Stan Lee

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Stan Lee

Lee at the 2014 Phoenix Comicon
Born Stanley Martin Lieber
(1922-12-28) December 28, 1922
New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality American
Area(s) Writer, editor, publisher, producer, actor, television host, author
Notable works
Notable collaborations
Awards
Spouse(s) Joan Clayton Boocock Lee (m. 1947–present)
Children 2
Signature
Signature of Stan Lee
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Stan Lee[1] (born Stanley Martin Lieber, December 28, 1922) is an American comic-book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. In collaboration with several artists, including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, the X-Men, and many other fictional characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. In addition, he headed the first major successful challenge to the industry's censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, and forced it to reform its policies. Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

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.

Early life

Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922 in New York City, U.S.[2] in the apartment of his Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents, Celia (née Solomon) and Jack Lieber, at the corner of West 98th Street and West End Avenue in Manhattan.[3][4] His father, trained as a dress cutter, worked only sporadically after the Great Depression,[3] and the family moved further uptown to Fort Washington Avenue,[5] in Washington Heights, Manhattan. When Lee was nearly 9, his only sibling, brother Larry Lieber, was born.[6] He said in 2006 that as a child he was influenced by books and movies, particularly those with Errol Flynn playing heroic roles.[7] By the time Lee was in his teens, the family was living in a one-bedroom apartment at 1720 University Avenue in The Bronx. Lee has described it as "a third-floor apartment facing out back", with him and his brother sharing a bedroom and his parents using a foldout couch.[6]

Lee attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.[8] In his youth, Lee enjoyed writing, and entertained dreams of one day writing the "Great American Novel".[9] He has said that in his youth he worked such part-time jobs as writing obituaries for a news service and press releases for the National Tuberculosis Center;[10] delivering sandwiches for the Jack May pharmacy to offices in Rockefeller Center; working as an office boy for a trouser manufacturer; ushering at the Rivoli Theater on Broadway;[11] and selling subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune newspaper.[12] He graduated from high school early, aged 16½ in 1939, and joined the WPA Federal Theatre Project.[13]

Career

Early career

With the help of his uncle Robbie Solomon,[14] Lee became an assistant in 1939 at the new Timely Comics division of pulp magazine and comic-book publisher Martin Goodman's company. Timely, by the 1960s, would evolve into Marvel Comics. Lee, whose cousin Jean[15] was Goodman's wife, was formally hired by Timely editor Joe Simon.[n 1]

His duties were prosaic at first. "In those days [the artists] dipped the pen in ink, [so] I had to make sure the inkwells were filled", Lee recalled in 2009. "I went down and got them their lunch, I did proofreading, I erased the pencils from the finished pages for them".[17] Marshaling his childhood ambition to be a writer, young Stanley Lieber made his comic-book debut with the text filler "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" in Captain America Comics #3 (May 1941), using the pseudonym Stan Lee,[18] which years later he would adopt as his legal name. Lee later explained in his autobiography and numerous other sources that he had intended to save his given name for more literary work. This initial story also introduced Captain America's trademark ricocheting shield-toss, which immediately became one of the character's signatures.[19]:11

He graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a backup feature, "'Headline' Hunter, Foreign Correspondent", two issues later. Lee's first superhero co-creation was the Destroyer, in Mystic Comics #6 (August 1941). Other characters he created during this period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comics include Jack Frost, debuting in USA Comics #1 (August 1941), and Father Time, debuting in Captain America Comics #6 (August 1941).[19]:12–13

When Simon and his creative partner Jack Kirby left late in 1941, following a dispute with Goodman, the 30-year-old publisher installed Lee, just under 19 years old, as interim editor.[19]:14 [20] The youngster showed a knack for the business that led him to remain as the comic-book division's editor-in-chief, as well as art director for much of that time, until 1972, when he would succeed Goodman as publisher.[21][22]

Lee entered the United States Army in early 1942 and served in the US in the Signal Corps, repairing telegraph poles and other communications equipment.[23] He was later transferred to the Training Film Division, where he worked writing manuals, training films, and slogans, and occasionally cartooning.[24] His military classification, he says, was "playwright"; he adds that only nine men in the US Army were given that title.[25] Vincent Fago, editor of Timely's "animation comics" section, which put out humor and funny animal comics, filled in until Lee returned from his World War II military service in 1945. Lee then lived in the rented top floor of a brownstone in the East 90s in Manhattan.[26]

In the mid-1950s, by which time the company was now generally known as Atlas Comics, Lee wrote stories in a variety of genres including romance, Westerns, humor, science fiction, medieval adventure, horror and suspense. In the 1950s, Lee teamed up with his comic book colleague Dan DeCarlo to produce the syndicated newspaper strip, My Friend Irma, based on the radio comedy starring Marie Wilson.[27] By the end of the decade, Lee had become dissatisfied with his career and considered quitting the field.[28][29]

Marvel revolution

In the late 1950s, DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz revived the superhero archetype and experienced a significant success with its updated version of the Flash, and later with super-team the Justice League of America. In response, publisher Martin Goodman assigned Lee to create a new superhero team. Lee's wife urged him to experiment with stories he preferred, since he was planning on changing careers and had nothing to lose.[28][29]

Lee acted on that advice, giving his superheroes a flawed humanity, a change from the ideal archetypes that were typically written for preteens. Before this, most superheroes were idealistically perfect people with no serious, lasting problems.[30] Lee introduced complex, naturalistic characters[31] who could have bad tempers, fits of melancholy, and vanity; they bickered amongst themselves, worried about paying their bills and impressing girlfriends, got bored or even were sometimes physically ill.

The first superhero group Lee and artist Jack Kirby created was the Fantastic Four. The team's immediate popularity[32] led Lee and Marvel's illustrators to produce a cavalcade of new titles. With Kirby primarily, Lee created the Hulk,[33] Thor,[34] Iron Man,[35] and the X-Men;[36] with Bill Everett, Daredevil;[37] and with Steve Ditko, Doctor Strange[38] and Marvel's most successful character, Spider-Man,[39] all of whom lived in a thoroughly shared universe.[40] Lee and Kirby gathered several of their newly created characters together into the team title The Avengers[41] and would revive characters from the 1940s such as the Sub-Mariner[42] and Captain America.[43]

Comics historian Peter Sanderson wrote that in the 1960s:

DC was the equivalent of the big Hollywood studios: After the brilliance of DC's reinvention of the superhero ... in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it had run into a creative drought by the decade's end. There was a new audience for comics now, and it wasn't just the little kids that traditionally had read the books. The Marvel of the 1960s was in its own way the counterpart of the French New Wave.... Marvel was pioneering new methods of comics storytelling and characterization, addressing more serious themes, and in the process keeping and attracting readers in their teens and beyond. Moreover, among this new generation of readers were people who wanted to write or draw comics themselves, within the new style that Marvel had pioneered, and push the creative envelope still further.[44]

Lee's revolution extended beyond the characters and storylines to the way in which comic books engaged the readership and built a sense of community between fans and creators.[45] He introduced the practice of regularly including a credit panel on the splash page of each story, naming not just the writer and penciller but also the inker and letterer. Regular news about Marvel staff members and upcoming storylines was presented on the Bullpen Bulletins page, which (like the letter columns that appeared in each title) was written in a friendly, chatty style. Lee has said that his goal was for fans to think of the comics creators as friends, and considered it a mark of his success on this front that, at a time when letters to other comics publishers were typically addressed "Dear Editor", letters to Marvel addressed the creators by first name (e.g. "Dear Stan and Jack").[23] By 1967, the brand was well-enough ensconced in popular culture that a March 3 WBAI radio program with Lee and Kirby as guests was titled "Will Success Spoil Spiderman" [sic].[46]

Throughout the 1960s, Lee scripted, art-directed and edited most of Marvel's series, moderated the letters pages, wrote a monthly column called "Stan's Soapbox", and wrote endless promotional copy, often signing off with his trademark motto, "Excelsior!" (which is also the New York state motto). To maintain his workload and meet deadlines, he used a system that was used previously by various comic-book studios, but due to Lee's success with it, became known as the "Marvel Method". Typically, Lee would brainstorm a story with the artist and then prepare a brief synopsis rather than a full script. Based on the synopsis, the artist would fill the allotted number of pages by determining and drawing the panel-to-panel storytelling. After the artist turned in penciled pages, Lee would write the word balloons and captions, and then oversee the lettering and coloring. In effect, the artists were co-plotters, whose collaborative first drafts Lee built upon. Lee recorded messages to the newly formed Merry Marvel Marching Society fan club in 1965.[47]

Following Ditko's departure from Marvel in 1966, John Romita Sr. became Lee's collaborator on The Amazing Spider-Man. Within a year, it overtook Fantastic Four to become the company's top seller.[48] Lee and Romita's stories focused as much on the social and college lives of the characters as they did on Spider-Man's adventures.[49] The stories became more topical, addressing issues such as the Vietnam War,[50] political elections,[51] and student activism.[52] Robbie Robertson, introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #51 (Aug. 1967) was one of the first African-American characters in comics to play a serious supporting role.[53] In the Fantastic Four series, the lengthy run by Lee and Kirby produced many acclaimed storylines as well as characters that have become central to Marvel, including the Inhumans[54][55] and the Black Panther,[56] an African king who would be mainstream comics' first black superhero.[57]

The story frequently cited as Lee and Kirby's finest achievement[58][59] is the three-part "Galactus Trilogy" that began in Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966), chronicling the arrival of Galactus, a cosmic giant who wanted to devour the planet, and his herald, the Silver Surfer.[60][61] Fantastic Four #48 was chosen as #24 in the 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time poll of Marvel's readers in 2001. Editor Robert Greenberger wrote in his introduction to the story that "As the fourth year of the Fantastic Four came to a close, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby seemed to be only warming up. In retrospect, it was perhaps the most fertile period of any monthly title during the Marvel Age."[62] Comics historian Les Daniels noted that "[t]he mystical and metaphysical elements that took over the saga were perfectly suited to the tastes of young readers in the 1960s", and Lee soon discovered that the story was a favorite on college campuses.[63] Lee and artist John Buscema launched The Silver Surfer series in August 1968.[64][65]

The following year, Lee and Gene Colan created the Falcon, comics' first African-American superhero in Captain America #117 (Sept. 1969).[66] Then in 1971, Lee indirectly helped reform the Comics Code.[67] The U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare had asked Lee to write a comic-book story about the dangers of drugs and Lee conceived a three-issue subplot in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (cover-dated May–July 1971), in which Peter Parker's best friend becomes addicted to pills. The Comics Code Authority refused to grant its seal because the stories depicted drug use; the anti-drug context was considered irrelevant. With Goodman's cooperation and confident that the original government request would give him credibility, Lee had the story published without the seal. The comics sold well and Marvel won praise for its socially conscious efforts.[68] The CCA subsequently loosened the Code to permit negative depictions of drugs, among other new freedoms.[69][70]

Lee also supported using comic books to provide some measure of social commentary about the real world, often dealing with racism and bigotry.[71] "Stan's Soapbox", besides promoting an upcoming comic book project, also addressed issues of discrimination, intolerance, or prejudice.[72][73]

In 1972, Lee stopped writing monthly comic books to assume the role of publisher. His final issue of The Amazing Spider-Man was #110 (July 1972)[74] and his last Fantastic Four was #125 (Aug. 1972).[75]

Later career

Signed photo of Lee at the 1975 San Diego Comic Con.

In later years, Lee became a figurehead and public face for Marvel Comics. He made appearances at comic book conventions around America, lecturing at colleges and participating in panel discussions. Lee and John Romita Sr. launched the Spider-Man newspaper comic strip on January 3, 1977.[76] Lee's final collaboration with Jack Kirby, The Silver Surfer: The Ultimate Cosmic Experience, was published in 1978 as part of the Marvel Fireside Books series and is considered to be Marvel's first graphic novel.[77] Lee and John Buscema produced the first issue of The Savage She-Hulk (Feb. 1980), which introduced the female cousin of the Hulk[78] and crafted a Silver Surfer story for Epic Illustrated #1 (Spring 1980).[79] He moved to California in 1981 to develop Marvel's TV and movie properties. He has been an executive producer for, and has made cameo appearances in, Marvel film adaptations and other movies. He occasionally returned to comic book writing with various Silver Surfer projects including a 1982 one-shot drawn by John Byrne,[80] the Judgment Day graphic novel illustrated by John Buscema,[81] the Parable limited series drawn by French artist Mœbius,[82] and The Enslavers graphic novel with Keith Pollard.[83] Lee was briefly president of the entire company, but soon stepped down to become publisher instead, finding that being president was too much about numbers and finance and not enough about the creative process he enjoyed.[84]

Peter Paul and Lee began a new Internet-based superhero creation, production, and marketing studio, Stan Lee Media, in 1998.[85] It grew to 165 people and went public through a reverse merger structured by investment banker Stan Medley in 1999, but, near the end of 2000, investigators discovered illegal stock manipulation by Paul and corporate officer Stephan Gordon.[86] Stan Lee Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February 2001.[87] Paul was extradited to the U.S. from Brazil and pleaded guilty to violating SEC Rule 10b-5 in connection with trading of his stock in Stan Lee Media.[88][89] Lee was never implicated in the scheme. In 2001, Lee, Gill Champion, and Arthur Lieberman formed POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment to develop film, television and video game properties. Lee created the risqué animated superhero series Stripperella for Spike TV. In 2004 POW! Entertainment went public via another reverse merger, structured again by investment banker Stan Medley. Also in 2004, Lee announced a superhero program that would feature Ringo Starr, the former Beatle, as the lead character.[90][91] Additionally, in August of that year, Lee announced the launch of Stan Lee's Sunday Comics,[92] a short-lived subscription service hosted by Komikwerks.com. On March 15, 2007, after Stan Lee Media had been purchased by Jim Nesfield, the company filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment for $5 billion, claiming Lee had given his rights to several Marvel characters to Stan Lee Media in exchange for stock and a salary.[93] On June 9, 2007, Stan Lee Media sued Lee; his newer company, POW! Entertainment; and POW! subsidiary QED Entertainment.[94][95]

In 2008, Lee wrote humorous captions for the political fumetti book Stan Lee Presents Election Daze: What Are They Really Saying?.[96] In April of that year, Brighton Partners and Rainmaker Animation announced a partnership POW! to produce a CGI film series, Legion of 5.[97] Other projects by Lee announced in the late 2000s included a line of superhero comics for Virgin Comics,[98] a TV adaptation of the novel Hero,[99] a foreword to Skyscraperman by skyscraper fire-safety advocate and Spider-Man fan Dan Goodwin,[100] a partnership with Guardian Media Entertainment and The Guardian Project to create NHL superhero mascots[101] and work with the Eagle Initiative program to find new talent in the comic book field.[102]

Lee promoting Stan Lee's Kids Universe at the 2011 New York Comic Con.

In October, Lee announced he would partner with 1821 Comics on a multimedia imprint for children, Stan Lee's Kids Universe, a move he said addressed the lack of comic books targeted for that demographic; and that he was collaborating with the company on its futuristic graphic novel Romeo & Juliet: The War, by writer Max Work and artist Skan Srisuwan.[103][104] At the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International, Lee announced his YouTube channel, Stan Lee's World of Heroes, which airs programs created by Lee, Mark Hamill, Peter David, Adrianne Curry, and Bonnie Burton among others.[105][106][107][108] Lee wrote the book, Zodiac released in January 2015, with Stuart Moore.[109] The film Stan Lee's Annihilator, based on a Chinese prisoner-turned-superhero named Ming and in production since 2013, is set for a 2015 release.[110][111][112]

In his later career, Lee's contributions continued to expand outside the style that he helped pioneer. An example of this is his first work for DC Comics in the 2000s, launching the Just Imagine... series, in which Lee re-imagined the DC superheroes Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and the Flash.[113] Manga projects involving Lee include Karakuridôji Ultimo, a collaboration with Hiroyuki Takei, Viz Media and Shueisha,[114] and Heroman, serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan with the Japanese company Bones.[115][116] In 2011, Lee started writing a live-action musical, The Yin and Yang Battle of Tao.[117]

This period also saw a number of collaborators honor Lee for his influence on the comics industry. In 2006, Marvel commemorated Lee's 65 years with the company by publishing a series of one-shot comics starring Lee himself meeting and interacting with many of his co-creations, including Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, the Thing, Silver Surfer, and Doctor Doom. These comics also featured short pieces by such comics creators as Joss Whedon and Fred Hembeck, as well as reprints of classic Lee-written adventures.[118] At the 2007 Comic-Con International, Marvel Legends introduced a Stan Lee action figure. The body beneath the figure's removable cloth wardrobe is a re-used mold of a previously released Spider-Man action figure, with minor changes.[119] Comikaze Expo, Los Angeles' largest comic book convention, was rebranded as Stan Lee's Comikaze Presented by POW! Entertainment in 2012.[120]

Charity work

The Stan Lee Foundation was founded in 2010 to focus on literacy, education and the arts. Its stated goals include supporting programs and ideas that improve access to literacy resources, as well as promoting diversity, national literacy, culture and the arts.[121]

Stan Lee has donated portions of his personal effects to the University of Wyoming at various times, between 1981 and 2001.[122]

Fictional portrayals

Lee and Kirby (bottom left) as themselves on the cover of The Fantastic Four #10 (Jan. 1963). Art by Kirby and Dick Ayers.

Stan Lee and his collaborator Jack Kirby appear as themselves in The Fantastic Four #10 (Jan. 1963), the first of several appearances within the fictional Marvel Universe.[123] The two are depicted as similar to their real-world counterparts, creating comic books based on the "real" adventures of the Fantastic Four.

Lee was parodied by Kirby in comics published by rival DC Comics as Funky Flashman.[124] Kirby later portrayed himself, Lee, production executive Sol Brodsky, and Lee's secretary Flo Steinberg as superheroes in What If #11 (Oct. 1978), "What If the Marvel Bullpen Had Become the Fantastic Four?", in which Lee played the part of Mister Fantastic. Lee has also made numerous cameo appearances in many Marvel titles, appearing in audiences and crowds at many characters' ceremonies and parties, and hosting an old-soldiers reunion in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #100 (July 1972). Lee appeared, unnamed, as the priest at Luke Cage and Jessica Jones' wedding in New Avengers Annual #1 (June 2006). He pays his respects to Karen Page at her funeral in Daredevil vol. 2, #8 (June 1998), and appears in The Amazing Spider-Man #169 (June 1977).

In 1994, artist Alex Ross rendered Lee as a bar patron on page 44 of Marvels #3.[125]

In Marvel's "Flashback" series of titles cover-dated July 1997, a top-hatted caricature of Lee as a ringmaster introduced stories that detailed events in Marvel characters' lives before they became superheroes, in special "-1" editions of many Marvel titles. The "ringmaster" depiction of Lee was originally from Generation X #17 (July 1996), where the character narrated a story set primarily in an abandoned circus. Though the story itself was written by Scott Lobdell, the narration by "Ringmaster Stan" was written by Lee, and the character was drawn in that issue by Chris Bachalo.

Lee and other comics creators are mentioned on page 479 of Michael Chabon's 2000 novel about the comics industry The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Chabon also acknowledges a debt to Lee and other creators on the book's Author's Note page.

On one of the last pages of Truth: Red, White & Black, Lee appears in a real photograph among other celebrities on a wall of the Bradley home.[126] Under his given name of Stanley Lieber, Stan Lee appears briefly in Paul Malmont's 2006 novel The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril.[127]

In Stan Lee Meets Superheroes, which Lee wrote, he comes into contact with some of his favorite creations.[118] Stan Lee and Jack Kirby appear as professors in Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #19.

In Lavie Tidhar's 2013 The Violent Century, Lee appears – under his birth name of "Stanley Martin Lieber" – as a historian of superhumans.[128]

Film and television appearances

Marvel television

Animation

Live-action

Marvel films

Lee has had cameo appearances in many Marvel film and television projects. A few of these appearances are self-aware and sometimes reference Lee's involvement in the creation of certain characters. Lee has been a credited executive producer on most Marvel film and television projects since the 1990 direct-to-video Captain America film.

Animation

Live-action

Warner Bros./DC properties

Stan Lee mourning on Dan Turpin's funeral. Above TV capture from original episode and below storyboard art by Bruce Timm and text comments by Paul Dini.

In the original February 7, 1998, broadcast airing of the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Apokolips... Now! Part 2" on the Kids' WB programming block, an animated Stan Lee was visible mourning the death of Daniel "Terrible" Turpin, a character based on his longtime Marvel Comics collaborator Jack Kirby. This shot was later modified to remove the likeness of Lee and other of background Marvel characters when the episode was released on DVD.[148][149]

Other film, TV, and video

Video games and applications

Personal life

Lee was raised in a Jewish family. In a 2002 survey of whether he believes in God, he stated, "Well, let me put it this way... [Pauses.] No, I'm not going to try to be clever. I really don't know. I just don't know."[175]

He married Joan Clayton Boocock on December 5, 1947,[176] and in 1949, the couple bought a two-story, three-bedroom home at 1084 West Broadway in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island, living there through 1952.[177] Their daughter Joan Celia "J.C." Lee was born in 1950. Another child, Jan Lee, died three days after delivery in 1953.[178] The Lees resided at 226 Richards Lane in the Long Island town of Hewlett Harbor, New York, from 1952 to 1980.[179] They also owned a two-bedroom condominium on the 14th floor of 220 East 63rd Street in Manhattan[180] from 1975 to 1980 and a vacation home on Cutler Lane in Remsenburg, New York.[181] For their move to the west coast in 1981, he and his wife bought a home in West Hollywood, California previously owned by comedian Jack Benny's radio announcer, Don Wilson.[182]

In late September 2012, Lee underwent a surgical operation to insert a pacemaker into his body, cancelling planned appearances at conventions.[183][184]

Lee's favorite authors include Stephen King, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Harlan Ellison.[185]

Filmography

Film

Year Film Role Notes
1973 L'An 01 Cameo
1989 The Trial of the Incredible Hulk Jury Foreman TV movie
1990 The Ambulance Himself
1995 Mallrats Himself
2000 X-Men Hotdog Stand Vendor
2000 Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV Narrator (voice)
2000 The Adventures of Cinderella's Daughter Priest
2002 Spider-Man Man Saving Girl Cameo
2003 Daredevil Man Crossing Street
2003 Hulk Security Guard
2004 Spider-Man 2 Man Saving Innocent Person
2004 Comic Book: The Movie Himself
2004 The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement Three Stooges Wedding Guest
2005 Fantastic Four Willie Lumpkin Cameo
2005 Conflict Trevor Short film
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand Waterhose Man Cameo
2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Himself
2007 Spider-Man 3 Man in Times Square
2007 Mosaic Stanley
2007 The Condor Grandfather
2008 Iron Man Himself (Hugh Hefner) Cameo
2008 The Incredible Hulk Hapless Citizen
2010 Iron Man 2 Himself (Larry King)
2011 Thor Pickup Truck Driver
2011 Captain America: The First Avenger General
2012 The Avengers Random Citizen
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man Librarian
2013 Jay & Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie Himself (voice)
2013 Iron Man 3 Beauty Pageant Judge
2013 Thor: The Dark World Mental Ward Patient (credited as "Himself")
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier[186] Smithsonian Guard
2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2[187] Graduation Guest
2014 Guardians of the Galaxy[188] Xandarian Ladies' Man
2014 Big Hero 6 Fred's Dad (voice) Post-credits cameo
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron Military veteran Cameo
2015 Ant-Man Bartender
2016 Deadpool Stripclub MC
2016 Captain America: Civil War FedEx delivery worker
2016 X-Men: Apocalypse
2016 Yoga Hosers
2016 Doctor Strange

Television

Year Series Role Notes
1981–1983 Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Narrator (voice) 15 episodes; Also Executive producer
1982–1983 The Incredible Hulk Narrator (voice) 13 episodes; Also Executive producer
1989 X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men Himself/Narrator (voice) Episode: "Pilot"
Muppet Babies Himself (voice) Episode: "Comic Capers"
1991–1992 The Comic Book Greats Himself (host) 13 episodes; Also Creator, executive producer
1998 Spider-Man Himself (voice) Episode: "Spider Wars, Chapter 2: Farewell Spider-Man"; Also Executive producer
1994 Fantastic Four Himself (voice) 2 episodes; Also Executive producer
1997 The Incredible Hulk Cliff Walters (voice) Episode: "Down Memory Lane"; Also Executive producer
2002 The Simpsons Himself (voice) Episode: "I Am Furious"
2003 Spider-Man: The New Animated Series Frank Elson (voice) Episode: "Mind Games: Part 1"
Stripperella Jerry (voice) Episode: "Crime Doesn't Pay... Seriously, It Doesn't"; Also Creator, Executive producer
2003–2004 Madtv Himself 2 episodes
2006 Identity Himself Episode: "1.4"
2006–2007 Who Wants to Be a Superhero? Himself (host) 14 episodes; Also Creator, Executive Producer
2007–2013 Robot Chicken Himself (voice) 3 episodes
2007 Heroes Bus Driver Episode: "Unexpected"
2009 The Spectacular Spider-Man Stan (voice) Episode: "Blueprints"; Also Executive producer
2009–2011 The Super Hero Squad Show Mayor of Superhero City (voice) 12 episodes; Also Creator, executive producer
2010 Black Panther General Wallace (voice) Episode: "Pilot"
The Big Bang Theory Himself Episode: "The Excelsior Acquisition"
Entourage Himself Episode: "Bottoms Up"
Nikita Hank Excelsior Episode: "The Guardian"
2010–present Stan Lee's Superhumans Himself (co-host) Also Creator, Executive Producer
2011 Eureka Himself Episode: "Glimpse"
The Guild Himself Episode: "Costume Contest"
2011-2014 Avengers Assemble! Future Tony / Future Tony Stark Episodes: "The Future!", "Stop & Frisk", "Copyright Infringement"
2012–present Ultimate Spider-Man Stan the Janitor (voice) Recurring Role
2013 Mad Bird Scientist, Papa Smurf, The Amazing Man-Spider Announcer (voice) Episode: "Papa / 1600 Finn"
Phineas and Ferb New York City Hot Dog Vendor (voice) Episode: "Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel"
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle Himself 3 Episodes
Fangasm Himself[189] Episode: "Beam Me Up, Stan"
Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum Overload Hot Dog Vendor (voice) Episode: "Assault, Off-Asgard!"
2013–present Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. Stan the Salesman (voice) Recurring Role
2014 The Simpsons Himself (voice) Episode: "Married to the Blob"
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Debonair Gentleman Episode: "T.R.A.C.K.S."
Hell's Kitchen Himself Season 12 Episode 18: 5 Chef's Compete"
Marvel 75 Years: From Pulp to Pop! Himself
2015 Agent Carter Shoeshine customer Episode: "The Blitzkrieg Button
2015 Daredevil Officer Lee (Photograph) Episode: "World on Fire"
2015 Jessica Jones Officer Lee (Photograph) Episode: "AKA Top Shelf Perverts"
2016 Captain America: 75 Heroic Years Himself
2016 Stan Lee's Lucky Man Himself Season 1 Episode 1: More Yang Than Yin"

Video games

Year Video Game Voice
2000 Spider-Man Narrator
2001 Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro Narrator
2009 Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 Senator Lieber
Marvel Super Hero Squad Mayor of Superhero City
2010 Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Narrator
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man Himself
2013 Lego Marvel Super Heroes Himself
2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Himself
2014 Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff Himself
2016 Lego Marvel Avengers Himself

Awards and nominations

Year Award Nominated work Result
1994 The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame[190] Won
1995 Mohit Rao Hall of Fame[191] Won
2000 Burbank International Children's Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award Won
2002 Saturn Award The Life Career Award Won
2008 National Medal of Arts[192] Won
2009 Hugo Award Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation- Iron Man Nominated
2009 USC Scripter Award Scripter Award- Iron Man Nominated
2009 Scream Awards[193] Comic-Con Icon Award Won
2011 Hollywood Walk of Fame[194] Won
2012 Savannah Film and Video Festival Lifetime Achievement Award Won
2012 Visual Effects Society Awards Lifetime Achievement Award Won
2012 Producers Guild of America[195] Vanguard Award Won

Comics bibliography

Lee's comics work includes:[79]

DC

Marvel

Simon & Schuster

Other

See also

References

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Notes

  1. ↑ Lee's account of how he began working for Marvel's predecessor, Timely, has varied. He has said in lectures and elsewhere that he simply answered a newspaper ad seeking a publishing assistant, not knowing it involved comics, let alone his cousin Jean's husband, Martin Goodman:
    I applied for a job in a publishing company ... I didn't even know they published comics. I was fresh out of high school, and I wanted to get into the publishing business, if I could. There was an ad in the paper that said, "Assistant Wanted in a Publishing House." When I found out that they wanted me to assist in comics, I figured, 'Well, I'll stay here for a little while and get some experience, and then I'll get out into the real world.' ... I just wanted to know, 'What do you do in a publishing company?' How do you write? ... How do you publish? I was an assistant. There were two people there named Joe Simon and Jack Kirby – Joe was sort-of the editor/artist/writer, and Jack was the artist/writer. Joe was the senior member. They were turning out most of the artwork. Then there was the publisher, Martin Goodman... And that was about the only staff that I was involved with. After a while, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby left. I was about 17 years old [sic], and Martin Goodman said to me, 'Do you think you can hold down the job of editor until I can find a real person?' When you're 17, what do you know? I said, 'Sure! I can do it!' I think he forgot about me, because I stayed there ever since.[16]
    However, in his 2002 autobiography, Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee he writes:
    My uncle, Robbie Solomon, told me they might be able to use someone at a publishing company where he worked. The idea of being involved in publishing definitely appealed to me. ... So I contacted the man Robbie said did the hiring, Joe Simon, and applied for a job. He took me on and I began working as a gofer for eight dollars a week....
    Joe Simon, in his 1990 autobiography The Comic Book Makers, gives the account slightly differently: "One day [Goodman's relative known as] Uncle Robbie came to work with a lanky 17-year-old in tow. 'This is Stanley Lieber, Martin's wife's cousin,' Uncle Robbie said. 'Martin wants you to keep him busy.'" In an appendix, however, Simon appears to reconcile the two accounts. He relates a 1989 conversation with Lee:
    Lee: I've been saying this [classified-ad] story for years, but apparently it isn't so. And I can't remember because I['ve] said it so long now that I believe it."
    ...
    Simon: "Your Uncle Robbie brought you into the office one day and he said, 'This is Martin Goodman's wife's nephew.' [sic] ... You were seventeen years old."

    Lee: "Sixteen and a half!"

    Simon: "Well, Stan, you told me seventeen. You were probably trying to be older.... I did hire you."

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