He created Spider-man, The Incredible Hulk, The X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, The Avengers Thor, Dr. Strange and just about every villain that goes with the super-hero. Known to millions as the co-creator of marvel comics. He made an age in history called “The marvel age of comics.” The man that I am talking about is Stan “The Man” Lee. So how much do you know about the legendary icon? We will see as I give you information about him in my book report called “The Man behind the Books.” Stan Lee was only 16 years old when he joined marvel comics. Only one year had passed when he became the editor in the business, making him the youngest person to ever hold a position as editor at such a young age. When World War II rolled around Stan Lee left marvel to join the army for three years. During that time the army had made Stan Lee write training films and manuals for all branches of military service. With this, the army gave Stan Lee the military classification “Play Write.” He had the distinction of becoming one of the 9 men in the army with that code name. This showed that Stan Lee ha a talent for writing when he was very young. After a few years at Marvel Comic Stan Lee was getting mad with the people who were telling him what to write and when to write it. Stan Lee told his wife that he wanted to quit. Stan’s wife said if you want to quit so bad just write one brand new story, if they fire you because isn’t any good then that means that you won’t have to quit. So Stan though of a group of super hero’s that were a family and that is when the fantastic four was born. Marvel loved Stan’s idea and asked him to write more of his own stories this way! After more than forty years and many memorable characters Stan Lee is now the chairman of Marvel comic and Marvel films. Lee is known to millions as the man who propelled Marvel comics to its permanent position in the comic book industry. He created hundreds of legendary characters that are known world wide. It was in the early 60’s that San Lee ushered what is known as “The Marvel Age of Comics” or the “Silver Age of Comics.” Stan Lee even unleashed new styles of old comic favorites such as Captain America, The Human Torch and The Sub Mariner. Stan Lee spent 25 years as marvels editor, art director and head writer. Stan Lee wrote as many as five complete comic books per week and as little as two per week. Stan Lee’s output in marvel may be the largest published work by any single writer. Stan Lee even wrote his own newspaper features, radio and television scripts and screenplays. When Stan Lee was publisher of Marvel Comics by 1972, his comics were the nation’s biggest sellers. By 1972 Stan Lee had brought Spider-Man into the newspapers in the form of a syndicated strip. His 7 – day – a week feature which he wrote and edited since its inception, is today the most successful of all the syndicated adventure strips, appearing in more then 500 newspapers worldwide. Stan Lee has write many best – selling books such as: The Origins of Marvel Comics, The Silver Surfer, How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way, Bring on the Bad Guys and The Super Hero Women. Stan Lee recently wrote the introduction to the best – selling “Coffee – Table Book” Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the Worlds Greatest Comics. In 1981, Marvel made an animation studio on the west coast. So Stan Lee moved to Los Angeles to become creative head of Marvel’s cinematic adventures. Soon on Saturday morning television you could watch Spider-Man and The Hulk this paved the way for Marvel’s entry into live action feature films. Stan Lee has recently co – executive producer of the syndicated Marvel Action Hour staring The Fantastic Four, Iron Man and the Saturday morning series The X – Men. He also acted as the Executive Producer of UPN’s The Incredible Hulk. Stan Lee continues to write his famous weekly column “Stan’s Soapbox”. He also continues his daily newspaper comic strip Spider-Man. Stan Lee surprised many by going to D.C. (another comic producer) and making his own origins to the most famous D.C. Super Hero’s in a mine series comic called “Just Imagine if Stan Lee did D.C. Stan Lee recently ended his exclusive agreement to Marvel Comics, and launched Stan Lee.net an online company devoted to revolutionizing comics. Stan Lee’s characters explore the human spirit dwelling in weakness and darkness that is humanity while showing the hero that is inside of us all. Stan Lee’s heroes are plagued with flaws and weaknesses just like us. That is why so many people can relate to Stan’s work. Stan’s hero’s most or the time triumph over evil – and are always there to help – but sometimes it comes at great costs. Stan Lee has created so many characters I know that each person can relate to one! So in closing only a handful of mythmakers achieve immortality – Stan Lee has achieved more.
