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
“The man who made marvel” born December 28, 1922 makes stan lee 95 years old. This essay will cover his early life, adult life, facts, and awards or accomplishments.
He has also done many good things in his lifetime. Including, in 2010, when the Stan Lee Foundation was founded. The foundation works towards helping literacy, education, and the arts. He also, is super nice ot all the superhero fans. He said in an interview that it does get tired of some of them sometimes,but that he’s a good faker. He doesn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. He cares and he knows how excited people get with some of their superheroes.
In 2008, Lee was awarded the American National Medal of Arts. He has his star on the Hollywood Walk of fame; he also won the Saturn awards. Spider-Man earns $403 million in theaters. Because of his numerous achievements his net worth is $100 million. He won the Saturn awards. Throughout the years Stan Lee has appeared or made cameos in the Marvel movies because without him the films or the characters would not exist, so they pay tribute to him in this way. He has his own film that is about his life called With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story. Lee has co-created more than five hundred characters for his comics. He also goes to Comic Cons all across the nation and signs autographs and meets his fans. He legally changed his name from Stanley Martin Lieber to just Stan Lee (Stan Lee Comic Book Superhero). His wife died on July 6, 2017, at ninety-five years old, and Lee is currently 95 years old
You might be thinking “Traitor!”, but he is still loyal to Marvel Comics because in 2006, he was honoured for finishing 65 years with Marvel. He was featured in a one-shot comic book series that showed him interacting with his past creations like Spider-man, Doctor Strange, and the Fantastic Four. He was honoured in 2007, when Comic-Con International made Stan Lee action figures. He’s won awards such as the National Medal of Arts, Saturn Awards, Scream Awards, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Producers Guild of America, and Visual Effects Society
Linda Seger describes myths as common stories at the root of our universal existence something that is more than true. It speaks and connects to us all in many different ways. This is what helps movies become successful by tapping in to experience of people and being more than just a movie and letting people see the story behind the story. The Spider-Man series does a great job of doing just that they follow Linda Seger’s hero myth which is why it has been so successful. Seger’s first beat is that a “hero is introduced in ordinary surroundings, in a mundane world, doing mundane things.”
Spider-Man has been not just a fictional character and my favorite, but also a role model. I remember acting like him when I was a kid, and I would even try to do the heroic things he does in a way. I would even try to keep my deeds a secret, because I knew that's what Spider-Man would do. But my admiration for this
When Stan Lee proposed the idea of a hero with spider-like characteristics to Martin Goodman, Martin turned it down because many people do not enjoy spiders. “He said that Spider-Man seemed more like a comedy character than a powerful superhero. Since most people don’t like spiders, Goodman thought that the name “Spider-Man” was a terrible choice,” (1 Patel). At the time, Wonder Woman had powers similar to the male superheroes of the time because most female heroes were minor characters with limited powers. “Then, as now, most comic book characters were male. The few female characters were minor players with limited powers,” (2 Wilmore). Wonder Woman and Spider-man were outlandish heroes, but they had a great impact on people around the
His superhero career began after the accidental death of his wife and unborn child. He blamed himself for their deaths since he made his wife late for church over the usefulness of religion. This traumatic event stirred him into the direction of crime fighting.
Comic book industries have been the main establishers for the new American youth culture. This has also been well used to settle a cultural representation for communism, wartime-propaganda, and, to those adults who thought their child acting rude was caused by comics, a sign of the decline of comic books, thus making the industry fall into consensus and conformity. Ever since the first comic book was created in the 1930’s, Americans have been greatly influenced because of its vast enjoyment. Whether from romance to war or justice to crime, comic books have forever changed popular culture and can definitely portray how, at different times in U.S. history, people understood and interpreted events around the globe. This becomes apparent in the film Comic Book Superheroes: Unmasked when the
Comic book legend Stan Lee has been accused of groping and harassing the nurses who care for him at his home in lo Angeles. According to the Daily Mail, the nursing company in a legal dispute with Stan Lee after nurses claimed he asked for oral sex in the shower and to be “pleasure” in his bedroom (Kupfer, 2018). A source said “There has been a stream of young nurses coming to his house in West Hollywood and he has been sexually harassing them (Kupfer, 2018). The Source added, “He’s also very handsy and has groped some of the women, its’s unacceptable behavior.” In addition, A rep for the nursing company confirmed some nurses have complained that they have been harassed by Stan Lee (Kupfer, 2018.)
Lee’s life began in 1926 in a small town of Monroeville, Alabama where she was born and was the youngest of four children. Lee’s father was a lawyer and a member of the Alabama State Legislature, however, her mother was mentally ill and rarely left the house. Lee grew up as a tomboy with a close friend, Truman Capote. She was tougher than most boys and often protected her friend Truman, because he was “sensitive” or a “sissy” and even picked on about his clothing. Despite their differences, they became lifelong
The All-American man, Captain America embodies the American ideals from WWII through War on Terror. Created in 1941, Captain America was created to boost morale in WWII, by encouraging Americans to act justly. The Captain America comics, along with others that were popular during the time, aimed to do four things: unite the American people behind the war effort, rebut Axis propaganda, encourage vigilance against enemy spies, and to portray
At first Peter Parker used his spider man abilities to gain money by wresting. When he found out that his uncle had been murder, this changed. He began using the abilities for a greater good. Unlike the Flash, Spiderman worked by himself and taught himself how to use the superpowers. Spiderman can sense when people are in danger because of his “spider-sense”.
Captain America was a patriotic hero during the 1940’s defending the United States from Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler. His role was to keep our country patriotic and strong to defeat Hitler and his Nazis party. Stan Lee was the comic book writer,editor,and publisher for creating captain america.”Stan Lee was born december 28,1922 grew up in New York city through Great Depression.”(Fredriksen,
Peter never thought that the powers he had gained from the spider would have motivated him to save innocent lives and protect New York City. Spiderman the epitome of an ethical