Stan Lee is known as the father of Marvel, but he was not involved in painting himself. He only provides storylines and writes dialogue. Stan Lee's title is comic book writer, editor, and publisher, but not painter.
Marvel's big name cartoonist is Jack Kobe Jach Kirby. Stan Lee's story, Bryant's painting, together shaped Marvel. Unfortunately, the relationship between the two broke down in their later years.
● Marvel's father Stan Lee was Jewish and came to the United States to make a living after being persecuted in Romania.
● At the age of 17, Stan Lee graduated from high school and began to join an anime company run by Jewish relatives, participating in the creation and serving as the editor-in-chief.
Stan Lee is not his real name, and the reason he hides his real name is because he doesn't think comic writing is something to be proud of. His real name is Stanley Martin Lieber.
● Stan Lee's favorite writers since childhood were humorist Mark Twain, detective novelist Conan Doyle, and science fiction writer Verne.
● As a young man, Stan Lee wrote eulogies for the wealthy in New York. Because it was too depressed, he resigned and did not do it.
● In 1943, 21-year-old Stan Lee joined the army and joined the Signal Corps because of his work in comics, responsible for propaganda. The soldier training textbook that he adapted, due to the addition of cartoons, made it easy for soldiers to understand, can reduce the training time by 50%.
During World War II, Stan Lee didn't spend a day on the front lines, he spent his time in his office. In his spare time, he wrote novels and published them to make money, and bought himself a new car when he retired from the army.
● In 1954, the American Comic Book Magazine Association (CMAA) introduced a comic book publishing code that prohibited the publication of pornographic, bloody, and horror content.
● In 1961, Stan Lee teamed up with Jack Kobe Bryant to create the Fantastic Four (Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Thunderbolt Fire, Stone Man). This year Stan Lee was 39 years old.
● "Hulk" was originally designed to be gray, but the color was not adjusted when printing, and it became green.
● Spider-Man, created by Stan Lee in 1962, first appeared. This year Stan Lee was 40 years old. 15 years later, Spider-Man appeared on television. 40 years later, in 2002, Spider-Man made it to the big screen.
● Spider-Man-themed anime comic strip, with 667 episodes created by Stan Lee's team from 1963 to 2018.
In the 1980s, Stan Lee's speech appearance fee was $3,000.
● In 1975, Stan Lee tested the waters on playboys for a soft pornographic comic strip.
Stan Lee has hosted american reality shows: Who Wants to Be a Superhero?
Although Stan Lee has created many Marvel images, he is an employee of Marvel and does not own the copyright to these images. He later sued Marvel for this, and after out-of-court mediation, he received $10 million.
● Stan Lee began to officially enter the film and television industry.
● Stan Lee's home in New York was stolen and Mrs. Stan Lee's jewelry was lost, prompting the family's relocation to Los Angeles.
● Spider-Man-themed movies, a total of 11. The most profitable was 2002's Spider-Man, which cost $130 million and grossed $820 million worldwide (about 5 billion yuan).
● Stan Lee has played a minor role in many Marvel films.
For decades, Stan Lee didn't go to the barbershop. It was his wife who cut his hair.
● Stan Lee credits his mother for his life's achievements. It was his mother who gave him self-confidence.
● 2008 Stan Lee receives the National Medal of Merit (Arts).
● In 2009, the U.S. Disney Company bought the entire Marvel for $4 billion. As of 2019, Disney has generated $18 billion in box office revenue from the Marvel films it produced.
● 2011 Stan Lee receives star honors on Hollywood's Avenue of Glory.
• Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan admitted to getting up early to read the newspaper, reading Spider-Man comics first, and then watching serious news.
Marvel's father Stan Lee was 95 years old when he died in 2018.