin Lieber /ˈliːbər/; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Comics which would later become Marvel Comics. He was the primary creative leader for two decades, leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics and film industries.

Stan Lee
Lee in 2014
BornStanley Martin Lieber
(1922-12-28)December 28, 1922
New York City, U.S.
DiedNovember 12, 2018(2018-11-12) (aged 95)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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In collaboration with others at Marvel—particularly co-writers/artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko—he co-created iconic characters, including superheroes Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, the Scarlet Witch, and Black Widow. These and other characters' introductions in the 1960s pioneered a more naturalistic approach in superhero comics, and in the 1970s Lee challenged the restrictions of the Comics Code Authority, indirectly leading to changes in its policies. In the 1980s he pursued the development of Marvel properties in other media, with mixed results.

Following his retirement from Marvel in the 1990s, Lee remained a public figurehead for the company, and frequently made cameo appearances in films and television shows based on Marvel characters on which he received an executive producer credit, which allowed him to become the highest grossing person in film of all time.[2] He continued independent creative ventures into his 90s until his death in 2018. Lee was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995. He received the NEA's National Medal of Arts in 2008.

Biography

Early life

Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922, in Manhattan, New York City,[3] in the apartment of his Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents, Celia (née Solomon) and Jack Lieber, at the corner of West 98th Street and West End Avenue.[4][5] Lee was raised in a Jewish household. In a 2002 interview, he stated when asked if he believed in God, "Well, let me put it this way... [Pauses.] No, I'm not going to try to be clever. I really don't know. I just don't know."[6] On another interview from 2011, when asked about his Romanian origins and his relationship with the country, he said that he had never visited it and that he did not know Romanian because his parents never taught it to him.[7]

Lee's father, trained as a dress cutter, worked only sporadically after the Great Depression.[4] The family moved further uptown to Fort Washington Avenue,[8] in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Lee had one younger brother named Larry Lieber.[9] He said in 2006 that as a child he was influenced by books and movies, particularly those with Errol Flynn playing heroic roles.[10] Reading The Scarlet Pimpernel, he called the title character "the first superhero I had read about, the first character who could be called a superhero."[11] By the time Lee was in his teens, the family was living in an apartment at 1720 University Avenue in The Bronx. Lee described it as "a third-floor apartment facing out back". Lee and his brother shared the bedroom, while their parents slept on a foldout couch.[9]

Lee attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.[12] In his youth, Lee enjoyed writing, and entertained dreams of writing the "Great American Novel" one day.[13] He said that in his youth he worked such part-time jobs as writing obituaries for a news service and press releases for the National Tuberculosis Center;[14] delivering sandwiches for the Jack May pharmacy to offices in Rockefeller Center; working as an office boy for a trouser manufacturer; ushering at the Rivoli Theater on Broadway;[15] and selling subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune newspaper.[16] At fifteen, Lee entered a high school essay competition sponsored by the New York Herald Tribune, called "The Biggest News of the Week Contest." Lee claimed to have won the prize for three straight weeks, goading the newspaper to write him and ask him to let someone else win. The paper suggested he look into writing professionally, which Lee claimed "probably changed my life."[17] He graduated from high school early, aged sixteen and a half,[why?][how?] in 1939 and joined the WPA Federal Theatre Project.[18]

Marriage and residences

From 1945 to 1947, Lee lived in the rented top floor of a brownstone in the East 90s in Manhattan.[19] He married Joan Clayton Boocock, originally from Newcastle, England,[20] on December 5, 1947,[21][22] and in 1949, the couple bought a house in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island, living there through 1952.[23] Their daughter Joan Celia "J. C." Lee was born in 1950. Another daughter, Jan Lee, died a few days after her birth in 1953.[24]

The Lees resided in the Long Island town of Hewlett Harbor, New York, from 1952 to 1980.[25] They also owned a condominium on East 63rd Street in Manhattan from 1975 to 1980,[26] and during the 1970s they owned a vacation home in Remsenburg, New York.[27] For their move to the West Coast in 1981, they bought a home in West Hollywood, California, previously owned by comedian Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson.[28]

Philanthropy

The Stan Lee Foundation was founded in 2010 to focus on literacy, education, and the arts. Its stated goals include supporting programs and ideas that improve access to literacy resources, as well as promoting diversity, national literacy, culture and the arts.[29]

Lee donated portions of his personal effects to the University of Wyoming at various times, between 1981 and 2001.[30]

Legal concerns

Lee engaged in several legal actions in his later years.

Intellectual property

In 2017, POW! was acquired by Camsing International, a Chinese company, during the period Lee was caring for his terminally ill wife and dealing with his own failing eyesight. Lee filed a US$1 billion lawsuit against POW! in May 2018, asserting that POW! had not disclosed the terms of its acquisition by Camsing to him. Lee stated that POW! CEO Shane Duffy and co-founder Gill Champion had presented him with what they said was a non-exclusive license for POW! for him to sign, under Camsing, to use his likeness and other intellectual property. This contract turned out to be an exclusive license, which Lee claimed he would never have entered.[31]

Lee's lawsuit contended that POW! took over his social media accounts and was impersonating him inappropriately. POW! considered these complaints without merit and claimed that both Lee and his daughter J.C. were aware of the terms.[32] The lawsuit was dropped in July 2018, with Lee issuing the statement: "The whole thing has been confusing to everyone, including myself and the fans, but I am now happy to be surrounded by those who want the best for me" and saying that he was happy to be working with POW! again.[33]

Following Lee's death, his daughter J.C. gathered a legal team to review the legal situation relating to Lee's intellectual property from his later years. In September 2019, J.C. filed a new lawsuit against POW! in the United States District Court for the Central District of California not only related to recent events but also to regain the intellectual property rights that Lee had set up when founding Stan Lee Entertainment in 1998. The complaint identified a period between 2001 and 2017 during which Lee's partners Gill Champion and Arthur Lieberman were said to have misled Lee about various intellectual property rights deals.[34]

In June 2020, Judge Otis D. Wright II dismissed J.C. Lee's lawsuit against POW! Entertainment, declaring it "frivolous" and "improper", sanctioning J.C. Lee for $1,000,000, and sanctioning her lawyers for $250,000 individually and severally. The court also gave POW! Entertainment the right to make a motion to recover legal fees. "We feel vindicated by the Court's decision today," said POW! in a statement. "Stan purposefully created POW! eighteen years ago with me as a place to safeguard his life's work. Before he passed, Stan was adamant that POW! continue to protect his creations and his identity after he was gone, because he trusted that we would safeguard his legacy for generations to come."[35]

Sexual harassment allegations

On January 10, 2018, the Mail Online alleged that Lee was accused by a small number of nurses of sexually harassing them at his home in early 2017. Lee denied the allegations and claimed that the nurses were attempting to extort him.[36]

Victim of elder abuse

In April 2018, The Hollywood Reporter published a report that claimed Lee was a victim of elder abuse; the report asserted that, among others, Keya Morgan, Lee's business manager and a memorabilia collector, had been isolating Lee from his trusted friends and associates following his wife's death in order to obtain access to Lee's wealth, estimated to amount to US$50 million.[37][38] In August 2018, a restraining order was issued against Morgan to stay away from Lee, his daughter, and his associates for three years.[39] The Los Angeles Superior Court charged Morgan in May 2019 with five counts of abuse for events that had occurred in mid-2018.[40] The charges were false imprisonment, grand theft of an elder or dependent adult, fraud, forgery, and elder abuse.[41][42]

Another figure in the alleged abuse was Lee's former business manager Jerardo Olivarez, who was introduced to Lee by J.C. after his wife's death. Lee filed suit against Olivarez in April 2018, calling him one of several "unscrupulous businessmen, sycophants and opportunists" that approached him during this period. According to Lee's complaint, after gaining Lee's power of attorney, Olivarez fired Lee's personal banker, changed Lee's will, convinced him to allow transfers of millions of dollars from his accounts and used some of the funds to purchase a condominium.[43]

Later years and death

In September 2012, Lee underwent an operation to insert a pacemaker, which required cancelling planned appearances at conventions.[44][45] Lee eventually retired from convention appearances by 2017.[46]

On July 6, 2017, Joan Boocock, his wife of 69 years, died of complications from a stroke. She was 95 years old.[47]

Lee died on November 12, 2018, just one month before his 96th birthday, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after being rushed there for a medical emergency earlier in the day.[48][49][50] Lee had previously been hospitalized for pneumonia in February of that year.[51] The immediate cause of death listed on his death certificate was cardiac arrest with respiratory failure and congestive heart failure as underlying causes. It also indicated that he suffered from aspiration pneumonia. His body was cremated and his ashes were given to his daughter.[52]

Roy Thomas, who succeeded Lee as editor-in-chief at Marvel, had visited Lee two days prior to his death to discuss the upcoming book The Stan Lee Story and stated "I think he was ready to go. But he was still talking about doing more cameos. As long as he had the energy for it and didn't have to travel, Stan was always up to do some more cameos. He got a kick out of those more than anything else."[53]

Publishing career

Early career

With the help of his uncle Robbie Solomon,[54] Lee became an assistant in 1939 at the new Timely Comics division belonging to pulp magazine and comic-book publisher Martin Goodman. Timely, by the 1960s, would evolve into Marvel Comics. Lee, whose cousin Jean[55] was Goodman's wife, was formally hired by Timely editor Joe Simon.[n 1]

His duties were prosaic at first. "In those days [the artists] dipped the pen in ink, [so] I had to make sure the inkwells were filled", Lee recalled in 2009. "I went down and got them their lunch, I did proofreading, I erased the pencils from the finished pages for them".[57] Marshaling his childhood ambition to be a writer, young Stanley Lieber made his comic-book debut with the text filler "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" in Captain America Comics #3 (cover-dated May 1941), using the pseudonym Stan Lee (a play on his first name, "Stanley"),[58] which years later he would adopt as his legal name.[59] Lee later explained in his autobiography and numerous other sources that because of the low social status of comic books, he was so embarrassed that he used a pen name so nobody would associate his real name with comics when he wrote the Great American Novel one day.[60] This initial story also introduced Captain America's trademark ricocheting shield-toss.[61]: 11  It would be adapted into a sequential art story in 2014 by Lee and Bruce Timm in Marvel's 75th Anniversary Celebration.[62]

Lee graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a backup feature, "'Headline' Hunter, Foreign Correspondent", two issues later, using the pseudonym "Reel Nats".[63] His first superhero co-creation was the Destroyer, in Mystic Comics #6 (August 1941). Other characters he co-created during this period, called the Golden Age of Comic Books, include Jack Frost, debuting in U.S.A. Comics #1 (August 1941), and Father Time, debuting in Captain America Comics #6 (August 1941).[61]: 12–13 

When Simon and his creative partner Jack Kirby left in late 1941 following a dispute with Goodman, the 30-year-old publisher installed Lee, just under 19 years old, as interim editor.[61]: 14 [64] The youngster showed a knack for the business that led him to remain as the comic-book division's editor-in-chief, as well as art director for much of that time, until 1972, when he would succeed Goodman as publisher.[65][66]

 
Lee in the Army, early 1940s

Lee entered the United States Army in early 1942 and served within the US as a member of the Signal Corps, repairing telegraph poles and other communications equipment.[67] He was later transferred to the Training Film Division, where he worked writing manuals, training films, slogans, and occasionally cartooning.[68] His military classification, he said, was "playwright"; he added that only nine men in the U.S. Army were given that title.[69] In the Army, Lee's division included many famous or soon-to-be famous people, including three-time Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra, New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams, and children's book writer and illustrator Theodor Geisel, later known to the world as "Dr. Seuss."[70]

Vincent Fago, editor of Timely's "animation comics" section, which put out humor and talking animal comics, filled in until Lee returned from his World War II military service in 1945. Lee was inducted into the Signal Corps Regimental Association and was given honorary membership of the 2nd Battalion of 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord at the 2017 Emerald City Comic Con for his prior service.[71]

While in the Army, Lee received letters every week on Friday from the editors at Timely, detailing what they needed written and by when. Lee would write stories, then send them back on Monday. One week, the mail clerk overlooked his letter, explaining that nothing was in Lee's mailbox. The next day, Lee went by the closed mailroom and saw an envelope with the return address of Timely Comics in his mailbox. Not willing to miss a deadline, Lee asked the officer in charge to open the mailroom, but the latter refused. So Lee took a screwdriver and unscrewed the mailbox hinges, retrieving the envelope containing his assignment. The mailroom officer saw what he did and turned him into the base captain, who did not like Lee. He faced tampering charges and could have been sent to Leavenworth Prison. The colonel in charge of the Finance Department intervened and saved Lee from disciplinary action.[72]

In the mid-1950s, by which time the company was now generally known as Atlas Comics, Lee wrote stories in a variety of genres including romance, Westerns, humor, science fiction, medieval adventure, horror and suspense. In the 1950s, Lee teamed up with his comic book colleague Dan DeCarlo to produce the syndicated newspaper strip My Friend Irma, based on the radio comedy starring Marie Wilson.[73] By the end of the decade, Lee had become dissatisfied with his career and considered quitting the field.[74][75]

Marvel Comics

Marvel revolution

In the late 1950s, DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz revived the superhero archetype and experienced significant success with an updated version of the Flash, and later with the Justice League of America super-team. In response, publisher Martin Goodman assigned Lee to come up with a new superhero team. Lee's wife suggested that he experiment with stories he preferred, since he was planning on changing careers and had nothing to lose.[48]

Lee acted on the advice, giving his superheroes a flawed humanity, a change from the ideal archetypes typically written for preteens. Before this, most superheroes had been idealistically perfect people with no serious, lasting problems.[76] Lee introduced complex, naturalistic characters[77] who could have bad tempers, fits of melancholy, and vanity; they bickered amongst themselves, worried about paying their bills and impressing girlfriends, got bored or sometimes even physically ill.

The first superheroes Lee and artist Jack Kirby created together were the Fantastic Four. The team's immediate popularity[78] led Lee and Marvel's illustrators to produce a cavalcade of new titles. Again working with Kirby, Lee co-created the Hulk,[79] Thor,[80] Iron Man,[81] and the X-Men;[82] with Bill Everett, Daredevil;[83] and with Steve Ditko, Doctor Strange[84] and Marvel's most successful character, Spider-Man,[85] all of whom lived in a thoroughly shared universe.[86] Lee and Kirby gathered several of their newly created characters together into the team title The Avengers[87] and would revive characters from the 1940s such as the Sub-Mariner[88] and Captain America.[89] Years later, Kirby and Lee would contest who deserved credit for creating The Fantastic Four.[90]

Comics historian Peter Sanderson wrote that in the 1960s:

DC was the equivalent of the big Hollywood studios: After the brilliance of DC's reinvention of the superhero ... in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it had run into a creative drought by the decade's end. There was a new audience for comics now, and it wasn't just the little kids that traditionally had read the books. The Marvel of the 1960s was in its own way the counterpart of the French New Wave... Marvel was pioneering new methods of comics storytelling and characterization, addressing more serious themes, and in the process keeping and attracting readers in their teens and beyond. Moreover, among this new generation of readers were people who wanted to write or draw comics themselves, within the new style that Marvel had pioneered, and push the creative envelope still further.[91]

Lee's revolution extended beyond the characters and storylines to the way in which comic books engaged the readership and built a sense of community between fans and creators.[92] He introduced the practice of regularly including a credit panel on the splash page of each story, naming not just the writer and penciller but also the inker and letterer. Regular news about Marvel staff members and upcoming storylines was presented on the Bullpen Bulletins page, which (like the letter columns that appeared in each title) was written in a friendly, chatty style. Lee remarked that his goal was for fans to think of the comics creators as friends, and considered it a mark of his success on this front that, at a time when letters to other comics publishers were typically addressed "Dear Editor", letters to Marvel addressed the creators by first name (e.g., "Dear Stan and Jack"). Lee recorded messages to the newly formed Merry Marvel Marching Society fan club in 1965.[93] By 1967, the brand was well-enough ensconced in popular culture that a March 3 WBAI radio program with Lee and Kirby as guests was titled "Will Success Spoil Spiderman [sic]".[94]

Throughout the 1960s, Lee scripted, art-directed and edited most of Marvel's series, moderated the letters pages, wrote a monthly column called "Stan's Soapbox", and wrote endless promotional copy, often signing off with his trademark motto, "Excelsior!" (which is also the New York state motto). To maintain his workload and meet deadlines, he used a system that was used previously by various comic-book studios, but due to Lee's success with it, became known as the "Marvel Method". Typically, Lee would brainstorm a story with the artist and then prepare a brief synopsis rather than a full script. Based on the synopsis, the artist would fill the allotted number of pages by determining and drawing the panel-to-panel storytelling. After the artist turned in penciled pages, Lee would write the word balloons and captions, and then oversee the lettering and coloring. In effect, the artists were co-plotters, whose collaborative first drafts Lee built upon.[95]

Following Ditko's departure from Marvel in 1966, John Romita Sr. became Lee's collaborator on The Amazing Spider-Man. Within a year, it overtook Fantastic Four to become the company's top seller.[96] Lee and Romita's stories focused as much on the social and college lives of the characters as they did on Spider-Man's adventures.[97] The stories became more topical, addressing issues such as the Vietnam War,[98] political elections,[99] and student activism.[100] Robbie Robertson, introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #51 (August 1967) was one of the first African-American characters in comics to play a serious supporting role.[101] In the Fantastic Four series, the lengthy run by Lee and Kirby produced many acclaimed storylines as well as characters that have become central to Marvel, including the Inhumans[102][103] and the Black Panther,[104] an African king who would be mainstream comics' first black superhero.[105]

The story frequently cited as Lee and Kirby's finest achievement[106][107] is the three-part "Galactus Trilogy" that began in Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966), chronicling the arrival of Galactus, a cosmic giant who wanted to devour the planet, and his herald, the Silver Surfer.[108][109] Fantastic Four #48 was chosen as #24 in the 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time poll of Marvel's readers in 2001. Editor Robert Greenberger wrote in his introduction to the story that "As the fourth year of the Fantastic Four came to a close, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby seemed to be only warming up. In retrospect, it was perhaps the most fertile period of any monthly title during the Marvel Age."[110] Comics historian Les Daniels noted that "[t]he mystical and metaphysical elements that took over the saga were perfectly suited to the tastes of young readers in the 1960s", and Lee soon discovered that the story was a favorite on college campuses.[111] Lee and artist John Buscema launched The Silver Surfer series in August 1968.[112][113]

The following year, Lee and Gene Colan created the Falcon, comics' first African-American superhero, in Captain America #117 (September 1969).[114] In 1971, Lee indirectly helped reform the Comics Code.[115] The U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare had asked Lee to write a comic-book story about the dangers of drugs and Lee conceived a three-issue subplot in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (cover-dated May–July 1971), in which Peter Parker's best friend becomes addicted to prescription drugs. The Comics Code Authority refused to grant its seal because the stories depicted drug use; the anti-drug context was considered irrelevant. With Goodman's cooperation and confident that the original government request would give him credibility, Lee had the story published without the seal. The comics sold well and Marvel won praise for its socially conscious efforts.[116] The CCA subsequently loosened the Code to permit negative depictions of drugs, among other new freedoms.[117][118]

Lee also supported using comic books to provide some measure of social commentary about the real world, often dealing with racism and bigotry.[119] "Stan's Soapbox", besides promoting an upcoming comic book project, also addressed issues of discrimination, intolerance, or prejudice.[120][121]

In 1972, Lee stopped writing monthly comic books to assume the role of publisher. His final issue of The Amazing Spider-Man was #110 (July 1972)[122] and his last Fantastic Four was #125 (August 1972).[123]

Later Marvel years

 
Lee speaking at a convention circa 1980

Lee became a figurehead and public face for Marvel Comics. He made appearances at comic book conventions around America, lecturing at colleges and participating in panel discussions. Lee and John Romita Sr. launched the Spider-Man newspaper comic strip on January 3, 1977.[124] Lee's final collaboration with Jack Kirby, The Silver Surfer: The Ultimate Cosmic Experience, was published in 1978 as part of the Marvel Fireside Books series and is considered to be Marvel's first graphic novel.[125] Lee and John Buscema produced the first issue of The Savage She-Hulk (February 1980), which introduced the female cousin of the Hulk,[126] and crafted a Silver Surfer story for Epic Illustrated #1 (Spring 1980).[127]

He moved to California in 1981 to develop Marvel's TV and movie properties. He was an executive producer for, and made cameo appearances in Marvel film adaptations and other movies. He occasionally returned to comic book writing with various Silver Surfer projects including a 1982 one-shot drawn by John Byrne,[128] the Judgment Day graphic novel illustrated by John Buscema,[129] the Parable limited series drawn by French artist Mœbius,[130] and The Enslavers graphic novel with Keith Pollard.[131] Lee was briefly president of the entire company, but soon stepped down to become publisher instead, finding that being president was too much about numbers and finance and not enough about the creative process he enjoyed.[132]

Beyond Marvel

Lee stepped away from regular duties at Marvel in the 1990s, though he continued to receive an annual salary of $1 million as chairman emeritus.[133] In 1998 he and Peter Paul began a new Internet-based superhero creation, production, and marketing studio, Stan Lee Media.[134] It grew to 165 people and went public through a reverse merger structured by investment banker Stan Medley in 1999, but, near the end of 2000, investigators discovered illegal stock manipulation by Paul and corporate officer Stephan Gordon.[135] Stan Lee Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February 2001.[136] Paul was extradited to the U.S. from Brazil and pleaded guilty to violating SEC Rule 10b-5 in connection with trading his stock in Stan Lee Media.[137][138] Lee was never implicated in the scheme.[139]

Following the success of Fox Studio's 2000 X-Men film and Sony's then-current Spider-Man film, Lee sued Marvel in 2002, claiming that the company was failing to pay his share of the profits from movies featuring the characters he had co-created. Because he had done so as an employee, Lee did not own them, but in the 1990s, after decades of making little money licensing them for television and film, Marvel had promised him 10% of any future profits.[133] Lee and the company settled in 2005 for an undisclosed seven-figure amount.[140][133]

In 2001, Lee, Gill Champion, and Arthur Lieberman formed POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment to develop film, television, and video game properties. Lee created the risqué animated superhero series Stripperella for Spike TV. That same year, DC Comics released its first work written by Lee, the Just Imagine... series, in which Lee reimagined the DC superheroes Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and the Flash.[141]

In 2004, POW! Entertainment went public through a reverse merger again structured by investment banker Stan Medley. Also that year, Lee announced a superhero program that would feature former Beatle Ringo Starr as the lead character.[142][143] Additionally, in August of that year, Lee announced the launch of Stan Lee's Sunday Comics,[144] a short-lived subscription service hosted by Komikwerks.com. From July 2006 until September 2007 Lee hosted, co-created, executive-produced, and judged the reality television game show competition Who Wants to Be a Superhero? on the Sci-Fi Channel.[145]

In March 2007, after Stan Lee Media had been purchased by Jim Nesfield, the company filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment for $5 billion, claiming Lee had given his rights to several Marvel characters to Stan Lee Media in exchange for stock and a salary.[146] In June 2007, Stan Lee Media sued Lee; his newer company, POW! Entertainment; and POW! subsidiary QED Entertainment.[147][148]

In 2008, Lee wrote humorous captions for the political fumetti book Stan Lee Presents Election Daze: What Are They Really Saying?[149] In April of that year, Brighton Partners and Rainmaker Animation announced a partnership with POW! to produce a CGI film series, Legion of 5.[150] Other projects by Lee announced in the late 2000s included a line of superhero comics for Virgin Comics,[151] a TV adaptation of the novel Hero,[152] a foreword to Skyscraperman by skyscraper fire-safety advocate and Spider-Man fan Dan Goodwin,[153] a partnership with Guardian Media Entertainment and The Guardian Project to create NHL superhero mascots,[154] and work with the Eagle Initiative program to find new talent in the comic book field.[155]

 
Lee promoting Stan Lee's Kids Universe at the 2011 New York Comic Con

In October 2011, Lee announced he would partner with 1821 Comics on a multimedia imprint for children, Stan Lee's Kids Universe, a move he said addressed the lack of comic books targeted for that demographic; and that he was collaborating with the company on its futuristic graphic novel Romeo & Juliet: The War, by writer Max Work and artist Skan Srisuwan.[156][157] At the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International, Lee announced his YouTube channel, Stan Lee's World of Heroes, which airs programs created by Lee, Mark Hamill, Peter David, Adrianne Curry and Bonnie Burton, among others.[158][159][160][161] Lee wrote the book Zodiac, released in January 2015, with Stuart Moore.[162] The film Stan Lee's Annihilator, based on a Chinese prisoner-turned-superhero named Ming and in production since 2013, was released in 2015.[163][164][165]

In 2008, POW! Entertainment debuted the manga series Karakuri Dôji Ultimo, a collaboration between Lee and Hiroyuki Takei, Viz Media and Shueisha,[166] The following year POW! released Heroman, which was written by Lee, and serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan with the Japanese company Bones.[167][168] In 2011, Lee started writing a live-action musical, The Yin and Yang Battle of Tao,[169] and created the limited series Blood Red Dragon, a collaboration with Todd McFarlane and Japanese rock star Yoshiki.[170][171]

The 2000s saw Lee's public persona penetrate the public consciousness through merchandising, branding, and appearances in Marvel books as a character in the Marvel Universe. In 2006, Marvel commemorated Lee's 65 years with the company by publishing a series of one-shot comics starring Lee himself meeting and interacting with many of his co-creations, including Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, the Thing, Silver Surfer, and Doctor Doom. These comics also featured short pieces by such comics creators as Joss Whedon and Fred Hembeck, as well as reprints of classic Lee-written adventures.[172] At the 2007 Comic-Con International, Marvel Legends introduced a Stan Lee action figure. The body beneath the figure's removable cloth wardrobe is a reused mold of a previously released Spider-Man action figure, with minor changes.[173] Comikaze Expo, Los Angeles' largest comic book convention, was rebranded as Stan Lee's Comikaze Presented by POW! Entertainment in 2012.[174]

 
Lee at the 2014 Phoenix Comicon

At the 2016 Comic-Con International, Lee introduced his digital graphic novel Stan Lee's God Woke,[175][176][177] with text originally written as a poem he presented at Carnegie Hall in 1972.[178] The print-book version won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards' Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award.[179]

On July 6, 2020, Genius Brands acquired exclusive worldwide rights to use Lee's name, physical likeness, and signature as well as licensing rights to his name and original IPs from POW! Entertainment. The assets will be placed under a new joint-venture with POW!, called Stan Lee Universe.[180] In 2022, Marvel signed a licensing deal with Stan Lee Universe to use Lee's name and likeness in film and television projects, as well as attractions and merchandising.[181]

Bibliography

Books

  • Lee, Stan; Mair, George (2002). Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-2800-8.
  • Lee, Stan (1997) [Originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1974]. Origins of Marvel Comics. Marvel Entertainment Group. ISBN 978-0-7851-0551-0.
  • Lee, Stan; David, Peter (2015). Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1501107771.

Comics bibliography

Lee's comics work includes:[127]

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

Simon and Schuster

Other

Accolades

 
Stan Lee is congratulated by President George W. Bush on receiving the National Medal of Arts in 2008
Year Award Nominated work Result
1974 Inkpot Award[189] Won
1994 The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame[190]
1995 Jack Kirby Hall of Fame[191]
2002 Saturn Award The Life Career Award
2007 Sergio Award[192]
2008 National Medal of Arts[193]
2009 Hugo Award[194] Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation- Iron Man Nominated
Scream Awards[195] Comic-Con Icon Award Won
2011 Hollywood Walk of Fame[196]
2012 Visual Effects Society Awards Lifetime Achievement Award
Producers Guild of America[197] Vanguard Award
2017 National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers[198] Performance in a Comedy, Supporting

Fictional portrayals

Further information: List of comics creators appearing in comics § Stan Lee

Marvel Comics

Stan Lee appears in one panel as "third assistant office boy" in Terry-Toons #12 (September 1943). Stan Lee is featured prominently as a story character in Margie #36 (June 1947).

He later appears in a mask on the cover of Black Rider #8 (March 1950), albeit as a character model, not as Stan Lee.

 
Lee and Kirby (bottom left) as themselves on the cover of The Fantastic Four #10 (January 1963). Art by Kirby and Dick Ayers

Lee and Jack Kirby appear as themselves in The Fantastic Four #10 (January 1963), the first of several appearances within the fictional Marvel Universe.[199] The two are depicted as similar to their real-world counterparts, creating comic books based on the "real" adventures of the Fantastic Four.

Kirby later portrayed himself, Lee, production executive Sol Brodsky, and Lee's secretary Flo Steinberg as superheroes in What If #11 (October 1978), "What If the Marvel Bullpen Had Become the Fantastic Four?", in which Lee played the role of Mister Fantastic.

Lee was shown in numerous cameo appearances in many Marvel titles, appearing in audiences and crowds at many characters' ceremonies and parties. For example, he is seen hosting an old-soldiers reunion in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #100 (July 1972), in The Amazing Spider-Man #169 (June 1977), as a bar patron in Marvels #3 (1994),[200] at Karen Page's funeral in Daredevil vol. 2, #8 (June 1998), and as the priest officiating at Luke Cage and Jessica Jones' wedding in New Avengers Annual #1 (June 2006). Lee and Kirby appear as professors in Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #19 (2006).

He appears in Generation X #17 (July 1996) as a circus ringmaster narrating (in lines written by Lee) a story set in an abandoned circus. This characterization was revived in Marvel's "Flashback" series of titles cover-dated July 1997, numbered "-1", introducing stories about Marvel characters before they became superheroes.

In Stan Lee Meets Superheroes (2007), written by Lee, he comes into contact with some of his favorite creations.[172]

DC Comics

In the first series of Angel and the Ape, (1968–1969), Lee was parodied as Stan Bragg, editor of Brain-Pix Comics.

Lee was parodied by Kirby in Mister Miracle in the early 1970s, as Funky Flashman.[201]

A humorously illustrated Lee briefly appears in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. The character is depicted in a cameo, before being informed by another character that is a DC film. Despite DC Comics being a competitor, Lee himself actually provides the voice for the character.

Other publishers

Lee and other comics creators are mentioned in Michael Chabon's 2000 novel set in the early comics industry The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.[202]

Under the name Stanley Lieber, he appears briefly in Paul Malmont's 2006 novel The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril.[203]

In Lavie Tidhar's 2013 The Violent Century, Lee appears – as Stanley Martin Lieber – as a historian of superhumans.[204]

Film and television appearances

Further information: List of cameo appearances by Stan Lee

Lee had cameo appearances in many Marvel film and television projects, including those within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.[205] A few of these appearances are self-aware and sometimes reference Lee's involvement in the creation of certain characters.[206] He additionally voiced a cameo appearance as himself in the 2018 DC Comics movie Teen Titans Go! To the Movies.[207] Out of respect for Lee, Marvel Studios enacted a new policy following his death that forbids cameos by Lee in new films by using archive footage of him,[208] with Avengers: Endgame (2019) marking his final appearance; the film was released several months after his death.

Lee was featured with his colleagues and family in the 2010 documentary With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story, which explored his life, career, and creations.[209]

Selected cameo appearances:

See also

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ Lee's account of how he began working for Marvel's predecessor, Timely, varied. He said in lectures and elsewhere that he simply answered a newspaper ad seeking a publishing assistant, not knowing it involved comics, let alone his cousin Jean's husband, Martin Goodman:

    I applied for a job in a publishing company ... I didn't even know they published comics. I was fresh out of high school, and I wanted to get into the publishing business, if I could. There was an ad in the paper that said, "Assistant Wanted in a Publishing House." When I found out that they wanted me to assist in comics, I figured, 'Well, I'll stay here for a little while and get some experience, and then I'll get out into the real world.' ... I just wanted to know, 'What do you do in a publishing company?' How do you write? ... How do you publish? I was an assistant. There were two people there named Joe Simon and Jack Kirby – Joe was sort-of the editor/artist/writer, and Jack was the artist/writer. Joe was the senior member. They were turning out most of the artwork. Then there was the publisher, Martin Goodman ... And that was about the only staff that I was involved with. After a while, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby left. I was about 17 years old [sic], and Martin Goodman said to me, 'Do you think you can hold down the job of editor until I can find a real person?' When you're 17, what do you know? I said, 'Sure! I can do it!' I think he forgot about me, because I stayed there ever since.[56]

    In his 2002 autobiography, Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee, he writes:

    My uncle, Robbie Solomon, told me they might be able to use someone at a publishing company where he worked. The idea of being involved in publishing definitely appealed to me. ... So I contacted the man Robbie said did the hiring, Joe Simon, and applied for a job. He took me on and I began working as a gofer for eight dollars a week...

    Joe Simon, in his 1990 autobiography The Comic Book Makers, gives the account slightly differently: "One day [Goodman's relative known as] Uncle Robbie came to work with a lanky 17-year-old in tow. 'This is Stanley Lieber, Martin's wife's cousin,' Uncle Robbie said. 'Martin wants you to keep him busy.'"

    In an appendix, Simon appears to reconcile the two accounts. He relates a 1989 conversation with Lee:

    Lee: I've been saying this [classified-ad] story for years, but apparently it isn't so. And I can't remember because I['ve] said it so long now that I believe it.
    ...
    Simon: Your Uncle Robbie brought you into the office one day and he said, 'This is Martin Goodman's wife's nephew.' [sic] ... You were seventeen years old.

    Lee: Sixteen and a half!

    Simon: Well, Stan, you told me seventeen. You were probably trying to be older... I did hire you.

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stan, this, article, about, comics, creator, other, people, with, same, name, disambiguation, born, stanley, martin, lieber, december, 1922, november, 2018, american, comic, book, writer, editor, publisher, producer, rose, through, ranks, family, business, cal. This article is about the comics creator For other people with the same name see Stan Lee disambiguation Stan Lee 1 born Stanley Martin Lieber ˈ l iː b er December 28 1922 November 12 2018 was an American comic book writer editor publisher and producer He rose through the ranks of a family run business called Timely Comics which would later become Marvel Comics He was the primary creative leader for two decades leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics and film industries Stan LeeLee in 2014BornStanley Martin Lieber 1922 12 28 December 28 1922New York City U S DiedNovember 12 2018 2018 11 12 aged 95 Los Angeles California U S Area s Comic book writereditorpublisherproducerCollaboratorsJack KirbySteve DitkoJohn Romita Sr Don HeckBill EverettJoe ManeelyDick AyersJoe SimonAwardsThe Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame Jack Kirby Hall of Fame National Medal of Arts Disney LegendsSpouse s Joan Boocock m 1947 died 2017 wbr Children2Signaturetherealstanlee wbr comIn collaboration with others at Marvel particularly co writers artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko he co created iconic characters including superheroes Spider Man the X Men Iron Man Thor the Hulk Ant Man the Wasp the Fantastic Four Black Panther Daredevil Doctor Strange the Scarlet Witch and Black Widow These and other characters introductions in the 1960s pioneered a more naturalistic approach in superhero comics and in the 1970s Lee challenged the restrictions of the Comics Code Authority indirectly leading to changes in its policies In the 1980s he pursued the development of Marvel properties in other media with mixed results Following his retirement from Marvel in the 1990s Lee remained a public figurehead for the company and frequently made cameo appearances in films and television shows based on Marvel characters on which he received an executive producer credit which allowed him to become the highest grossing person in film of all time 2 He continued independent creative ventures into his 90s until his death in 2018 Lee was inducted into the comic book industry s Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995 He received the NEA s National Medal of Arts in 2008 Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early life 1 2 Marriage and residences 1 3 Philanthropy 1 4 Legal concerns 1 4 1 Intellectual property 1 4 2 Sexual harassment allegations 1 4 3 Victim of elder abuse 1 5 Later years and death 2 Publishing career 2 1 Early career 2 2 Marvel Comics 2 2 1 Marvel revolution 2 2 2 Later Marvel years 2 3 Beyond Marvel 3 Bibliography 3 1 Books 3 2 Comics bibliography 3 2 1 DC Comics 3 2 2 Marvel Comics 3 2 3 Simon and Schuster 3 2 4 Other 4 Accolades 5 Fictional portrayals 5 1 Marvel Comics 5 2 DC Comics 5 3 Other publishers 6 Film and television appearances 7 See also 8 Explanatory notes 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksBiographyEarly life Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28 1922 in Manhattan New York City 3 in the apartment of his Romanian born Jewish immigrant parents Celia nee Solomon and Jack Lieber at the corner of West 98th Street and West End Avenue 4 5 Lee was raised in a Jewish household In a 2002 interview he stated when asked if he believed in God Well let me put it this way Pauses No I m not going to try to be clever I really don t know I just don t know 6 On another interview from 2011 when asked about his Romanian origins and his relationship with the country he said that he had never visited it and that he did not know Romanian because his parents never taught it to him 7 Lee s father trained as a dress cutter worked only sporadically after the Great Depression 4 The family moved further uptown to Fort Washington Avenue 8 in Washington Heights Manhattan Lee had one younger brother named Larry Lieber 9 He said in 2006 that as a child he was influenced by books and movies particularly those with Errol Flynn playing heroic roles 10 Reading The Scarlet Pimpernel he called the title character the first superhero I had read about the first character who could be called a superhero 11 By the time Lee was in his teens the family was living in an apartment at 1720 University Avenue in The Bronx Lee described it as a third floor apartment facing out back Lee and his brother shared the bedroom while their parents slept on a foldout couch 9 Lee attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx 12 In his youth Lee enjoyed writing and entertained dreams of writing the Great American Novel one day 13 He said that in his youth he worked such part time jobs as writing obituaries for a news service and press releases for the National Tuberculosis Center 14 delivering sandwiches for the Jack May pharmacy to offices in Rockefeller Center working as an office boy for a trouser manufacturer ushering at the Rivoli Theater on Broadway 15 and selling subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune newspaper 16 At fifteen Lee entered a high school essay competition sponsored by the New York Herald Tribune called The Biggest News of the Week Contest Lee claimed to have won the prize for three straight weeks goading the newspaper to write him and ask him to let someone else win The paper suggested he look into writing professionally which Lee claimed probably changed my life 17 He graduated from high school early aged sixteen and a half why how in 1939 and joined the WPA Federal Theatre Project 18 Marriage and residences From 1945 to 1947 Lee lived in the rented top floor of a brownstone in the East 90s in Manhattan 19 He married Joan Clayton Boocock originally from Newcastle England 20 on December 5 1947 21 22 and in 1949 the couple bought a house in Woodmere New York on Long Island living there through 1952 23 Their daughter Joan Celia J C Lee was born in 1950 Another daughter Jan Lee died a few days after her birth in 1953 24 The Lees resided in the Long Island town of Hewlett Harbor New York from 1952 to 1980 25 They also owned a condominium on East 63rd Street in Manhattan from 1975 to 1980 26 and during the 1970s they owned a vacation home in Remsenburg New York 27 For their move to the West Coast in 1981 they bought a home in West Hollywood California previously owned by comedian Jack Benny s radio announcer Don Wilson 28 Philanthropy The Stan Lee Foundation was founded in 2010 to focus on literacy education and the arts Its stated goals include supporting programs and ideas that improve access to literacy resources as well as promoting diversity national literacy culture and the arts 29 Lee donated portions of his personal effects to the University of Wyoming at various times between 1981 and 2001 30 Legal concerns Lee engaged in several legal actions in his later years Intellectual property In 2017 POW was acquired by Camsing International a Chinese company during the period Lee was caring for his terminally ill wife and dealing with his own failing eyesight Lee filed a US 1 billion lawsuit against POW in May 2018 asserting that POW had not disclosed the terms of its acquisition by Camsing to him Lee stated that POW CEO Shane Duffy and co founder Gill Champion had presented him with what they said was a non exclusive license for POW for him to sign under Camsing to use his likeness and other intellectual property This contract turned out to be an exclusive license which Lee claimed he would never have entered 31 Lee s lawsuit contended that POW took over his social media accounts and was impersonating him inappropriately POW considered these complaints without merit and claimed that both Lee and his daughter J C were aware of the terms 32 The lawsuit was dropped in July 2018 with Lee issuing the statement The whole thing has been confusing to everyone including myself and the fans but I am now happy to be surrounded by those who want the best for me and saying that he was happy to be working with POW again 33 Following Lee s death his daughter J C gathered a legal team to review the legal situation relating to Lee s intellectual property from his later years In September 2019 J C filed a new lawsuit against POW in the United States District Court for the Central District of California not only related to recent events but also to regain the intellectual property rights that Lee had set up when founding Stan Lee Entertainment in 1998 The complaint identified a period between 2001 and 2017 during which Lee s partners Gill Champion and Arthur Lieberman were said to have misled Lee about various intellectual property rights deals 34 In June 2020 Judge Otis D Wright II dismissed J C Lee s lawsuit against POW Entertainment declaring it frivolous and improper sanctioning J C Lee for 1 000 000 and sanctioning her lawyers for 250 000 individually and severally The court also gave POW Entertainment the right to make a motion to recover legal fees We feel vindicated by the Court s decision today said POW in a statement Stan purposefully created POW eighteen years ago with me as a place to safeguard his life s work Before he passed Stan was adamant that POW continue to protect his creations and his identity after he was gone because he trusted that we would safeguard his legacy for generations to come 35 Sexual harassment allegations On January 10 2018 the Mail Online alleged that Lee was accused by a small number of nurses of sexually harassing them at his home in early 2017 Lee denied the allegations and claimed that the nurses were attempting to extort him 36 Victim of elder abuse In April 2018 The Hollywood Reporter published a report that claimed Lee was a victim of elder abuse the report asserted that among others Keya Morgan Lee s business manager and a memorabilia collector had been isolating Lee from his trusted friends and associates following his wife s death in order to obtain access to Lee s wealth estimated to amount to US 50 million 37 38 In August 2018 a restraining order was issued against Morgan to stay away from Lee his daughter and his associates for three years 39 The Los Angeles Superior Court charged Morgan in May 2019 with five counts of abuse for events that had occurred in mid 2018 40 The charges were false imprisonment grand theft of an elder or dependent adult fraud forgery and elder abuse 41 42 Another figure in the alleged abuse was Lee s former business manager Jerardo Olivarez who was introduced to Lee by J C after his wife s death Lee filed suit against Olivarez in April 2018 calling him one of several unscrupulous businessmen sycophants and opportunists that approached him during this period According to Lee s complaint after gaining Lee s power of attorney Olivarez fired Lee s personal banker changed Lee s will convinced him to allow transfers of millions of dollars from his accounts and used some of the funds to purchase a condominium 43 Later years and death In September 2012 Lee underwent an operation to insert a pacemaker which required cancelling planned appearances at conventions 44 45 Lee eventually retired from convention appearances by 2017 46 On July 6 2017 Joan Boocock his wife of 69 years died of complications from a stroke She was 95 years old 47 Lee died on November 12 2018 just one month before his 96th birthday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being rushed there for a medical emergency earlier in the day 48 49 50 Lee had previously been hospitalized for pneumonia in February of that year 51 The immediate cause of death listed on his death certificate was cardiac arrest with respiratory failure and congestive heart failure as underlying causes It also indicated that he suffered from aspiration pneumonia His body was cremated and his ashes were given to his daughter 52 Roy Thomas who succeeded Lee as editor in chief at Marvel had visited Lee two days prior to his death to discuss the upcoming book The Stan Lee Story and stated I think he was ready to go But he was still talking about doing more cameos As long as he had the energy for it and didn t have to travel Stan was always up to do some more cameos He got a kick out of those more than anything else 53 Publishing careerEarly career With the help of his uncle Robbie Solomon 54 Lee became an assistant in 1939 at the new Timely Comics division belonging to pulp magazine and comic book publisher Martin Goodman Timely by the 1960s would evolve into Marvel Comics Lee whose cousin Jean 55 was Goodman s wife was formally hired by Timely editor Joe Simon n 1 His duties were prosaic at first In those days the artists dipped the pen in ink so I had to make sure the inkwells were filled Lee recalled in 2009 I went down and got them their lunch I did proofreading I erased the pencils from the finished pages for them 57 Marshaling his childhood ambition to be a writer young Stanley Lieber made his comic book debut with the text filler Captain America Foils the Traitor s Revenge in Captain America Comics 3 cover dated May 1941 using the pseudonym Stan Lee a play on his first name Stanley 58 which years later he would adopt as his legal name 59 Lee later explained in his autobiography and numerous other sources that because of the low social status of comic books he was so embarrassed that he used a pen name so nobody would associate his real name with comics when he wrote the Great American Novel one day 60 This initial story also introduced Captain America s trademark ricocheting shield toss 61 11 It would be adapted into a sequential art story in 2014 by Lee and Bruce Timm in Marvel s 75th Anniversary Celebration 62 Lee graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a backup feature Headline Hunter Foreign Correspondent two issues later using the pseudonym Reel Nats 63 His first superhero co creation was the Destroyer in Mystic Comics 6 August 1941 Other characters he co created during this period called the Golden Age of Comic Books include Jack Frost debuting in U S A Comics 1 August 1941 and Father Time debuting in Captain America Comics 6 August 1941 61 12 13 When Simon and his creative partner Jack Kirby left in late 1941 following a dispute with Goodman the 30 year old publisher installed Lee just under 19 years old as interim editor 61 14 64 The youngster showed a knack for the business that led him to remain as the comic book division s editor in chief as well as art director for much of that time until 1972 when he would succeed Goodman as publisher 65 66 Lee in the Army early 1940s Lee entered the United States Army in early 1942 and served within the US as a member of the Signal Corps repairing telegraph poles and other communications equipment 67 He was later transferred to the Training Film Division where he worked writing manuals training films slogans and occasionally cartooning 68 His military classification he said was playwright he added that only nine men in the U S Army were given that title 69 In the Army Lee s division included many famous or soon to be famous people including three time Academy Award winning director Frank Capra New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams and children s book writer and illustrator Theodor Geisel later known to the world as Dr Seuss 70 Vincent Fago editor of Timely s animation comics section which put out humor and talking animal comics filled in until Lee returned from his World War II military service in 1945 Lee was inducted into the Signal Corps Regimental Association and was given honorary membership of the 2nd Battalion of 3rd U S Infantry Regiment out of Joint Base Lewis McChord at the 2017 Emerald City Comic Con for his prior service 71 While in the Army Lee received letters every week on Friday from the editors at Timely detailing what they needed written and by when Lee would write stories then send them back on Monday One week the mail clerk overlooked his letter explaining that nothing was in Lee s mailbox The next day Lee went by the closed mailroom and saw an envelope with the return address of Timely Comics in his mailbox Not willing to miss a deadline Lee asked the officer in charge to open the mailroom but the latter refused So Lee took a screwdriver and unscrewed the mailbox hinges retrieving the envelope containing his assignment The mailroom officer saw what he did and turned him into the base captain who did not like Lee He faced tampering charges and could have been sent to Leavenworth Prison The colonel in charge of the Finance Department intervened and saved Lee from disciplinary action 72 In the mid 1950s by which time the company was now generally known as Atlas Comics Lee wrote stories in a variety of genres including romance Westerns humor science fiction medieval adventure horror and suspense In the 1950s Lee teamed up with his comic book colleague Dan DeCarlo to produce the syndicated newspaper strip My Friend Irma based on the radio comedy starring Marie Wilson 73 By the end of the decade Lee had become dissatisfied with his career and considered quitting the field 74 75 Marvel Comics Marvel revolution In the late 1950s DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz revived the superhero archetype and experienced significant success with an updated version of the Flash and later with the Justice League of America super team In response publisher Martin Goodman assigned Lee to come up with a new superhero team Lee s wife suggested that he experiment with stories he preferred since he was planning on changing careers and had nothing to lose 48 Lee acted on the advice giving his superheroes a flawed humanity a change from the ideal archetypes typically written for preteens Before this most superheroes had been idealistically perfect people with no serious lasting problems 76 Lee introduced complex naturalistic characters 77 who could have bad tempers fits of melancholy and vanity they bickered amongst themselves worried about paying their bills and impressing girlfriends got bored or sometimes even physically ill The first superheroes Lee and artist Jack Kirby created together were the Fantastic Four The team s immediate popularity 78 led Lee and Marvel s illustrators to produce a cavalcade of new titles Again working with Kirby Lee co created the Hulk 79 Thor 80 Iron Man 81 and the X Men 82 with Bill Everett Daredevil 83 and with Steve Ditko Doctor Strange 84 and Marvel s most successful character Spider Man 85 all of whom lived in a thoroughly shared universe 86 Lee and Kirby gathered several of their newly created characters together into the team title The Avengers 87 and would revive characters from the 1940s such as the Sub Mariner 88 and Captain America 89 Years later Kirby and Lee would contest who deserved credit for creating The Fantastic Four 90 Comics historian Peter Sanderson wrote that in the 1960s DC was the equivalent of the big Hollywood studios After the brilliance of DC s reinvention of the superhero in the late 1950s and early 1960s it had run into a creative drought by the decade s end There was a new audience for comics now and it wasn t just the little kids that traditionally had read the books The Marvel of the 1960s was in its own way the counterpart of the French New Wave Marvel was pioneering new methods of comics storytelling and characterization addressing more serious themes and in the process keeping and attracting readers in their teens and beyond Moreover among this new generation of readers were people who wanted to write or draw comics themselves within the new style that Marvel had pioneered and push the creative envelope still further 91 Lee s revolution extended beyond the characters and storylines to the way in which comic books engaged the readership and built a sense of community between fans and creators 92 He introduced the practice of regularly including a credit panel on the splash page of each story naming not just the writer and penciller but also the inker and letterer Regular news about Marvel staff members and upcoming storylines was presented on the Bullpen Bulletins page which like the letter columns that appeared in each title was written in a friendly chatty style Lee remarked that his goal was for fans to think of the comics creators as friends and considered it a mark of his success on this front that at a time when letters to other comics publishers were typically addressed Dear Editor letters to Marvel addressed the creators by first name e g Dear Stan and Jack Lee recorded messages to the newly formed Merry Marvel Marching Society fan club in 1965 93 By 1967 the brand was well enough ensconced in popular culture that a March 3 WBAI radio program with Lee and Kirby as guests was titled Will Success Spoil Spiderman sic 94 Throughout the 1960s Lee scripted art directed and edited most of Marvel s series moderated the letters pages wrote a monthly column called Stan s Soapbox and wrote endless promotional copy often signing off with his trademark motto Excelsior which is also the New York state motto To maintain his workload and meet deadlines he used a system that was used previously by various comic book studios but due to Lee s success with it became known as the Marvel Method Typically Lee would brainstorm a story with the artist and then prepare a brief synopsis rather than a full script Based on the synopsis the artist would fill the allotted number of pages by determining and drawing the panel to panel storytelling After the artist turned in penciled pages Lee would write the word balloons and captions and then oversee the lettering and coloring In effect the artists were co plotters whose collaborative first drafts Lee built upon 95 Following Ditko s departure from Marvel in 1966 John Romita Sr became Lee s collaborator on The Amazing Spider Man Within a year it overtook Fantastic Four to become the company s top seller 96 Lee and Romita s stories focused as much on the social and college lives of the characters as they did on Spider Man s adventures 97 The stories became more topical addressing issues such as the Vietnam War 98 political elections 99 and student activism 100 Robbie Robertson introduced in The Amazing Spider Man 51 August 1967 was one of the first African American characters in comics to play a serious supporting role 101 In the Fantastic Four series the lengthy run by Lee and Kirby produced many acclaimed storylines as well as characters that have become central to Marvel including the Inhumans 102 103 and the Black Panther 104 an African king who would be mainstream comics first black superhero 105 The story frequently cited as Lee and Kirby s finest achievement 106 107 is the three part Galactus Trilogy that began in Fantastic Four 48 March 1966 chronicling the arrival of Galactus a cosmic giant who wanted to devour the planet and his herald the Silver Surfer 108 109 Fantastic Four 48 was chosen as 24 in the 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time poll of Marvel s readers in 2001 Editor Robert Greenberger wrote in his introduction to the story that As the fourth year of the Fantastic Four came to a close Stan Lee and Jack Kirby seemed to be only warming up In retrospect it was perhaps the most fertile period of any monthly title during the Marvel Age 110 Comics historian Les Daniels noted that t he mystical and metaphysical elements that took over the saga were perfectly suited to the tastes of young readers in the 1960s and Lee soon discovered that the story was a favorite on college campuses 111 Lee and artist John Buscema launched The Silver Surfer series in August 1968 112 113 The following year Lee and Gene Colan created the Falcon comics first African American superhero in Captain America 117 September 1969 114 In 1971 Lee indirectly helped reform the Comics Code 115 The U S Department of Health Education and Welfare had asked Lee to write a comic book story about the dangers of drugs and Lee conceived a three issue subplot in The Amazing Spider Man 96 98 cover dated May July 1971 in which Peter Parker s best friend becomes addicted to prescription drugs The Comics Code Authority refused to grant its seal because the stories depicted drug use the anti drug context was considered irrelevant With Goodman s cooperation and confident that the original government request would give him credibility Lee had the story published without the seal The comics sold well and Marvel won praise for its socially conscious efforts 116 The CCA subsequently loosened the Code to permit negative depictions of drugs among other new freedoms 117 118 Lee also supported using comic books to provide some measure of social commentary about the real world often dealing with racism and bigotry 119 Stan s Soapbox besides promoting an upcoming comic book project also addressed issues of discrimination intolerance or prejudice 120 121 In 1972 Lee stopped writing monthly comic books to assume the role of publisher His final issue of The Amazing Spider Man was 110 July 1972 122 and his last Fantastic Four was 125 August 1972 123 Later Marvel years Lee speaking at a convention circa 1980 Lee became a figurehead and public face for Marvel Comics He made appearances at comic book conventions around America lecturing at colleges and participating in panel discussions Lee and John Romita Sr launched the Spider Man newspaper comic strip on January 3 1977 124 Lee s final collaboration with Jack Kirby The Silver Surfer The Ultimate Cosmic Experience was published in 1978 as part of the Marvel Fireside Books series and is considered to be Marvel s first graphic novel 125 Lee and John Buscema produced the first issue of The Savage She Hulk February 1980 which introduced the female cousin of the Hulk 126 and crafted a Silver Surfer story for Epic Illustrated 1 Spring 1980 127 He moved to California in 1981 to develop Marvel s TV and movie properties He was an executive producer for and made cameo appearances in Marvel film adaptations and other movies He occasionally returned to comic book writing with various Silver Surfer projects including a 1982 one shot drawn by John Byrne 128 the Judgment Day graphic novel illustrated by John Buscema 129 the Parable limited series drawn by French artist Mœbius 130 and The Enslavers graphic novel with Keith Pollard 131 Lee was briefly president of the entire company but soon stepped down to become publisher instead finding that being president was too much about numbers and finance and not enough about the creative process he enjoyed 132 Beyond Marvel Lee stepped away from regular duties at Marvel in the 1990s though he continued to receive an annual salary of 1 million as chairman emeritus 133 In 1998 he and Peter Paul began a new Internet based superhero creation production and marketing studio Stan Lee Media 134 It grew to 165 people and went public through a reverse merger structured by investment banker Stan Medley in 1999 but near the end of 2000 investigators discovered illegal stock manipulation by Paul and corporate officer Stephan Gordon 135 Stan Lee Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February 2001 136 Paul was extradited to the U S from Brazil and pleaded guilty to violating SEC Rule 10b 5 in connection with trading his stock in Stan Lee Media 137 138 Lee was never implicated in the scheme 139 Following the success of Fox Studio s 2000 X Men film and Sony s then current Spider Man film Lee sued Marvel in 2002 claiming that the company was failing to pay his share of the profits from movies featuring the characters he had co created Because he had done so as an employee Lee did not own them but in the 1990s after decades of making little money licensing them for television and film Marvel had promised him 10 of any future profits 133 Lee and the company settled in 2005 for an undisclosed seven figure amount 140 133 In 2001 Lee Gill Champion and Arthur Lieberman formed POW Purveyors of Wonder Entertainment to develop film television and video game properties Lee created the risque animated superhero series Stripperella for Spike TV That same year DC Comics released its first work written by Lee the Just Imagine series in which Lee reimagined the DC superheroes Superman Batman Wonder Woman Green Lantern and the Flash 141 In 2004 POW Entertainment went public through a reverse merger again structured by investment banker Stan Medley Also that year Lee announced a superhero program that would feature former Beatle Ringo Starr as the lead character 142 143 Additionally in August of that year Lee announced the launch of Stan Lee s Sunday Comics 144 a short lived subscription service hosted by Komikwerks com From July 2006 until September 2007 Lee hosted co created executive produced and judged the reality television game show competition Who Wants to Be a Superhero on the Sci Fi Channel 145 In March 2007 after Stan Lee Media had been purchased by Jim Nesfield the company filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment for 5 billion claiming Lee had given his rights to several Marvel characters to Stan Lee Media in exchange for stock and a salary 146 In June 2007 Stan Lee Media sued Lee his newer company POW Entertainment and POW subsidiary QED Entertainment 147 148 In 2008 Lee wrote humorous captions for the political fumetti book Stan Lee Presents Election Daze What Are They Really Saying 149 In April of that year Brighton Partners and Rainmaker Animation announced a partnership with POW to produce a CGI film series Legion of 5 150 Other projects by Lee announced in the late 2000s included a line of superhero comics for Virgin Comics 151 a TV adaptation of the novel Hero 152 a foreword to Skyscraperman by skyscraper fire safety advocate and Spider Man fan Dan Goodwin 153 a partnership with Guardian Media Entertainment and The Guardian Project to create NHL superhero mascots 154 and work with the Eagle Initiative program to find new talent in the comic book field 155 Lee promoting Stan Lee s Kids Universe at the 2011 New York Comic Con In October 2011 Lee announced he would partner with 1821 Comics on a multimedia imprint for children Stan Lee s Kids Universe a move he said addressed the lack of comic books targeted for that demographic and that he was collaborating with the company on its futuristic graphic novel Romeo amp Juliet The War by writer Max Work and artist Skan Srisuwan 156 157 At the 2012 San Diego Comic Con International Lee announced his YouTube channel Stan Lee s World of Heroes which airs programs created by Lee Mark Hamill Peter David Adrianne Curry and Bonnie Burton among others 158 159 160 161 Lee wrote the book Zodiac released in January 2015 with Stuart Moore 162 The film Stan Lee s Annihilator based on a Chinese prisoner turned superhero named Ming and in production since 2013 was released in 2015 163 164 165 In 2008 POW Entertainment debuted the manga series Karakuri Doji Ultimo a collaboration between Lee and Hiroyuki Takei Viz Media and Shueisha 166 The following year POW released Heroman which was written by Lee and serialized in Square Enix s Monthly Shōnen Gangan with the Japanese company Bones 167 168 In 2011 Lee started writing a live action musical The Yin and Yang Battle of Tao 169 and created the limited series Blood Red Dragon a collaboration with Todd McFarlane and Japanese rock star Yoshiki 170 171 The 2000s saw Lee s public persona penetrate the public consciousness through merchandising branding and appearances in Marvel books as a character in the Marvel Universe In 2006 Marvel commemorated Lee s 65 years with the company by publishing a series of one shot comics starring Lee himself meeting and interacting with many of his co creations including Spider Man Doctor Strange the Thing Silver Surfer and Doctor Doom These comics also featured short pieces by such comics creators as Joss Whedon and Fred Hembeck as well as reprints of classic Lee written adventures 172 At the 2007 Comic Con International Marvel Legends introduced a Stan Lee action figure The body beneath the figure s removable cloth wardrobe is a reused mold of a previously released Spider Man action figure with minor changes 173 Comikaze Expo Los Angeles largest comic book convention was rebranded as Stan Lee s Comikaze Presented by POW Entertainment in 2012 174 Lee at the 2014 Phoenix Comicon At the 2016 Comic Con International Lee introduced his digital graphic novel Stan Lee s God Woke 175 176 177 with text originally written as a poem he presented at Carnegie Hall in 1972 178 The print book version won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award 179 On July 6 2020 Genius Brands acquired exclusive worldwide rights to use Lee s name physical likeness and signature as well as licensing rights to his name and original IPs from POW Entertainment The assets will be placed under a new joint venture with POW called Stan Lee Universe 180 In 2022 Marvel signed a licensing deal with Stan Lee Universe to use Lee s name and likeness in film and television projects as well as attractions and merchandising 181 BibliographyBooks Lee Stan Mair George 2002 Excelsior The Amazing Life of Stan Lee Simon amp Schuster ISBN 978 0 7432 2800 8 Lee Stan 1997 Originally published by Simon amp Schuster in 1974 Origins of Marvel Comics Marvel Entertainment Group ISBN 978 0 7851 0551 0 Lee Stan David Peter 2015 Amazing Fantastic Incredible A Marvelous Memoir Simon amp Schuster ISBN 978 1501107771 Comics bibliography Lee s comics work includes 127 DC Comics DC Comics Presents Superman 1 2004 Detective Comics 600 1989 text piece Just Imagine Stan Lee creating Aquaman with Scott McDaniel 2002 Batman with Joe Kubert 2001 Catwoman with Chris Bachalo 2002 Crisis with John Cassaday 2002 Flash with Kevin Maguire 2002 Green Lantern with Dave Gibbons 2001 JLA with Jerry Ordway 2002 Robin with John Byrne 2001 Sandman with Walt Simonson 2002 Secret Files and Origins 2002 Shazam with Gary Frank 2001 Superman with John Buscema 2001 Wonder Woman with Jim Lee 2001 Marvel Comics The Amazing Spider Man 1 100 105 110 116 118 co written with Gerry Conway 200 epilogue Annual 1 5 18 1962 1984 backup stories 634 645 2010 2011 The Amazing Spider Man strips 1977 2018 182 The Avengers 1 34 1963 1966 Captain America 100 141 1968 1971 continues from Tales of Suspense 99 Daredevil 1 9 11 50 53 story Annual 1 1964 1969 Daredevil vol 2 20 backup story 2001 Epic Illustrated 1 Silver Surfer 1980 Fantastic Four 1 114 115 plot 120 125 Annual 1 6 1961 1972 296 1986 The Incredible Hulk 1 6 1962 1963 continues to Tales to Astonish 59 The Incredible Hulk vol 2 108 119 120 plot 1968 1969 Journey into Mystery Thor plotter 83 96 1962 1963 writer 97 125 Annual 1 1963 1966 continues to Thor 126 The Mighty Thor 126 192 200 Annual 1 2 4 1966 1972 385 1987 Kissnation 1 1996 Nightcat 1 1991 Ravage 2099 1 7 1992 1993 Savage She Hulk 1 1980 Savage Tales 1 1971 Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos 1 28 Annual 1 1963 1966 Silver Surfer 1 18 1968 1970 Silver Surfer vol 2 1 1982 Silver Surfer Judgment Day 1988 ISBN 978 0 87135 427 3 Silver Surfer Parable 1 2 1988 1989 Silver Surfer The Enslavers 1990 ISBN 978 0 87135 617 8 Solarman 1 2 1989 1990 The Spectacular Spider Man magazine 1 2 1968 The Spectacular Spider Man Annual 10 1990 Strange Tales diverse stories 9 11 74 89 90 100 1951 1962 Human Torch 101 109 112 133 Annual 2 Doctor Strange 110 111 115 128 130 142 151 157 1962 1967 Nick Fury Agent of S H I E L D 135 147 150 152 1965 1967 Tales to Astonish diverse stories 1 6 12 13 15 17 24 33 1956 1962 Ant Man Giant Man 35 69 1962 1965 The Hulk 59 101 1964 1968 Sub Mariner 70 101 1965 1968 Tales of Suspense diverse stories 7 9 16 22 27 29 30 1959 1962 Iron Man plotter 39 46 1963 writer 47 98 1963 1968 Captain America 59 86 88 99 1964 1968 Web of Spider Man Annual 6 1990 What If Fantastic Four 200 2011 The X Men 1 19 1963 1966 Simon and Schuster The Silver Surfer The Ultimate Cosmic Experience 114 pages September 1978 ISBN 978 0 671 24225 1Other Heroman How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way Karakuri Doji Ultimo manga original concept Accolades Stan Lee is congratulated by President George W Bush on receiving the National Medal of Arts in 2008 The County of Los Angeles and the City of Long Beach declared October 2 2009 Stan Lee Day 183 Boston s Mayor Marty Walsh named August 2 2015 as Stan Lee Day for the city during the annual Boston Comic Con event 184 The office of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that October 7 2016 was Stan Lee Day for the city during the New York Comic Con event 46 At the onset of the 2016 Stan Lee s Comikaze Expo in Los Angeles the Los Angeles City Council announced that October 28 2016 was Stan Lee Day 185 On July 14 2017 Lee and Jack Kirby were named Disney Legends for their creation of numerous characters that later comprised Disney s Marvel Cinematic Universe 186 On July 18 2017 as part of D23 Disney Legends event a ceremony was held at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard where Stan Lee imprinted his hands feet and signature in cement 187 The New York City Council voted on July 23 2019 to name a section of University Avenue in the Bronx between Brandt Place and West 176th Street as Stan Lee Way 188 Year Award Nominated work Result1974 Inkpot Award 189 Won1994 The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame 190 1995 Jack Kirby Hall of Fame 191 2002 Saturn Award The Life Career Award2007 Sergio Award 192 2008 National Medal of Arts 193 2009 Hugo Award 194 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Iron Man NominatedScream Awards 195 Comic Con Icon Award Won2011 Hollywood Walk of Fame 196 2012 Visual Effects Society Awards Lifetime Achievement AwardProducers Guild of America 197 Vanguard Award2017 National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers 198 Performance in a Comedy SupportingFictional portrayalsFurther information List of comics creators appearing in comics Stan Lee Marvel Comics Stan Lee appears in one panel as third assistant office boy in Terry Toons 12 September 1943 Stan Lee is featured prominently as a story character in Margie 36 June 1947 He later appears in a mask on the cover of Black Rider 8 March 1950 albeit as a character model not as Stan Lee Lee and Kirby bottom left as themselves on the cover of The Fantastic Four 10 January 1963 Art by Kirby and Dick Ayers Lee and Jack Kirby appear as themselves in The Fantastic Four 10 January 1963 the first of several appearances within the fictional Marvel Universe 199 The two are depicted as similar to their real world counterparts creating comic books based on the real adventures of the Fantastic Four Kirby later portrayed himself Lee production executive Sol Brodsky and Lee s secretary Flo Steinberg as superheroes in What If 11 October 1978 What If the Marvel Bullpen Had Become the Fantastic Four in which Lee played the role of Mister Fantastic Lee was shown in numerous cameo appearances in many Marvel titles appearing in audiences and crowds at many characters ceremonies and parties For example he is seen hosting an old soldiers reunion in Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos 100 July 1972 in The Amazing Spider Man 169 June 1977 as a bar patron in Marvels 3 1994 200 at Karen Page s funeral in Daredevil vol 2 8 June 1998 and as the priest officiating at Luke Cage and Jessica Jones wedding in New Avengers Annual 1 June 2006 Lee and Kirby appear as professors in Marvel Adventures Spider Man 19 2006 He appears in Generation X 17 July 1996 as a circus ringmaster narrating in lines written by Lee a story set in an abandoned circus This characterization was revived in Marvel s Flashback series of titles cover dated July 1997 numbered 1 introducing stories about Marvel characters before they became superheroes In Stan Lee Meets Superheroes 2007 written by Lee he comes into contact with some of his favorite creations 172 DC Comics In the first series of Angel and the Ape 1968 1969 Lee was parodied as Stan Bragg editor of Brain Pix Comics Lee was parodied by Kirby in Mister Miracle in the early 1970s as Funky Flashman 201 A humorously illustrated Lee briefly appears in Teen Titans Go To the Movies The character is depicted in a cameo before being informed by another character that is a DC film Despite DC Comics being a competitor Lee himself actually provides the voice for the character Other publishers Lee and other comics creators are mentioned in Michael Chabon s 2000 novel set in the early comics industry The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier amp Clay 202 Under the name Stanley Lieber he appears briefly in Paul Malmont s 2006 novel The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril 203 In Lavie Tidhar s 2013 The Violent Century Lee appears as Stanley Martin Lieber as a historian of superhumans 204 Film and television appearancesFurther information List of cameo appearances by Stan Lee Lee had cameo appearances in many Marvel film and television projects including those within the Marvel Cinematic Universe 205 A few of these appearances are self aware and sometimes reference Lee s involvement in the creation of certain characters 206 He additionally voiced a cameo appearance as himself in the 2018 DC Comics movie Teen Titans Go To the Movies 207 Out of respect for Lee Marvel Studios enacted a new policy following his death that forbids cameos by Lee in new films by using archive footage of him 208 with Avengers Endgame 2019 marking his final appearance the film was released several months after his death Lee was featured with his colleagues and family in the 2010 documentary With Great Power The Stan Lee Story which explored his life career and creations 209 Selected cameo appearances The Trial of the Incredible Hulk 1989 Mallrats 1995 X Men 2000 Spider Man 2002 Daredevil 2003 Hulk 2003 Spider Man 2 2004 The Princess Diaries 2 Royal Engagement 2004 Fantastic Four 2005 X Men The Last Stand 2006 Spider Man 3 2007 Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer 2007 Iron Man 2008 The Incredible Hulk 2008 Iron Man 2 2010 Thor 2011 Captain America The First Avenger 2011 The Avengers 2012 The Amazing Spider Man 2012 Iron Man 3 2013 Thor The Dark World 2013 Captain America The Winter Soldier 2014 The Amazing Spider Man 2 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 Big Hero 6 2014 Avengers Age of Ultron 2015 Ant Man 2015 Deadpool 2016 Captain America Civil War 2016 X Men Apocalypse 2016 Doctor Strange 2016 No Good Deed short film 2017 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 2017 Spider Man Homecoming 2017 Thor Ragnarok 2017 Black Panther 2018 Avengers Infinity War 2018 Ant Man and the Wasp 2018 Teen Titans Go To the Movies 2018 Venom 2018 Spider Man Into the Spider Verse posthumous 2018 Captain Marvel posthumous 2019 Avengers Endgame posthumous 2019 See also Biography portal Comics portal Film portal Speculative fiction portalList of American comics creators Lists of American Jews List of Eisner Award winners List of Harvey Award winners List of Jewish American authors List of Marvel Comics people List of pseudonyms List of science fiction authors With great power comes great responsibilityExplanatory notes Lee s account of how he began working for Marvel s predecessor Timely varied He said in lectures and elsewhere that he simply answered a newspaper ad seeking a publishing assistant not knowing it involved comics let alone his cousin Jean s husband Martin Goodman I applied for a job in a publishing company I didn t even know they published comics I was fresh out of high school and I wanted to get into the publishing business if I could There was an ad in the paper that said Assistant Wanted in a Publishing House When I found out that they wanted me to assist in comics I figured Well I ll stay here for a little while and get some experience and then I ll get out into the real world I just wanted to know What do you do in a publishing company How do you write How do you publish I was an assistant There were two people there named Joe Simon and Jack Kirby Joe was sort of the editor artist writer and Jack was the artist writer Joe was the senior member They were turning out most of the artwork Then there was the publisher Martin Goodman And that was about the only staff that I was involved with After a while Joe Simon and Jack Kirby left I was about 17 years old sic and Martin Goodman said to me Do you think you can hold down the job of editor until I can find a real person When you re 17 what do you know I said Sure I can do it I think he forgot about me because I stayed there ever since 56 In his 2002 autobiography Excelsior The Amazing Life of Stan Lee he writes My uncle Robbie Solomon told me they might be able to use someone at a publishing company where he worked The idea of being involved in publishing definitely appealed to me So I contacted the man Robbie said did the hiring Joe Simon and applied for a job He took me on and I began working as a gofer for eight dollars a week Joe Simon in his 1990 autobiography The Comic Book Makers gives the account slightly differently One day Goodman s relative known as Uncle Robbie came to work with a lanky 17 year old in tow This is Stanley Lieber Martin s wife s cousin Uncle Robbie said Martin wants you to keep him busy In an appendix Simon appears to reconcile the two accounts He relates a 1989 conversation with Lee Lee I ve been saying this classified ad story for years but apparently it isn t so And I can t remember because I ve said it so long now that I believe it Simon Your Uncle Robbie brought you into the office one day and he said This is Martin Goodman s wife s nephew sic You were seventeen years old Lee Sixteen and a half Simon Well Stan you told me seventeen You were probably trying to be older I did hire you References Lee amp Mair 2002 p 27 Top Stars at the Worldwide Box Office The Numbers Retrieved September 20 2022 Miller John Jackson June 10 2005 Comics Industry Birthdays Comics Buyer s Guide Iola Wisconsin Archived from the original on February 18 2011 a b Lee amp Mair 2002 p 5 Almanac World 1986 The Celebrity Who s Who World Almanac p 213 ISBN 978 0 345 33990 4 Retrieved August 13 2013 Lee in Is there a God The A V Club October 9 2002 Archived from the 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2008 p 84 It did not take long for editor Stan Lee to realize that The Fantastic Four was a hit the flurry of fan letters all pointed to the FF s explosive popularity DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 85 Based on their collaboration on The Fantastic Four Stan Lee worked with Jack Kirby Instead of a team that fought traditional Marvel monsters however Lee decided that this time he wanted to feature a monster as the hero DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 88 Stan Lee had always been fascinated by the legends of the Norse gods and realized that he could use those tales as the basis for his new series centered on the mighty Thor The heroic and glamorous style that Jack Kirby had was perfect for Thor DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 91 Set against the background of the Vietnam War Iron Man signaled the end of Marvel s monster suspense line when he debuted in Tales of Suspense 39 Stan Lee discussed the general outline for Iron Man with Larry Lieber who later wrote a full script for the origin story DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 94 The X Men 1 introduced the world to Professor Charles Xavier and his teenage students Cyclops Beast Angel Iceman and Marvel Girl Magneto the master of magnetism and future leader of the evil mutants also appeared DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 100 Stan Lee chose the name Daredevil because it evoked swashbucklers and circus daredevils and he assigned Bill Everett the creator of the Sub Mariner to design and draw Daredevil 1 DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 93 Stan Lee decided his new superhero feature would star a magician Since Lee was enjoying his collaborations with Steve Ditko on The Amazing Spider Man he decided to assign the new feature to Ditko who usually handled at least one of the backups in Strange Tales DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 87 Deciding that his new character would have spider like powers Stan Lee commissioned Jack Kirby to work on the first story Unfortunately Kirby s version of Spider Man s alter ego Peter Parker proved too heroic handsome and muscular for Lee s everyman hero Lee turned to Steve Ditko the regular artist on Amazing Adult Fantasy who designed a skinny awkward teenager with glasses Wright p 218 DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 94 Filled with some wonderful visual action The Avengers 1 has a very simple story the Norse god Loki tricked the Hulk into going on a rampage The heroes eventually learned about Loki s involvement and united with the Hulk to form the Avengers DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 86 Stan Lee and Jack Kirby reintroduced one of Marvel s most popular Golden Age heroes Namor the Sub Mariner DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 99 Captain America lives again announced the cover of The Avengers 4 Cap was back Batchelor Bob 2017 Stan Lee The Man Behind Marvel Lanham Maryland Rowman amp Littlefield p 73 ISBN 978 1 4422 7781 6 Sanderson Peter October 10 2003 Continuity Discontinuity Comics in Context column 14 IGN Archived from the original on July 21 2011 Marvel Bullpen Bulletins reprinted on fan site Archived from the original on May 2 2010 Retrieved April 27 2010 Audio of Merry Marvel Marching Society record Archived from the original on December 10 2005 Retrieved January 30 2006 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link including voice of Stan Lee Radio The New York Times March 3 1967 Archived from the original on May 18 2013 Retrieved April 20 2013 Abstract only full article requires payment or subscription Groth Gary Editorial The Comics Journal 75 Sept 1982 p 4 Thomas Roy Sanderson Peter 2007 The Marvel Vault A Museum in a Book with Rare Collectibles from the World of Marvel Philadelphia Pennsylvania Running Press p 98 ISBN 978 0 7624 2844 1 Manning Matthew K 2012 1960s In Gilbert Laura ed Spider Man Chronicle Celebrating 50 Years of Web Slinging London United Kingdom Dorling Kindersley p 37 ISBN 978 0 7566 9236 0 Stan Lee knew that most readers tuned in every month for a glimpse of that side of Spider Man s life as much as they did to see the wall crawler battle the latest supervillain Manning 1960s in Gilbert 2012 p 39 The Amazing Spider Man 47 April 1967 Kraven s latest rematch with Spidey was set during a going away party for Flash Thompson who was facing the very real issue of the Vietnam War draft Manning 1960s in Gilbert 2012 p 43 The Spectacular Spider Man 1 July 1968 Drawn by Romita and Jim Mooney the mammoth 52 page lead story focused on corrupt politician Richard Raleigh s plot to terrorize the city Manning 1960s in Gilbert 2012 p 46 The Amazing Spider Man 68 January 1969 Stan Lee tackled the issues of the day again when with artists John Romita and Jim Mooney he dealt with social unrest at Empire State University David Peter Greenberger Robert 2010 The Spider Man Vault A Museum in a Book with Rare Collectibles Spun from Marvel s Web Philadelphia Pennsylvania Running Press p 34 ISBN 978 0 7624 3772 6 Joseph Robbie Robertson made his debut in The Amazing Spider Man 51 in a manner that was as quiet and unassuming as the character himself His debut wasn t treated like the landmark event that it was he was simply there one day no big deal Cronin Brian September 18 2010 A Year of Cool Comics Day 261 Comic Book Resources Archived from the original on November 23 2010 Retrieved September 29 2010 DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 111 The Inhumans a lost race that diverged from humankind 25 000 years ago and became genetically enhanced Cronin Brian September 19 2010 A Year of Cool Comics Day 262 Comic Book Resources Archived from the original on July 8 2011 Retrieved September 29 2010 DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 117 Stan Lee wanted to do his part by co creating the first black super hero Lee discussed his ideas with Jack Kirby and the result was seen in Fantastic Four 52 Thomas Stan Lee s Amazing Marvel Universe pp 112 115 Hatfield Charles February 2004 The Galactus Trilogy An Appreciation The Collected Jack Kirby Collector 1 211 Cronin Brian February 19 2010 A Year of Cool Comics Day 50 Comic Book Resources Archived from the original on May 4 2010 Retrieved September 29 2010 DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 115 Stan Lee may have started the creative discussion that culminated in Galactus but the inclusion of the Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four 48 was pure Jack Kirby Kirby realized that a being like Galactus required an equally impressive herald Greenberger Robert ed December 2001 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time Marvel Comics p 26 Daniels Les 1991 Marvel Five Fabulous Decades of the World s Greatest Comics Harry N Abrams p 128 ISBN 978 0 8109 3821 2 DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 131 When Stan Lee was told to expand the Marvel line he immediately gave the Surfer his own title Since Jack Kirby had more than enough assignments Lee assigned John Buscema the task of illustrating the new book Daniels p 139 Beautifully drawn by John Buscema this comic book represented an attempt to upgrade the medium with a serious character of whom Lee had grown very fond DeFalco 1960s in Gilbert 2008 p 137 The Black Panther may have broken the mold as Marvel s first black superhero but he was from Africa The Falcon however was the first black American superhero Wright p 239 Saffel Steve 2007 Bucking the Establishment Marvel Style Spider Man the Icon The Life and Times of a Pop Culture Phenomenon Titan Books p 60 ISBN 978 1 84576 324 4 The stories received widespread mainstream publicity and Marvel was hailed for sticking to its guns Daniels pp 152 and 154 As a result of Marvel s successful stand the Comics Code had begun to look just a little foolish Some of its more ridiculous restrictions were abandoned because of Lee s decision van Gelder Lawrence February 4 1971 A Comics Magazine Defies Code Ban on Drug Stories Comics Magazine Defies Industry Code The New York Times p 37 Archived from the original on July 23 2018 Retrieved July 23 2018 Comic Geek Speak Episode 83 December 12 2005 Archived from the original 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writer1972 1973 Succeeded byGerry ConwayPreceded byn a The Incredible Hulk writer including Tales to Astonish stories 1962 1968 Succeeded byGary FriedrichPreceded byGary Friedrich The Incredible Hulk writer1968 1969 Succeeded byRoy ThomasPreceded byn a Thor writer including Journey into Mystery stories 1962 1971 with Larry Lieber in 1962 with Robert Bernstein in 1963 Succeeded byGerry ConwayPreceded byn a The Avengers writer1963 1966 Succeeded byRoy ThomasPreceded byn a Uncanny X Men writer1963 1966 Succeeded byRoy ThomasPreceded byn a Captain America writer including Tales of Suspense stories 1964 1971 Succeeded byGary FriedrichPreceded byn a Daredevil writer1964 1969 Succeeded byRoy Thomas Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Stan Lee amp oldid 1131939971, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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