I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.
I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.
I love Marvel and the people there. I'm glad I'm still part of it.
To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.
Wolverine is one of the best characters ever created in fiction. I blew it by not coming up with the idea first.
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
In 2005, won the Hero of Literacy Award at the Family Literacy Fair.
Won the Sparky Award in 2000.
In 2002, won Life Career Award from Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.
n 1971, Lee indirectly reformed the Comics Code.
He is of the Jewish realigon.
Stan Lee: Wolverine is one of the best characters ever created in fiction. I blew it by not coming up with the idea first.
Stan Lee: I love Marvel and the people there. I'm glad I'm still part of it.
Stan Lee: I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.
As a teen he worked such part-time jobs as writing obituaries for a news service and press releases for the National Tuberculosis Center; 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; and selling subscriptions to the New York Herald-Tribune newspaper.
Lee returned from his World War II military service in 1945.
In 2005 POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment, Inc. was founded by Stan Lee, together with Gill Champion and Arthur Lieberman.
In 2001, he did the narration for the film "Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV," under the pseudonym "Peter Parker."
He create an online animation studio, Stan Lee Media, in 1999.
Lee enlisted in the U.S. Army in early 1942 and served stateside in the Signal Corps, writing manuals, training films, and slogans, and occasionally cartooning.
He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.
Stan Lee: I felt someday I'd write the Great American Novel and I didn't want to use my real name on these silly little comics. [about why he changed his name to Stan Lee to begin with.]
In 2002 Lee published his autobiography "Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee."
He has it written into his contract that in any movie based on a Marvel character that he is credited with creating or working on, he gets a cameo in the movie version of the comic. Aka Hot Dog Vendor in "X-Men," Security Guard in "Hulk", Bystander in "Spider-Man", Old Man at Crossing in "Daredevil," Man Dodging Debris in "Spider-Man 2," Willie Lumpkin in "Fantastic Four," and Waterhose Man in "X-Men 3." He did not, however, appear in "X-Men 2."
In 1972 he became publisher and editorial director of Marvel Comics.
His three most famous comic book creations are: Fantastic Four (Debut November 1961), the Incredible Hulk (Debut May 1962) and the Amazing Spiderman (Debut August 1962 in 'Amazing Fantasy' # 15).
He ended his weekly "Stan's Soapbox" column (which appeared in every Marvel comic book) with the phrase "Excelsior."
He is the brother of Larry Lieber.
He is married to Joan Lee (5 December 1947 - present) with two children.
He first began to work on comics in 1941 on the 3rd issue of Captain America.
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