![]() ![]() While working on these teams, Stan Lee and the artists he collaborated with dreamed up a host of individual heroes. Other teams highlighted in our exhibit are the Avengers and X-Men (created in 1963), and the lesser-known team the Inhumans (created in 1965). While journeying through space in an experimental rocket-ship, they are subjected to radiation which gives each of them superpowers.Ĭheck out these comics featuring the Fantastic Four.Ī page from Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four: The World's Greatest Artist's Edition. The Fantastic Four are the genius Reed Richards, Susan Storm, her younger brother Johnny, and Richards’ college friend Ben Grimm. This was a deliberate contrast to the JLA, which included virtuous and all-powerful heroes such as Superman and Wonder Woman. It was to be a team of superheroes with very human natures, who squabbled and sulked but still saved the world. In 1961, spurred by the success of rival DC Comics’ Justice League of America (JLA) series, Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby created the Fantastic Four. Without his showmanship and marketing skills, Marvel Comics would not be the powerhouse it is today. No one can deny, though, that Lee was the driving force in popularising these characters and fostering the careers of many legendary artists and writers. True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham RiesmanĪ Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee by Danny Fingeroth To learn more, here's some recent biographies on Stan Lee that offer more background and insight into this controversy: Artist Jack Kirby claimed that Lee actually wrote very little and that Kirby himself and other creators wrote the bulk of what Lee took credit for. Lee worked collaboratively with the artists at Marvel, usually giving them loose plots and then inserting dialogue into finished pages. This fertile period is when he created his most beloved characters, though his claims of authorship are sometimes controversial. ![]() Marvel Greatest Comics: 100 Comics that Built a Universe by Melanie Scottĭuring the 1960s, Stan Lee was writing for most of Marvel's series. Stan Lee worked his way up from editor to publisher at Marvel and became the public face of the company. Timely Comics became Atlas Comics after the war and then Marvel Comics in 1961. Lee progressed to scripting comic books and kept writing even through a stint in the army during World War 2. Three years later, in 1941, he started writing short prose stories for Timely and was promoted to interim editor. At first, Lee spent his time sweeping floors and running errands for the staff. At age 16, he got a job as an office boy at Timely Comics through his cousin, who was married to the owner. Stan Lee was born Stanley Lieber, the son of blue-collar, Romanian-Jewish immigrants in New York. If you are unable to come to the exhibit you can still learn more about Stan Lee’s career and some Marvel-ous characters below! ![]() The exhibit runs from now until July 2, 2022. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. The exhibit is open from 10am to 6pm, Mondays through Fridays, and 9am to 5pm on Saturdays. Visit A Marvel-ous Century of Stan Lee on the third floor of the Lillian H. Staff at the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy have a selected a few such characters to highlight in honour of Stan Lee's 100th birthday. With a talented team of artists, Stan Lee produced some of the most beloved comics characters in the world. Lee presided over a period of intense creativity at Marvel Comics. He died in 2018, just one month shy of his 96th birthday. "Thank you Stan Lee for making people who feel different realize they are special,” he tweeted.Born in 1922, Stan Lee would have turned 100 this year. Most said the world had lost a titanic creator, which was true. When news of Lee’s death spread across the Internet, it invariably drew remembrances from legions of comic book readers and celebrity fans. The team of superheroes, given strange and wonderful powers after being irradiated in an outer space accident, was full of the kind of showmanship, street-level mythicism, and pop sensibility that defined his life and career. After working on monster books and various sundry titles with titans like Jack Kirby (who co-created Captain America in 1941 with Joe Simon), Lee seized comics’ Silver Age as Marvel’s in 1961 with the introduction of the Fantastic Four, which he co-created with Kirby. Born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York City on December 28, 1922, Lee got his start at Marvel thanks to his uncle Robbie Solomon in 1939, when it was still called Timely Comics. ![]()
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