Trivia
- Stan had a brief appearence in Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement as Three Stooges Wedding Guest.
- In 2005, Stan won the Hero of Literacy Award at the Family Literacy Fair.
- Won the Golden Panel Awards by The New York City Comic Book Museum in 2002.
- Stan won the Sparky Award in 2000.
- Won the Larry Stewart Leadership and Inspiration Award at the 1998 PRISM Awards.
- In 2002, won Life Career Award from Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.
- In 2000, won Lifetime Achievement Award from Burbank International Children's Film Festival.
- n 1971, Lee indirectly reformed the Comics Code.
- He set main part of Marvel's heroes in New York City because he knew the area and want them to be in real places.
- He is of the Jewish realigon.
- Stan Lee: Spider-Man was Spidey, Captain America was Wing-Head, Thor was Goldilocks. I loved calling Iron Man Shell-Head and Daredevil was Horn-Head.
- Stan Lee: Wolverine is one of the best characters ever created in fiction. I blew it by not coming up with the idea first.
- Stan Lee: To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.
- Stan Lee: I love Marvel and the people there. I'm glad I'm still part of it.
- Stan Lee: I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.
- Stan Lee: I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.
- Stan Lee was born to Celia and Jack Lieber, Jewish immigrants from Romania.
- As a teen he worked such part-time jobs as writing obituaries for a news service and press releases for the National Tuberculosis Center; delivering sandwiches for the Jack May pharmacy to offices in Rockefeller Center; working as an office boy for a trouser manufacturer; ushering at the Rivoli Theater on Broadway; and selling subscriptions to the New York Herald-Tribune newspaper.
- In 1939, he joined the WPA Federal Theatre Project.
- Lee returned from his World War II military service in 1945.
- It has been announced that Lee will be creating a new superhero created just for the movies. It has been announced that this new superhero will be called Foreverman.
- In 2005 POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment, Inc. was founded by Stan Lee, together with Gill Champion and Arthur Lieberman.
- Stan Lee has received several awards for his work, including being formally inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.
- In 2001, he did the narration for the film "Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV," under the pseudonym "Peter Parker."
- In the 2000s, Lee did his first work for DC Comics, launching the Just Imagine... series, where he showed how HE would have created and styled such famous characters as Superman, Wonder Woman, the Batman, and the Justice League.
- He create an online animation studio, Stan Lee Media, in 1999.
- He made a cameo in Kevin Smith's motion picture "Mallrats."
- Lee enlisted in the U.S. Army in early 1942 and served stateside in the Signal Corps, writing manuals, training films, and slogans, and occasionally cartooning.
- He graduated high school early, at age 16-1/2, in 1939.
- He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.
- Stan is a Democrat and has contributed large sums of money to Bill and Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy.
- In 2002 Lee published his autobiography "Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee."
- In 2005 he started his own comic book company called Kapow Comics.
- He has it written into his contract that in any movie based on a Marvel character that he is credited with creating or working on, he gets a cameo in the movie version of the comic. Aka Hot Dog Vendor in "X-Men," Security Guard in "Hulk", Bystander in "Spider-Man", Old Man at Crossing in "Daredevil," Man Dodging Debris in "Spider-Man 2," Willie Lumpkin in "Fantastic Four," and Waterhose Man in "X-Men 3." He did not, however, appear in "X-Men 2."
- Admitted he'd always hoped to play the character of J. Jonah Jameson in a film adaptation of Spider-Man, though he conceded he was too old to even be considered by the time the film was actually made and praised J.K. Simmons for his performance in the role.
- In 1972 he became publisher and editorial director of Marvel Comics.
- He enttred the comic book scene at 17 as assistant editor for the Timely comics group. In 1942, he was promoted to editor.
- His three most famous comic book creations are: Fantastic Four (Debut November 1961), the Incredible Hulk (Debut May 1962) and the Amazing Spiderman (Debut August 1962 in 'Amazing Fantasy' # 15).
- His daughter is model/actress Joan Celia "J.C." Lee (b. 1950). His other daughter, Jan, died shortly after birth (1953).
- He ended his weekly "Stan's Soapbox" column (which appeared in every Marvel comic book) with the phrase "Excelsior."
- He disliked the 1970s live-action Spiderman TV series (for which he was a script consultant), deeming it "too juvenile." He also felt that Spiderman was being treated on the show as a "cardboard character."
- He is the brother of Larry Lieber.
- Apart from his participation in the creation of the classic Marvel Comics characters, he also helped weaken censorship in the mainstream comics field. This happened when he decided to do a story about the problem of drug abuse. The story he wrote in 1971 for "The Amazing Spider-Man" concerned Peter Parker's friend Harry Osborne having a bad trip on LSD and nearly dying from it. The Comics Code Authority declared that they would not give their seal of approval to the three-issue arc on the grounds that the code, which was notorious for being draconian, would not allow the depiction of drug use even when it is portrayed negatively. Lee decided to defy the CCA and published the story as is without the seal and received healthy sales and a positive public reaction for his efforts in portraying the social problem. Soon after, the CCA changed their rules to allow for anti-drug messages in comics.
- He is married to Joan Lee (5 December 1947 - present) with two children.
- He is the narrator of many early Marvel cartoons.
- He first began to work on comics in 1941 on the 3rd issue of Captain America.
Quotes
- Stan Lee: I felt someday I'd write the Great American Novel and I didn't want to use my real name on these silly little comics. (about why he changed his name to Stan Lee to begin with.)
- Stan Lee: If a character had the first initial in both names, I could at least remember one of the names.
- Stan: When I go and see one of the movies I don't sit there and think I would have done it differently from Sam Raimi or Bryan Singer. Like everybody else in the audience I just enjoy the experience.
