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Stanley Martin Lieber who is more commonly known as, Stan Lee, is an editor, publisher, producer, actor, television host, former chairman of Marvel Comics, and most importantly an extravagant comic book writer. Lee, born on December 28th 1922, began his career at the age of seventeen with Timely Comics, which is now known as Marvel Comics. During his time with Timely Comics, developed numerous comics such as The Fantastic Four, Captain America, The Amazing Spider-Man, Iron-Man and countless of other stories that paved the way to his success as a cartoonist. Lee remains one of the best comic book writers of all time. Going beyond the fantasy world of superheroes, Lee’s incorporation of real life social issues into his writing has created a …show more content…

Lee grew up during the Great depression and experienced economic deprivation as his parent’s were incapable of taking care of him, which affected Lee throughout his teenage years. Lee uses the struggles he faced growing up to help raise hope and awareness to teenagers of the 1960s and 1970s who were also struggling economically. Lee uses the literary device of theme in one of his best selling comics, The Amazing Spider-man to respond to the challenges of common everyday life (Pineda and Jesus 29). Peter Parker, who is revealed to be Spider-man was created in Lee’s own image when he was a teenager. Through the use of Spider-man, Lee “helped keep alive American Liberalism among the young… and economic opportunity” (Lee 260). The literary device of man vs society is also incorporated into Lee’s writing of Spider-man. After coming home from serving his duty in the single corps during World War II, Lee’s career started to surface in the 1960s. Lee crafted Spider-man to respond to the many social issues he witnessed caused by man confronting American society such as crime, abuse, and racial injustices during the mid 1960s and early 1970s. In Lee’s writing of Spider-man, Lee symbolized Spider-Man as a man of justice and equality as “he fought against drug abuse, drug pushers, organized crime, pollution, and racial bigotry” (Lee 260). Lee’s superhero archetype of …show more content…

The atmosphere of World War II helped enhance Lee’s writing because it led to the debut of Captain America Issue #3 in 1941 with the help of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Lee used elements of the war and incorporated it into his work. The controversy and calamity of the war made Lee’s Captain America a prominent figure during the war period because he epitomized anti-Nazism in an unexpressed interventionist tone (Wright 474). Lee constructed a tone towards Captain America, which pledged to wage war against the enemies who were a threat to justice not only home in America but also out of the country. With this tone, Lee’s work had the most attention in the World War II years. The influence of the war in Lee’s work, however, led to some criticism. The ideology that Lee’s Captain America held wasn’t viewed properly by political groups of other countries at the time, but Lee found reverence from young readers who idolized patriotism. At the time, Marvel Comics was called Timely Comics, and Timely Comics became the first comic book company to publish anti-Nazi stories. After World War II transitioned to the Cold War, America and the Soviet Union had high tensions between one another, and the feeling of uncertainty grew amongst the two nations. Lee used the high tension and uncertainty America faced with the Soviet Union, and incorporated them into his writing. Lee’s style of writing

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