Stan Lee info

[Generic Eric]

Hello, I'm doing an art project for a class and I need some opinions and information on Stan 'the Man' Lee.

1. In your personal opinion, what comic book characters created or co-created by Stan Lee are the most signifigant to his legacy. what are your personal favorites.

2. Who are Stan Lee's most important colaborators.

3. What other cool trivia and acomplishments by Stan Lee that stick out in your mind.


The project I'm working on is going to be a portrait coolage of Stan Lee and it will feature several of his classic literary characters and maybe some other interesting aspects about him. I will look up some information on wikipedia later, but I feel this forum is the best place to start for this knowledge and trivia. So true believers share with your comic book expertise.

[Chinchalinchin]

Stan Lee was actually a tag used by 40+ writers scattered around the world, each contributing to "his" career at different points. The Stan Lee you see in pictures is actually a paid actor, George Bernard Jenkins III of Greensboro, North Carolina.

Sorry to break it to you this way, but you had to know.

[Generic Eric]

Stan Lee was actually a tag used by 40+ writers scattered around the world, each contributing to "his" career at different points. The Stan Lee you see in pictures is actually a paid actor, George Bernard Jenkins III of Greensboro, North Carolina.

Sorry to break it to you this way, but you had to know.

Jeez, Mr. Allen Smythee I'm just gonna have to ignore you.:cool:

[The Foreigner]

1. In your personal opinion, what comic book characters created or co-created by Stan Lee are the most signifigant to his legacy. what are your personal favorites.

The Fantastic Four are, no doubt, the most important-- His first creations, and the characters that began the Marvel Age. Spider-Man is also significant, in that he's arguably the most recognizable comic character outside of Superman and Batman. Lee also co-created The X-Men, The Hulk, Captain America*, Iron Man, Daredevil, and many others that have affected the industry in many ways. My personal favorite is probably Daredevil, because that character has been blessed by having some of the greatest runs in all of comics.

2. Who are Stan Lee's most important colaborators.

Jack Kirby is #1, hands down. Steve Ditko and their falling out over the Green Goblin's identity is pretty significant as well.

3. What other cool trivia and acomplishments by Stan Lee that stick out in your mind.

He has a mustache?

*EDIT: Cap was in fact created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby years earlier, but Stan did re-introduce the character into The Avengers.

[Generic Eric]

He has a mustache?

It is a pretty awesome mustache.

[spideyrules99]

I thought Capt A was a round long before Stan Lee.

[Generic Eric]

I thought Capt A was a round long before Stan Lee.

I believe he was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.

[Alan2099]

I thought Capt A was a round long before Stan Lee.
Writing him was Stan's first gig though.

[The Foreigner]

Sorry about the Cap remark; I was thinking about Stan Lee and that he wrote The Avengers and jotted down Cap as one of Stan Lee's creations, when in fact he was around during the Golden Age (Although he was co-created by Jack Kirby). Thanks for the correction.

[StoneGold]

3. What other cool trivia and acomplishments by Stan Lee that stick out in your mind.


He wears a toupee.

[StoneGold]

I thought Capt A was a round long before Stan Lee.
For like two issues. Stan's first published work was a filler text piece in Cap #3 in 1941.

[david r]

1. In your personal opinion, what comic book characters created or co-created by Stan Lee are the most signifigant to his legacy. what are your personal favorites.

Stan also co-created the Inhumans, Black Panther, Silver Surfer, Doctor Doom, Galactus, Magneto, Mephisto, the Skrulls, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Ant-Man, Nick Fury, Hawkeye, and the Marvel version of Thor.

2. Who are Stan Lee's most important colaborators.

Jack Kirby was his main collaborator. But also Steve Ditko and John Buscema.

3. What other cool trivia and acomplishments by Stan Lee that stick out in your mind.


Stan always said he really wanted to write the Great American Novel. He just stuck around in comics to pay the bills. He thought comics would be dead a few years down the road, and then he could pen his masterpiece. The success of the 1960s changed that.

Unfortunately, I feel Stan Lee takes far too much credit for his "creations". Both Kirby and Ditko stopped working for him and vowed never to speak to him again, because Lee continually told the press how HE created all these characters. And he wouldn't give credit to Kirby. Stan would lavish praise on them for their artistic work, but not as fellow creators for the FF, Spider-Man, etc.

[Generic Eric]

He wears a toupee.

I guess that explains why his hair is always 2 colors in every pictures I see of him:D

[StoneGold]

Jack Kirby was his main collaborator. But also Steve Ditko and John Buscema.

Buscema? Sure you aren't thinking of Romita? I guess he did the Silver Surfer book with Stan, but somehow, I think of Buscema as more of a Roy Thomas collaborator, while Romita has the Spidey run.

[MakeshiftHero]

3. What other cool trivia and acomplishments by Stan Lee that stick out in your mind.
1.He's bipolar but has a rare case of the diesease where he never gets depressed.

2. He took steroids when he was in the minor leagues for baseball and would ocasionaly have roid rages and freak out (later termed "hulk out") then he'd come to and everytime he woke up he had nothing on but his purple baseball pants. This of corse lead to the creation of The Golem, only to be renamed The Hulk cause everyone told him "Golems don't wear clothes dumbass!"

3. His wife was what inspired him to create Galactus.

4. One time he challanged "Galactus" during their sunday outing at cici's pizza. He said that the all you can eat buffet did not enclude the pizza that "you can stuff in your ziplock bagged pockets to take home to live on for the next 3 days". He did this because he noticed a hungry blind girl that could only get half a peperoni on her plate after his "wife" kept going back to the serving line. In the end Mrs. Lee was angry with her servant and confined him to the store and the people in it that he seemed to care for more than herself and left him there taking the family car, leaving Stan without a way to get back home. This ofcorse lead to the creation of the S. S.

[Sorcerer Supreme]

Pretty much everything you need to know on Stan Lee is here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee