Stan Lee

Stan Lee
Birth name:	Stanley Martin Lieber
Gender:	Male
Medium(s):	Comic books
Roles:	Writer; Editor; Producer; Executive producer; Actor; Voice actor
Born:	December 28th, 1922
Died:	November 12th, 2018
Notable works:	Daredevil Fantastic Four Iron Man Spider-Man X-Men
1st Sci-Fi:	Captain America Comics #3

Stan Lee was an American comic-book writer, editor, film executive producer, and publisher. He was formerly editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, and later its executive vice president and publisher before leaving the company to become its chairman emeritus, as well as a member of the editorial board.

In collaboration with several artists, including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, Thor, the X-Men, and many other fictional characters, introducing a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. In addition, he challenged the comics' industry's censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, indirectly leading to it updating its policies. Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

Lee started out as an assistant at Timely Publications in the late 1930s, but made his fabulous foray into the world of comic writing in early 1941 when he drafted the storyline for "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" in the third vignette in Captain America Comics #3.

By the early 1960s, after having already spent two decades in the industry, Lee was planning a career change. If not for the advice of publisher Martin Goodman, who urged him to come up with some superhero ideas to compete with DC Comics, comic book history might not have turned out quite the way we remember it. Inspired to create characters with multiple dimensions, Lee partnered up with legendary artist Jack Kirby and put together a quartet of costumed heroes that would live on in kiddie book infamy - the Fantastic Four. It would not even be year before most popular comic concept would spring... or rather, swing, to life - the Amazing Spider-Man, who debuted in the pages of Amazing Fantasy #15 in August, 1962.

He 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. Lee received a National Medal of Arts in 2008.

Stan Lee passed away on November 12th, 2018 at the age of 95. A life well-lived. Excelsior.

Comics[]

As editor[]

As writer[]

Film[]

Television[]

As a consultant[]

• Incredible Hulk: The First (Part 1)

As an actor[]

• The Gifted: eXposed

Notes & Trivia[]

• Stan Lee is the older brother of fellow comics scribe Larry Lieber.

• Stan Lee was a cousin to Jean Davis, who married Timely Comics publisher Martin Goodman.

• Stan Lee was married to Joan Lee who did voice work as Miss Forbes on episodes of Fantastic Four in 1994 and as Madame Web on Spider-Man from 1996-1998.

• Stan Lee did not make his traditional movie cameo in Deadpool 2 in 2018, but his face can be seen as part of a mosaic on the side of a building in the scene where Domino is sky-diving down to the ground.

• Stan Lee's final movie cameo appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was in Avengers: Endgame as a 1970 motorist driving along a highway.

External Links[]

• Stan Lee at MDP
• Stan Lee at Wikipedia
• Stan Lee at Comic Vine
• Stan Lee at Amazon.com

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