Who was Stan Lee and why he was famous ?

The Hulk was supposed to be gray, but Lee writes that the printer had a hard time keeping the color consistent. “So as of issue 2,” Lee writes, “with no explanation, he turned green.”

According to Lee, during an argument, Joanie destroyed the typewriter he used to write the first issues for iconic characters including Spider-Man and The Fantastic Four. “This happened before eBay,” he writes. “Too bad. I could’ve auctioned the parts and made a mint.”

When Lee moved his family to Los Angeles, he set up a studio in Van Nuys where he stored videotapes of his interviews, along with a bust of his wife that he commissioned.

The building was lost to a blaze that the fire department believed was arson, but no one was ever charged with the crime.

Beginning with the first Spider-Man film in 2002, Stan Lee has made cameos in Marvel films as a service to the fans. He says that his appearance in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was inspired by the story of Reed and Sue Richards’ wedding in Fantastic Four, in which he and artist/writer Jack Kirby attempt to crash the ceremony but are thwarted.

In late September 2012, Lee underwent a serious surgery to have a pacemaker implatned, cancelling planned appearances at conventions. Fans were disappointed but ultimately happy their idol was going to be sticking around.

Four years earlier in 2008, President George W. Bush presented Stan with the American National Medal of the Arts. Stan is the only comic book writer to ever receive the honor.

Stan Lee’s Fantastic Four with Jack Kirby is considered the greatest and most influential superhero comic of all time.

Since 2000’s X-Men, Lee has appeared in 16 films based on Marvel Comics characters that he either created or helped create during his time with Marvel.

One of the exclusive offers for the game adaptation of The Amazing Spider-Man was playing a short side-quest via DLC where you play as Stan himself, looking for lost pages of his manuscript while using all the powers at Spider-Man’s disposal. It’s actually quite fun to see someone other than Spider-Man doing Spider-Man things, let alone Stan freaking Lee!

Stan Lee owns his own comic book convention, sort of. In 2012, Stan Lee and Regina Carpinelli, founder and CEO of Comikaze Expo, announced that Stan Lee would become a partner in the company and soon after Comikaze was rebranded as Stan Lee’s Comikaze. Talk about getting closer to your fans.

Stan Lee has donated large portions of his personal effects to the University of Wyoming at various times, between 1981 and 2001.

The Stan Lee Foundation and was founded in 2010 to focus on literacy, education and the arts. Its stated goals include supporting programs and ideas that improve access to literacy resources, as well as promoting diversity, national literacy, culture and the arts.

Lee championed close collaboration between comic book writers and artists. The collaborative approach was known as the “Marvel Method.” In 2010, he told CNN, “All of my life in comics I have worked with artists, so I’ve collaborated with them. I would write down the original story, they would draw it and then I would edit it and do the art direction. So everything I’ve done has always been a collaboration.”

Lee and his Marvel collaborators unveiled the Fantastic Four in 1961. The group is known as Marvel’s answer to the Justice League from rival publisher, DC Comics.

In 2001 Stan started POW! Entertainment. The Company is a multimedia development and licensing company that creates and licenses animated and live-action fantasy and superhero entertainment content and merchandise, leveraging the creative output and branded image of Stan Lee.

The History Channel launched the series “Stan Lee’s Superhumans” in 2010, which documented people with extraordinary skills and abilities. The show was moderately successful but was cancelled four years after it first aired.

Stan partnered with the NHL in 2011 to form Guardian Media Entertainment. The company creates superhero characters for each NHL hockey team. The promotion was also short lived, but thanks to the internet, the heroes are available for your viewing pleasure

After leaving Marvel in the late ’90s Stan Lee was approached by a man named Peter Paul who pitched Lee on a project called Stan Lee Media

This was a company where Lee could release any project that he wanted to without having the Marvel executive approval.

Lee thought this was great, but there was just one problem. Paul was using the Stan Lee brand to rob their investors.

While Lee was releasing new characters like the web series The 7th Portal, and a sci-fi version of The Punisher called The Accuser, Paul was exaggerating the company’s profits to their investors, and manipulating stocks.

he SEC eventually caught up to Paul and busted him for fraud in 2001. Lee was cleared of all wrongdoing but was embarrassed in front of the comic book community at large.

Stan Lee, original name Stanley Martin Lieber, (born December 28, 1922, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 12, 2018, Los Angeles, California), American comic book writer best known for his work with Marvel Comics.

Among the hundreds of characters and teams that he helped to create were the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Avengers, and the X-Men.