Stan Lee

by Bob Batchelor

22. Quoted in Judy Klemesrud, “Savage She-Hulk New Comic Heroine,” New York Times News Service, January 20, 1980.

  23. Terry Young, “Spider-Man’s About to Get Real, Says His Creator,” Toronto Star, July 6, 1986.

  24. Stan Lee to Francelia Butler, November 21, 1980, Correspondence, Box 14, File 4, Stan Lee Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

  25. Stan Lee interviewed by Margaret Jones and John R. Gambling, “Good Afternoon New York,” WOR/Radio, June 22, 1984, Interviews with Stan Lee 1970–1989, Box 3, Folder 10–11, Stan Lee Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

  26. Stan Lee, The Best of Spider-Man (New York: Ballantine, 1986), 9.

  27. Ibid., 10, 12.

  28. Ibid., 12–16.

  29. Quoted in Sean Howe, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (New York: Harper, 2012), 294.

  30. Lee and Mair, Excelsior!, 209–10.

  31. Quoted in Howe, Marvel Comics, 295.

  32. Ibid., 309.

  33. Quoted in ibid., 311–12.

  CHAPTER 13

  1. Mike Wallace, “Ronald Reagan Remembered,” CBS News 60 Minutes, June 6, 2004, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ronald-reagan-remembered.

  2. Quoted in Dan Raviv, Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled over the Marvel Comics Empire—and Both Lost (New York: Broadway, 2002), 12.

  3. Floyd Norris, “Boom in Comic Books Lifts New Marvel Stock Offering,” New York Times, July 15, 1991, http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/15/business/market-place-boom-in-comic-books-lifts-new-marvel-stock-offering.html.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Quoted in Les Daniels, Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World’s Greatest Comics (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995), 225.

  6. Michael E. Hill, “Where Does The Hulk Buy Clothes? Anywhere He Wants, of Course,” Washington Post, February 18, 1990, O8.

  7. Stan Lee, ed., The Ultimate Spider-Man (New York: Berkeley, 1994), 10.

  8. Lee, Ultimate, 11, 13.

  9. John Updike, “Cut the Unfunny Comics, Not ‘Spiderman,’” Boston Globe, October 27, 1994, July 1994 to November 1994, Coll. 8302, Box 137, Stan Lee Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

  10. Lee, Ultimate, 22.

  11. Ibid., 110.

  12. Ibid., 342.

  13. Ibid., 7.

  14. Adam Bryant, “Pow! The Punches That Left Marvel Reeling,” New York Times, May 24, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/24/business/pow-the-punches-that-left-marvel-reeling.html.

  15. Ibid.

  16. Shirrel Rhoades, A Complete History of American Comic Books (New York: Peter Lang, 2008), 153–54.

  17. Ibid., 155.

  18. Ibid., 160–61.

  19. Raviv, Comic Wars, 230.

  20. Michael Goldman, “Stan Lee: Comic Guru,” Animation World Magazine, July 1997, 8.

  21. Ibid.

  CHAPTER 14

  1. Stan Lee Media Press Kit, 1999, Stan Lee Media Publicity Folder 1999, Box 127, Stan Lee Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

  2. Quoted in Gary Dretzka, “At 77, ‘X-Men’ Creator Stan Lee Is as Busy as Ever,” Chicago Tribune, July 19, 2000.

  3. Stan Lee and George Mair, Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002), 223.

  4. Figures noted in Sean Howe, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (New York: Harper, 2012), 398.

  5. Quoted in Dretzka, “At 77.”

  6. Stan Lee Media Press Kit, 1999, Stan Lee Media Publicity Folder 1999, Box 127, Stan Lee Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

  7. Quoted in Madeleine Brand, “Growing Trend of Online Comics,” Morning Edition, NPR, January 20, 2000.

  8. Michael Dean, “If This Be My Destiny,” Comics Journal 232 (April 2001): 8.

  9. Quoted in ibid., 8.

  10. Ibid., 10.

  11. Jordan Raphael, “The Invincible Stan Lee?” Los Angeles Times Magazine, July 16, 2000, 20.

  12. Quoted in Howe, Marvel Comics, 408.

  13. Anthony D’Allessandro, “Lee Bounces Back into Business with POW!” Variety, July 19–25, 2004, B14.

  14. “Co-founder of Comic Company Pleads Guilty,” Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2005, http://articles.latimes.com/2005/mar/10/business/fi-rup10.4.

  15. Ibid.

  16. Howe, Marvel Comics, 408–9.

  17. Shelly Garcia, “Spider-Man’s Business Brain,” Los Angeles Business Journal, August 21, 2000, 29.

  18. “Ex-Exec of Stan Lee Media Sentenced,” Los Angeles Times, August 5, 2003, http://articles.latimes.com/2003/aug/05/business/fi-stanlee5.

  19. Jon Swartz, “Stan Lee Rises from Dot-Com Rubble,” USA Today, May 12, 2004.

  20. Lee v. Marvel Enterprises, Inc. and Marvel Characters, Inc., 02 Civ. 8945 United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 765 F. Supp. 2d 440 (S.D.N.Y. 2011) LEXIS 11297 February 4, 2011, Decided February 4, 2011, Filed.

  21. United States of America v. Peter Paul, Stephen M. Gordon, Jeffrey Pittsburg, Charles Kusche, Jonathan Gordon, Docket Nos. 09-3191-cr (L), 09-4147-cr (con) United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 634 F.3d 668 (2011 U.S. App.) LEXIS 4473, February 17, 2011, Argued. March 7, 2011, Decided.

  22. Swartz, “Stan Lee Rises.”

  23. Lee and Mair, Excelsior!, 233.

  24. Larry Schultz, e-mail message to Stan Lee, January 12, 2001, Correspondence, 1995– 2010, Box 106 (2016-09-22 142037), Stan Lee Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

  CHAPTER 15

  1. Adam Chitwood, “The Epic Bryan Singer Interview: ‘ X-Men Apocalypse,’ the Super-hero Genre, Timelines, and More,” Collider, April 21, 2016, http://collider.com/bryan-singer-x-men-apocalypse-interview/.

  2. Stan Lee, Peter David, and Colleen Doran, Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir (New York: Touchstone, 2015), n.p.

  3. Anthony D’Alessandro, “Lee Bounces Back into Business with POW!” Variety, July 19–25, 2004, B14.

  4. “POW! Entertainment Partners in the Production of Three Live Action Flicks,” PR Newswire, October 6, 2004.

  5. Quoted in Virginia Rohan, “Stan Lee’s Project with Pam Anderson Looks Like a Bust,” Record (Bergen County, NJ), June 26, 2003: F5.

  6. Ibid.

  7. “Alta Loma Entertainment & POW! Entertainment to Develop Animated Series Hef’s Superbunnies,” PR Newswire, July 18, 2003.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Quoted in Michael Dean, “Stan Lee’s Hour of Glory,” Comics Journal 267 (April/May 2005): 23.

  10. Brent Staples, “Marveling at Marvel: You Say Spider-Man, but I Say the Thing,” New York Times, March 25, 2005, A16.

  11. “Who Deserves the Credit (and Cash) for Dreaming Up Those Superheroes?” New York Times, January 31, 2005, C8.

  12. Quoted in David Kohn, “Superhero Creator Fights Back,” 60 Minutes, October 30, 2002, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/superhero-creator-fights-back/.

  13. “Marvel Settles Suit with Lee,” Los Angeles Times, April 29, 2005, http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/29/business/fi-marvel29 (accessed November 7, 2015).

  14. Ibid.

  CHAPTER 16

  1. Joel Garreau, “Stan Lee and Olivia de Havilland among National Medal of Arts Winners,” Washington Post, November 18, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111701659.html.

  2. Stan Lee, “Stan Lee Talks about Time Jumper at San Diego Comic-Con 2009,” You-Tube, posted July 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hixwR_c_R_4.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Stan Lee, “Stan Lee Is Spider-Man,” Stan Lee’s World of Heroes, June 21, 2012, https://youtu.be/I-lL8LD8SJQ?list=PL027ADE83FF495FA3.

  5. Matt Clark, “Amazing Spider-Man Game Features Playable Stan Lee,” MTV, May 9, 2012, http://www.mtv.com/news/2600338/amazing-spider-man-game-stan-lee/.

  6. “Stan Lee Launches New Comic Franchise ‘Nitron’ with Keya Morgan and Michael Benaroya’s Benaroya Pictures, Press release, July 20, 2016, http://www.broadcastingcable.com/thewire/stan-lee-launch
es-new-comic-franchise-nitron-keya-morgan-and-michael-benaroya-s-benaroya-pictures/158188.

  7. “Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment Teams with Hollywood Reporter on New Series ‘Cosmic Crusaders,’” Hollywood Reporter, June 21, 2016, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/stan-lees-pow-entertainment-teams-904586.

  8. Quoted in Michael Cavna, “Stan Lee Has a New Plan to Unite Police and Black Lives Matter,” Washington Post, October 6, 2016, http://wpo.st/-ET42.

  9. Quoted in Ethan Sacks, “Stan Lee Muses on His Final New York Comic Con,” New York Daily News, October 10, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vrHUNyFc4.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Peter Larsen, “Comic-book Legend Stan Lee Likes the ‘Con Game,’” Orange County Register, October 28, 2016.

  12. Quoted in Blair Marnell, “Stan Lee Talks Lego Marvel’s Avengers, Marvel Movies, and More,” Nerdist, November 18, 2015, http://nerdist.com/interview-stan-lee-talks-lego-marvels-avengers-marvel-movies-and-more.

  13. Max Anderson in discussion with the author, Cincinnati Comic Expo, September 24, 2016.

  14. Stan Lee in discussion with the author, Cincinnati Comic Expo, September 24, 2016.

  CONCLUSION

  1. Quoted in David Hochman, “Playboy Interview: Stan Lee,” Playboy, April 11, 2014, http://www.playboy.com/articles/stan-lee-marvel-playboy-interview.

  2. Memo, Marvel Comics Group—Manuscript Information, 1974, Box 6, Folder 8, Stan Lee Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

  3. Quoted in Jeff McLaughlin, “An Afternoon with Stan Lee,” in Stan Lee Conversations, ed. Jeff McLaughlin (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007), 211.

  4. Stan Lee and George Mair, Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002), 135.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Bob Batchelor is a cultural historian who has written or edited more than twenty-five books on popular culture, American literature, and communications history. Batchelor teaches in the Media, Journalism & Film Department at Miami University. Among his books are John Updike: A Critical Biography (2013), Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), and Mad Men: A Cultural History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Visit him online at www.bobbbatchelor.com.