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Who Is Stan Lee A Hero

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Excelsior! I’m pretty sure that everyone in the class has seen at least one Marvel movie or will see one. The superhero universe is becoming one of the most famous types of movie genres nowadays, and nerds everywhere fangirl when they have seen it. Everything has a beginning, and sure enough, superheroes had one too. Stan Lee is the creator of many fantastic superheroes that we know and love today. He created the famous characters like the Fantastic Four, Spider-man and many more. Stan Lee’s full name is Stanley Martin Lieber. He was born on December 28, 1922, in New York City. He married to Joan Boocock in 1947 and had one daughter.

Stan Lee began his comic book career when he was hired as an office assistant at Timely Comics in 1939. It was then that he shortened his last name to Lee when he became a writer. Of course everyone knows about the famous and patriotic Captain America. In the 1940s, Lee became the company’s interim editor and a year after, he produced text filler for Captain America Comics issue #3, “Captain America Foils the Traitor’s Revenge”. This was his first involvement in superhero comics, and it was just the beginning. In the 1950s, he made a variety genre of comics called Atlas Comics, which were about romance, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.

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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

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