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It highlights how, starting with Fantastic Four #1 in 1961, Lee and collaborators reshaped how comics were created, promoted, and sold, and how the “Marvel Method” made artists co-writers. The text also reflects on controversies, creative partnerships, and his lasting fan legacy through Marvel films.","The Comics & Graphic Novel Bulletin of  \n\n|  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | STAN LEE 1922-2018 |  |\n| |  |  |\n\n| Stan Lee was born Stanley Lieber , December 28, 1922. He changed his name to “Stan Lee” once he be- |\n| --- |\n| gan working in the nascent comic book industry. Stanley had dreams of writing the Great American Novel and wanted to protect his future reputation from the bad press that tainted funnybooks. Stan got his gig at what was then Timely Comics the old-fashioned way: he was related to publisher Martin Goodman by marriage. Promoted to interim editor-in-chief in 1941, Lee didn’t leave the position until he was kicked upstairs to the Publisher’s office in 1972. By then, he had seen the company—under the names Timely, Atlas and eventually Marvel Comics—ride a rollercoaster of success and failure (see sidebar far right) . During the company’slowest point in the late ‘50s, Lee wanted to quit comics. He considered himself a hack who had wasted his life cranking out whatever schlock was selling at the time. But at his beloved wife Joan’s urging, he stayed and began writing comics his way. Beginning in 1961 with Fantastic Four \\#1, Lee and his artistic partners changed the way comic books were created, promoted and even sold (see right) . By the time he quit writing, Marvel was leading the industry in sales and influence. Later attempts to re-enter the comics biz were frustrated by both creative and business issues. But Lee went on to garner a new generation of fans with his cameosin the block-busting series of Marvel films. Despite scandals near the end of his life, Stan ”the Man” Lee is assured of his place in the pantheon of popular culture. |\n\nWhen I was a little boy, I wanted to be Stan Lee when I grew up. Unlike most comics-crazed kids of the Sixties, I didn’t pretend to be the amazing Spider-Man. I pretended to be the guy who wrote The Amazing Spider-Man. That guy edited all the other comics, too, even the ones for girls and little kids. Inspired by Stan’s example, I made up my own stable of characters—Robo-Man, Time Patrol, the Leaper—and line of comics—WWII, Mod Romance, Hawkeye Kid–complete with imitations of Marvel’s promotional “Bullpen Bulletins Page” featuring my version of Lee’s gabby “Soapbox”editorials. Little Billy Widener was quite the imaginary publishing magnate. And as the very existence of this handout will testify, I continued to be oneof the thousands of people influenced by the man they called “The Man”.  \nActually, it was Stan who called himself“the Man”, and Jack Kirby “the King”and Don Heck “Dandy”, all part of the ballyhoo Lee used to sell not only his  \ncomics, but the people and company that made them. This was nothing new. Nothing Lee did was new. He just put it all together in a new way. With each editor lording over his own fiefdom, his competitors at DC were hedgehogs. Stan Lee was the fox, who had written every kind of comic book there was (see photo below left, circa 1954) . He combined the bathos of love comics, the levity of teen comics, the self-awareness of parody comics, the law-n-order violence of adventure comics and the antisocial weirdness of horror comics into a new kind of comic book formula. It revolutionized superheroes. It also worked for other genres, from commandos to barbarians to talking ducks, as shown by the 1976 photo far right of Lee with his Art Director, John Romita Sr. Lee also shared and revived the two-fisted liberal humanism of the old Lev Gleason and EC brands, tapping into the youth movement shaking up the world from Peoria to Paris to Peking.  \nAnd more importantly, Lee used EC’s cultish relationship with its readers as a template for a new kind of comics fandom. This audience not only never “outgrew” comics, but mutated like one of Lee’s irradiated heroes into the artbased global culture calling itself“nerddom”. Of course, Lee didn’t do it alone. Working with dozens of artists, he always had a favorite, a partner. 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