Stan Lee
Dominic A. Rybolt Mrs. Erin Smith Honors English III 7th November 2014 The Legendary Stan Lee
Stan Lee redefined American Literature and the way written works are viewed as not
only entertainment, but by using one word “Excelsior”! The soul reason Stan Lee is superior to
any writer in history is due to the fact he is born with God given talent to influence the world
through his vivid imagination. Ideas sprocketed out of his mind at a rapid pace that people to this
day believe that he created the entire comic book industry while Jack Kirby merely drew his
ideas. Not only a king of the comic book industry but an icon of the movie industry, Captain
Cameo, his nickname, has appeared in over twenty films ranging …show more content…
Stan Lee not
only accelerated the comic Book industry to fame across America during a period of constant
war mongering, but he also gave strength to the everyday person. Yet with all of this
international fame, who truly is Stan Lee? In order to find out who he is, we have to dig through
time to uncover a page of the comic artist’s time capsule.
Born from Romanian-Jewish immigrants, Celia and Jack Lieber, on December 28th, 1922
in New York, New York, Stanley Martin Lieber entered the face of the Earth. His father was a
tailor and mother a homemaker during The Great Depression. As a teenager he loved to read and
write however, he lived a very busy life. He would write obituaries, deliver sandwiches for the
Jack May Pharmacy, work as a trouser boy, usher at the Rivoli Theater in Broadway, and sell
subscriptions of the New York Herald Tribune newspaper (Wang 1). It was shortly following
that he graduated high school at 16 and a half years old in 1939 to work at the WPA Federal
Theatre Project. With help of his uncle, Robbie Solomon, he was able to become an assistant at
the Timely Comics. This was a company that Robbie’s brother-in-law, Martin Goodman, …show more content…
However, Lee would go on to help out with social disputes
within the world using his “Stan’s Soapbox” to talk about racism and bigotry among the world.
Living a long life of success, Stan Lee is mostly known for his success within the Marvel
Universe of movies, usually appearing as a cameo as well as the mind behind the machine, and
his greatest comic book series that some view as Jack Kirby’s creation also: The Amazing
Spider-Man. Shortly before the twenty-first century, Stan Lee would be welcomed into the Will
Eisner Hall of Fame during the year of 1994. The following year he would go on to be inducted
into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame. As a child during the Great Depression, Stan Lee had truly
been able to succeed in the gloom world by creating these images of superheroes that were also
human beings. Who wouldn’t befriend a man that had such a positive impact and vision of
human life even after the childhood he had growing up? One man, Peter Paul, “befriended” Lee
after being a former lawyer he would establish a non-exclusive contract with Marvel Comics.
Working together they would found Stan Lee Media in 1998 as the idea would be used
Dominic A. Rybolt Mrs. Erin Smith Honors English III 7th November 2014 The Legendary Stan Lee
Stan Lee redefined American Literature and the way written works are viewed as not
only entertainment, but by using one word “Excelsior”! The soul reason Stan Lee is superior to
any writer in history is due to the fact he is born with God given talent to influence the world
through his vivid imagination. Ideas sprocketed out of his mind at a rapid pace that people to this
day believe that he created the entire comic book industry while Jack Kirby merely drew his
ideas. Not only a king of the comic book industry but an icon of the movie industry, Captain
Cameo, his nickname, has appeared in over twenty films ranging …show more content…
Stan Lee not
only accelerated the comic Book industry to fame across America during a period of constant
war mongering, but he also gave strength to the everyday person. Yet with all of this
international fame, who truly is Stan Lee? In order to find out who he is, we have to dig through
time to uncover a page of the comic artist’s time capsule.
Born from Romanian-Jewish immigrants, Celia and Jack Lieber, on December 28th, 1922
in New York, New York, Stanley Martin Lieber entered the face of the Earth. His father was a
tailor and mother a homemaker during The Great Depression. As a teenager he loved to read and
write however, he lived a very busy life. He would write obituaries, deliver sandwiches for the
Jack May Pharmacy, work as a trouser boy, usher at the Rivoli Theater in Broadway, and sell
subscriptions of the New York Herald Tribune newspaper (Wang 1). It was shortly following
that he graduated high school at 16 and a half years old in 1939 to work at the WPA Federal
Theatre Project. With help of his uncle, Robbie Solomon, he was able to become an assistant at
the Timely Comics. This was a company that Robbie’s brother-in-law, Martin Goodman, …show more content…
However, Lee would go on to help out with social disputes
within the world using his “Stan’s Soapbox” to talk about racism and bigotry among the world.
Living a long life of success, Stan Lee is mostly known for his success within the Marvel
Universe of movies, usually appearing as a cameo as well as the mind behind the machine, and
his greatest comic book series that some view as Jack Kirby’s creation also: The Amazing
Spider-Man. Shortly before the twenty-first century, Stan Lee would be welcomed into the Will
Eisner Hall of Fame during the year of 1994. The following year he would go on to be inducted
into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame. As a child during the Great Depression, Stan Lee had truly
been able to succeed in the gloom world by creating these images of superheroes that were also
human beings. Who wouldn’t befriend a man that had such a positive impact and vision of
human life even after the childhood he had growing up? One man, Peter Paul, “befriended” Lee
after being a former lawyer he would establish a non-exclusive contract with Marvel Comics.
Working together they would found Stan Lee Media in 1998 as the idea would be used