Stan Lee

Stanley Martin Lieber (Manhattan, New York, December 28, 1922-Los Angeles, California, November 12, 2018), better known as Stan Lee, was an American comic book writer and editor, as well as an occasional film producer and actor.

He is mainly known for having co-created iconic comic book characters such as Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Ant-Man and Scarlet Witch, among many other superheroes, almost always accompanied by cartoonists and writers Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby. Stan Lee's work was instrumental in expanding Marvel Comics, taking it from a small advertising house to a large multimedia corporation. Even today, Marvel comics are distinguished by always indicating "Stan Lee presents" in the presentation banners. He also had a television show on the History Channel where he searched for "real" superhumans.

Biography

Stan Lee, in the United States Army, in the 1940s.

Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922 in Manhattan, New York, the son of Celia and Jack Lieber, a married couple of Romanian Jewish immigrants. His father was a tailor and had difficulties in his work due to the Great Depression. Stan had a younger brother, Larry Lieber. In 2006 he said he enjoyed books and movies, especially those starring Errol Flynn. He studied at the DeWitt Clinton Institute in the Bronx, while holding various jobs as a errand boy, obituary writer, and press release writer, until in the late 1940s, shortly after finishing high school, he landed an assistant job at Timely Comics. (today Marvel Comics), then owned by Martin Goodman. At the age of 20, he debuted as a screenwriter with a two-page story starring Captain America. His goal then was to become a writer at the level of his admirers Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle or Edgar Rice Burroughs. Wanting to reserve his name for future novels, he signed this first work with the pen name "Stan Lee" (which, in English, sounds a lot like "Stanley"). Decades later, he officially changed his name, adopting the pseudonym by which he was already universally known. He is also sometimes called "Stan the Man" ("Stan the Man").^{[citation required]}

In 1960 Stan Lee was about to leave Marvel Comics, but his wife convinced him to create "the comic he wanted to do". And in 1961 he achieved success, with the creation of The Fantastic Four, but he still had many more stories to create. In a few years, he created, along with Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, the vast majority of the publisher's classic characters. This success made Marvel become the most important publisher of the moment, and marked the beginning of the so-called Silver Age of American comics. Stan Lee remained for much of the 1960s as editor-in-chief of what was henceforth nicknamed the "House of Ideas," and was succeeded by his assistant, Roy Thomas.

A tireless promoter of Marvel and an emblem of an era and a way of making comics, Stan Lee did not stop writing columns and occasional scripts. Among them, the series of specials "Just Imagine Stan Lee...", from 2001, for DC Comics, Marvel's main competitor, where he recreated the main characters of his universe (Superman, Batman, Flash, among others).^{[citation required]}

Stan Lee together with Chris Evans (intelligence of Captain America and the Human Torch) at Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, in July 2011.

Since the MCU premiered in 2008, Stan Lee has been receiving symbolic tributes, by way of cameo, in most of his films. This despite the fact that, on occasions, his state of health and his advanced age prevented him from traveling to the filming sets.

Married Joan Clayton Boocock on December 5, 1947. Their daughter Joan Celia "JC" Lee was born in 1950. His other daughter, Jan, was born in 1953 and died at three days of age.In 1981 the Lees moved to the West Coast. After 69 years of marriage, in July 2017, his wife Joan died of a stroke, at the age of 93.

One year later, on November 12, 2018, Stan Lee died of cardiorespiratory arrest caused by pneumonia, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, at the age of 95.

In May of the following year, his private agent, Keya Morgan, is arrested for elder abuse, charged with fraud and theft during the last years of Stan's life.

Work

Autographed photo by Stan Lee with her motto « Excellent!» 1975.

His creations include characters that are part of universal iconography such as Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, The Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers, Black Panther, Silver Surfer, and Nick Fury, in addition to his intrusion into the world of manga with Heroman and the script for the Ultimo series.

His charisma and creative ability influenced many later authors. Some of the characteristic features of his work are:

• The humanization of the characters, beyond their superheroic identity. To do this, he insists that all his heroes must have a weak point.
• A granilocuente and recharged language, which in the case of articles and advertising texts, becomes between self-parody and circus it.
• He gave a great freedom of movement to his drawers, through the so-called “Marvel Method”: Lee made a synopsis of the story, which passed to the drawer, and then wrote the dialogues based on the finished drawing. In certain cases, this made it difficult to know what part of Lee's story was, and what part of the sketch artist and what part was of the screenwriter.
• He insisted on calling his characters with a first name and surname (Peter Parker, Loki Laufeyson, Matt Murdock, Stephen Strange, Dum Dum Dugan, Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom, Curtis Connors, Bruce Banner, Scott Summers, Susan Storm, Reed Richards, Otto Octavius, Green Goblin, Silver Surfer, Warren Worthington, Pepper Pots, etc.

Books

• Lee, Stan; Mair, George (2002). Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-2800-8.
• Lee, Stan (1974). Origins of Marvel Comics. Marvel Entertainment Group. ISBN 978-0-7851-0551-0.
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  Stan Lee in 2007.
  Lee, Stan; David, Peter (2015). Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 1501107771.

Comics

DC Comics

• Detective Comics #600 (1989, text)
• Just Imagine Stan Lee creations:
  • 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

Simon & Schuster

• The Silver Surfer: The Ultimate Cosmic Experience114 p., Sept. 1978, ISBN 978-0-671-24225-1

Others

• Heroman
• How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

In other media

Cinema and television

In every single Marvel movie, Stan has always served as executive producer even though he doesn't make one of his famous cameo appearances.

Cameos in Marvel movies

With the exception of X-Men 2, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Fantastic Four and X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Stan Lee appeared in each of Marvel movies based on characters I helped create:

Movies in which it does not appear

• Movies Blade, Blade II, Blade: Trinity, The Punisher, Elektra, Man-Thing: the nature of fear, Ghost Rider, The Castigator: War Zone, Ghost Rider: Revenge Spirit, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine and Logan: Wolverine They are also based on Marvel Comics characters, but they were not created by Stan Lee; possible reason for the absence of a cameo of his.
• The reason your cameo is absent X-Men 2 It's unknown.
• In X-Men: first generationHe could not appear because the place of the shooting was far away and at his age he had no way of moving.
• In X-Men: days of the past futureHe had no time for his cameo already previously scheduled, because he had to attend a convention in Toronto on the same date. Then in an interview, I confess that after seeing the film he repented of not having made his cameo and said that X-Men: days of the past future and Captain America: The Winter Soldier They're the best movies Marvel has made and he's proud of them.
• The reason your cameo is absent 4 Fantastic It's unknown.
• In the little known film (also adaptation of a Marvel comic), Man-Thing: The Nature of FearStan Lee also performs one of his cameos, but not in person, but as a photograph on the Sheriff's bulletin board as one of the missing in the mysterious swamp.
• In Deadpool 2 His classic cameo does not appear; however, in a mural, a picture of him appears. It does not appear physically in the film due to complications in your health. However, Stan Lee performs a cameo in the short titled "No good deed" which serves as a trailer of the film.

Other appearances

Cinema and television

• Lee appears in an episode of the Muppets Babies childhood series, when the little muppets imagine being the superhero Spider-Man, and Lee is filled with the webs that come out of the comic that he is drawing.
• Lee appears in a mall teaching how to solve the love problems of a young man Jason Lee, through the private lives of his superheroes, in Kevin Smith's film, Mallrats (1995).
• Lee also appears in the film directed by Mark Hamill, Comic Book: The Movie (2004).
• She has a short cameo in the film starring Anne Hathaway The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004).
• Lee appears at the end of chapter 16 of the series Heroes (emitted on 19 February 2007 in the United States) on the role of a bus driver asking Hiro Nakamura if he travels alone or accompanied.
• Lee appears in chapter 16 of season 3, “The Great Acquisition”, of The Big Bang Theory Like himself.
• It also appears as itself in the “Bottom Ups” chapter Entourage (Temporada 6).
• Lee was the producer and host of the reality show Who Wants to Be a Superhero?, which was presented in the Sci Fi channel on July 27, 2006, which won a character named Feedback.
• Run the series Stan Lee's Superhumans, in the History channel, where he presents several people around the world with superhuman skills, with Daniel Browning Smith as an presenter.
• In The History Channel he became a special title Stan Lee, With Great Power in which Lee relates how he identifies himself with his creations, besides being a special dedicated to his life.
• In Chuck. He interprets himself as a CIA agent (Temporada 5 - Episode 7).
• On the webserie Video Game High School (VGHS) second season, by Freddie Wong on Youtube, makes its appearance before the video players of the institute.
• In the movie Kick Ass 2 Mindy mentions bad girls who are worse than Stan Lee's fan when watching a "Union J" video.
• In the series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. interprets a train passenger accompanied by two girls who speak with some of the protagonists of the series (Temporada 1 - Episode 13).
• In the Agent Carter series (Temporada 1 - episode 4).
• In the Marvel's Daredevil series a photograph of him appears at the police station (Temporada 1 - episode 13).
• In the Jessica Jones series, you can see the same photograph of him as a cop who appeared in Daredevil (Temporada 1 - episode 7).
• In the Luke Cage series, it appears in a poster that puts "See a crime. Report it!" (Temporada 1 - episode 12).
• In the Iron Fist series, in the final episode you can see a poster through the side of a building and the ad says SEA ORGULLOSO and next to the words a picture of Stan Lee illuminates the poster.
• In the series The Defenders appear in a poster like the Captain of the NYPD Irving Forbush, a role he has already played in the previous Marvel series in Netflix.
• In the series Cloak & Dagger appears in a painting at minute 8 of chapter 9.
• In the series The Gifted you can see interpreting a man coming out of Tex's Diner.
• In the Runaways series you can be seen interpreting the limo driver in the Metamorphosis episode (Temporada 1 - Episode 6).

Series and animated films

• One of Lee's first contributions to animation based on Marvel's properties was narrating the animated series of the 80s, The Unbelievable Hulk, The new adventures of Spider Man and Spider Man and His Amazing Friendsalways starting his story with an introduction car and ending it with This is Stan Lee saying, Excelsior!.
• Lee was also an animated storyteller. Silver Surfer televised in the late 1990s.
• Lee was an executive producer of the animated television series entitled Spider-Man: The Anniversary Series. He appeared as an animated character (and with his own voice), in the final episode titled «Farewell, Spider-Man» (Farewell, Spider Man). Spider-Man visits the parallel reality where Spider-Man is a fictional creation and talks to Stan thanking him for creating it. When Madame Web seeks Spider-Man to return to his reality, Stan says, "Who is this exotic woman?", his own wife, who gave the voice to Web. In the end, Spider-Man says "That Stan Lee you're talking about will be a great man" and Madame Web tells him "More than you think."
• In an episode of The Simpsons, "I am green with rage" (April 28, 2002), Lee gives voice to the animated Stan Lee, who is a regular visitor of the comic book store ("Stan Lee is back?» “Stan Lee has never left”). He asked if the seller spied Lynda Carter, the star of the 70s show, Wonder Woman and showed such signs of dementia as breaking a client's Batmobile toy trying to introduce a La Mole/Cosa action figure into it, and exclaiming that "it had improved," hiding DC Comics comics behind Marvel and believing Hulk. In a later episode, Lee's photo is seen along with many others on the wall behind the cash register, under the title "Access denied for life".
• Lee gives his voice and image back in the animated movie called Stan Lee Presents: The Condor from 2007, where he appears as a seller of a sweet shop, where he is present in a fight between Valdez and Taipan.
• He also makes a cameo in the second season The Spectacular Spider-Man making a gesture of approval with his hand to Spider-Man after he saved him.
• Lee was the English-speaking actor of the Mayor of Super-Héroe City The superhero squadron.
• In the anime series Heroman (created by him) appears as a cameo in certain parts of the chapters.
• Gives life to the character Stan (who was a janitor) in Ultimate Spider-Man. In fact, the design of this character is equal to the Stan of real life.
• It will also be as mayor in Vista Verde Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.
• His last appearance has been Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel being a Hot Dogs salesman. He is seen during the fight between The Avengers and Spider-Man against M.O.D.O.K., Red Skull, Venom and Whiplash in New York and Danville.
• Lee produced an animated comic-based film he wrote for the editorial Archie's Comics, entitled, "Stan Lee's Mighty 7: Beginnings"in 2014, he also gave the voice of his character that he himself appeared as such.
• In Teen Titans Go!'s DC Comics movie to the Movies, Lee makes a double cameo, putting his voice on himself. In the first appearance, he is sweeping behind the protagonists in his visit to the Warner studio, then approaching to speak on camera saying that he is Stan Lee making his subtle cameo until they inform him that the film is not Marvel and disappears quickly. In his second appearance, he slipped over the production car during the final chase of Batman to the Teen Titans, saying he's back because he doesn't care that the film is DC since what he likes is making cameos, to end up saying his well-known phrase "Excelsior" while the team turns him aside and goes on with the fight. This was his first and only cameo in a competition movie.
• In the 2017 Marvel's Spider-Man series, in the Origin episode, appears as a cameraman when Peter Parker goes to a fighting program.

• In the movie Spider-Man: A New Universe (2018), Lee sells a Spider-Man costume to Miles Morales. When Miles asks if the suit doesn't fit, Stan answers: "It always suits him," before revealing that he has a policy that there are no returns, no refunds.
• In the movie Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), appears in the form of Funko, when Ralph and Vanellope enter the Disney website.

Video Games

• Stan Lee narrates the video game of the year 2000 Spider-Man and its continuation in 2001 Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro.
• In the video game Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Stan lee is the narrator who appears in the beginning, development and the end telling moments of history.
• Stan Lee appears in the video game Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 like Senator Lieber (being the original name of Stan: Stanley Lieber).
• Re-interpret the Mayor of Super Hero City in the video game Marvel Super Hero Squad and his aftermath.
• It appears in the video game Dead Rising 2 as a survivor at the beginning of the game (feeling the same voice); however, he dies eaten by the zombies (when the scene was staged, Stan claimed to have laughed a lot).
• Stan Lee appears in the video game of the movie The Amazing Spider-Man as a playable character with the Spider-Man skills. Besides, he owns the floor where Peter Parker lives in the video game.
• It also appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes as a playable character.
• At the MMRPG Marvel Heroes appears giving voice to an arms dealer named Agent Lee who is in the Hellicarrier
• It appears in the video game The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as a comic book seller, dolls and objects related to Spider-Man, where Spidey in the city found pieces of comics and could see them in the shop but exclusively in English.
• It appears in the video game Spider-Man for PlayStation 4 of 2018, watching Peter and Mary Jane dine in a restaurant, commenting that she is her favorite couple.
• In Spider-Man: Miles Morales It appears in the form of a statue as a homage to his death with which he can interact to unlock a trophy, to which Miles says: "A real-world hero."

Comics

This is a list of Stan Lee's appearances as a character within a comic:

• All Winners Comics #2 (Year 1941): "Winners All"
• Astonishing #4 (Jun. 1951): "The Nightmare"
• The Fantastic Four #10 (Jan 1963): "The Return of Doctor Doom"
• Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos Special #6 (Aug. 1970): "Through the Past Darkly"
• Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #100 (Jul 1972): "100th Anniversary!"
• The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1964): "How Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Create Spider-Man"
• Strange Tales #123 (Aug. 1964): "The Birth of the Beetle"
• Daredevil #29 (Jun. 1967): Unmasked
• Daredevil Special #1 (Sept. 1967): "At the Stroke of Midnight"
• Fantastic Four Special #5 (Nov. 1967): "This is a Plot?"
• The Amazing Spider-Man Special #5 (Nov. 1968): "Here We Go-a-Plotting"
• Chamber of Darkness #2 (Dec. 1969) "The Day of the Red Death"
• Detective Comics #452 (Oct. 1975) "Crackdown on the Crime Exchange"
• X-Men #98 (Abr. 1976): "Merry Christmas, X-Men..."
• Fantastic Four #176 (Nov. 1976): "Improbable As It May Seem – The Impossible Man Is Back in Town!"
• What if? #11 (Oct. 1978): "What if the Fantastic Four Were the Original Marvel Bullpen?"
• Stan Lee Meets Superheroes (5 numbers from Nov. 2006)

Awards

Stan Lee received a host of awards for his work, including being formally inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995. Additionally, on January 4, 2011, Stan Lee unveiled a star named after him on the promenade of Hollywood fame.

• Los Angeles County declared 2 October 2009 as Stan Lee Day (Stan Lee Day).
• Long Beach City (California) declared October 2, 2009 as Stan Lee Day (Stan Lee Day).