Excelsior! - The Amazing Life of Stan Lee

Informationen zum Autor Stan Lee (1922–2018) began his long career with wartime Timely Comics, but "the Man" made comic book history with Fantastic Four #1 , harbinger of a bold new perspective in comic book writing that endures to this day. With some of the industry’s greatest artists, he introduced hero after hero in The Incredible Hulk , The Amazing Spider-Man , The Uncanny X-Men , and more, forming a shared universe for rival publishers to measure themselves against. After a lifetime’s worth of writing and editing, Lee was involved in movies and television via his company POW! Entertainment. He was Marvel’s chairman emeritus and best-known public representative. Klappentext The man behind the X-Men, Spider Man, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other super-heroes tells his own Marvel-ous story in a book packed with punch, humor, insider info, and a gallery of archival works, some never before published. 50 photos & illustrations. Introduction Stan's Soapbox How did it happen? How did I get into this? Me, a guy who's almost always written fantasy, suddenly having to deal with facts-the facts of my life. Although, come to think of it, those facts themselves are pretty fantastic. If I hadn't lived the whole thing I might not even believe it. And, if you wanna talk about irony -- ! During those strange, struggling, early years, I wallowed in embarrassment because I was a mere comicbook writer. And now, because of those same humble comicbooks, here I am the featured star of a real, grown-up book, the hero of my own life story. There's probably a moral hidden there. Feel free to search for it as we roll along. To tell the truth, I can't wait to read the pages that follow. Since so much of the past has managed to homogenize in the plotcluttered recesses of my mind, it's a chance to rediscover little truths about my own inscrutable self and the titanically talented people I've worked with. It'll also be a kick revisiting the weird and wonderful world of comics, a world inhabited by some of the most gifted artists and storytellers of our time, unsung geniuses who are only now beginning to receive the fame and respect that is so long overdue them. In fact, as I write these hopefully imperishable words, virtually every major movie and TV studio is busily producing highconcept features based on, or inspired by, comicbook superheroes. Yep, our once-lowly costumed cavorters are now a mother lode of entertainment in today's quest for ever more thrills and excitement. And so, thanks to Hollywood's burgeoning love affair with fantasy and special effects, I and the creations I've lived with lo these many years have suddenly become -- way cool! But first, a word about how this unorthodox book about MY unorthodox life came to be. My passionately persuasive literary agent, Susan Crawford, assured me that the entire reading public was panting for me to write my autobiography. (Yeah, right!) I told her I couldn't do it for two reasons. One, I'd never have time to do all the necessary research or to fine-tune a document chronicling seven long decades of memories, mirth, and misadventures. Two, I'd feel diffident about personally enumerating all my wonderful and endearing qualities; at the very least it could sound a mite immodest. Therefore, in one of the typical flashes of inspiration for which I'm so justly famous, I suggested that someone else simply write it as a biography, so the plaudits and accolades would not be attributed to my own unassuming self. But Susan, with bulldog tenacity belying her cherubic features, said that my old friends at Simon & Schuster wanted it to have the flavor of my own style of writing (masochists that they were) and not some biographer's. Finally, when it seemed we were at an impasse, that most erudite editor, magisterial Matt Walker, got into the ...

Product details

• Authors: Stan Lee, Stan/ Mair Lee, George Mair
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2002
• EAN: 9780684873053
• ISBN: 978-0-684-87305-3
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 237 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques