“Stan Lee‘s best creation was always Stan.”
Lee is credited with co-creating some of the most popular superheroes of all time, from Spider-Man to the Hulk and the X-Men.
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Marvel’s chief creative officer Joe Quesada recalls telling Lee after shaking his hand at a panel, “Thank you, you saved my life, because the life that I have today — there’s a direct line from that first comic book to here.”
Executive editor Tom Brevoort adds, “Stan’s best creation was always Stan … Stan … was somehow able to tap into his own larger-than-life, self-effacing and self-aggrandizing at the same time personality.”
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Then footage from an interview with Lee, himself, reveals the secret to his success.
“Even if they have superpower, they have to be believable,” Lee says of his decision to create heroes that were notably more flawed and complex than super figures of previous decades. “What they do has to be what any normal person would do in those situations.”
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“I wanted [readers] to feel like buying a Marvel book was like visiting an old friend,” Lee explains in another old interview.
Lee is memorialized in most of the live-action Marvel films, where he made cameos in 26 movies, beginning withThe Trial of the Incredible Hulkin 1989, where he appeared in a courtroom dream sequence, and ending with 2018’sVenom.
source: people.com
