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Stan Lee was the most famous American comic book creator who ever lived. Thanks, especially, to his many cameos in Marvel movies and TV shows, Lee was — and even after his 2018 death, still is — the voice and face of comics and popular culture in general, and Marvel Comics in particular. How he got to that place is a story that has never been fully told — until now. With creative partners, including lack Kirby and Steve Ditko — with whom he had tempestuous relationships that rivalled any superhero battle — Lee created world-famous characters.
But Lee's career was haunted by conflict and controversy. Was he the most innovative creator to ever do comics ? Was he a lucky no-talent whose only skill was taking credit for others' work ? Or was he something else altogether ? Danny Fingeroth's A Marvelous Life, The Amazing Story of Stan Lee attempts to answer some of these questions. It is the first comprehensive biography of this powerhouse who, with his invention of Marvel Comics, changed the world's ideas of what a hero is and how a story should be told.
With exclusive interviews with Lee himself, as well as with colleagues, relatives, friends and detractors, Fingeroth makes a compelling case for Lee's achievements, while not ignoring the controversies that dogged him his entire life — and even past his death. With unique access to Lee's personal archives at the University of Wyoming, Fingeroth explores never-before-examined aspects of Lee's life and career, and digs under the surface of what people think they know about him.
Despite F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous warning that "there are no second acts in American lives", Stan Lee created a second act for himself that changed everything for him, his family, his industry, and ultimately for all of popular culture. How he did it — and what it cost him — is a larger-than-life tale of a man who helped create the modern superhero mythology that has become a part of all our lives.