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For a kid growing up in the late 90s in India, the lure of television was unavoidable. My favorite channel growing up was, of course, Cartoon Network. Amongst all the characters who used to appear on that channel, was a teenager who had to balance his schoolwork, homework and the secret life as Spider-Man. Spider-Man theme song as he fought the Sinister Six still is vivid in my memory. Soon after, I put Spider-Man at the local library at a luminary like Batman, Tintin and Asterix.
Little did I know that Stan Lee, creator of Spider-Man, predicted this outcome way back in 1977. "Kids are more visually oriented with. the advent of television and parents have a problem with that. Comic books at the very beginning of a child. Once they read comics and like it, they are equated with enjoyment and soon thereafter, they gravitate to other books. Nobody just reads comic books. Moreover, in Marvel comics, our vocabulary is of college level. If we want to use a word like 'proselytize' or 'misanthropic' or 'cataclysmic', we do. The children learn these words by their use in the sentence or with the help of a dictionary. "
Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel comics as we know it today, pbaded away on Monday at the age of 95. Born September 28, 1922, Lee was a voracious reader and was enamored with Shakespeare and Sherlock in equal measure. Right from a young age His first job was at a newspaper company which was written to people who were not yet dead. While Stan saw the irony in this situation, he did not stay on. He wanted to try out acting, but there was no money in it. So he took up a temporary job at Timely Comics, which paid him around 8-10 dollars a week to fill inkwells, erase pencil lines and get hungry employees. When Simon and Kirby (creators of Captain America) left the paper, Stan Lee became the interim editor of the magazine. He then stayed on as art director and editor-in-chief till 1972 and the comic book industry is the best for it.
The golden age of comic books ended soon after World War II and the industry was floundering in the 50s, till DC re-introduced The Flash in 1956 and subsequently put together an all-star team in Justice League of America.
Timely Comics wanted a response and asked Stan Lee to come up with a superhero team of their own. Working with Jack Kirby, who had rehired some years before, Lee created The Fantastic Four in November 1961. These were four characters who did not have a masked superhero identity, the leads (Mr.Fantastic and Invisible Girl) were in love, Human Torch was a teenager who wanted more money for the work and the Thing, an ugly block of rocks, wanted spotlight. With Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Bill Everett, John John Kirby, Steve Ditko, Bill Everett, John Romita and John Buscema. They were The Incredible Hulk, The Mighty Thor and Asgard (a huge influence on a certain George RR Martin who credits Marvel for his ASOIAF series), Black Panther (the first African -American hero in mainstream comics), Iron Man (who was born multi-trillion MCU franchise), The Avengers, Daredevil (the character who would be singularly responsible for the revival of DC's Batman in the 80s), Doctor Strange (whose artwork influenced and Marvel for years to come), X-Men, Marvel's second biggest selling comic title, and Spider-Man ("Everybody hated teenagers and so I felt let
Lee and his team at Marvel in the Silver Age of comic books, and at their peak, they would finish two books a week. They were able to do this thanks to the Marvel Method – it would be possible to read the story, and it would be possible to read the story and leave it to the story. This method, while highly successful for the company, resulted in the artists being shortchanged and leaving the company. But nothing could stop the Marvel juggernaut (with Lee turning publisher in 1972), he made comics rightfully deserved.
Lee's favorite character was Silver Surfer. There have been rumors that there is an unwritten rule in Marvel that no one would ever write the character except Stan Lee. It was through this pacifist that he would write some of the deepest philosophical quotes. Stan Lee's life and career – "Rather let me fail … never come back!"
For the man who made a career out of his cameos in Spider-Man 3 (2007) makes more sense. He says to Peter Parker, "You know, I guess one person really can make a difference." Truly, Stan. Excelsior!
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