“Excelsior”! As Stanley Lieber would put it, A.K.A. Stan Lee, the man behind all of Marvel’s most famous heroes. Born in New York City the man has gained a lot of respect and fame from all Marvel fans, but life for him has never been easy and today I’m going to show the life of Stan
Lee, like what his early life was like, and his struggles that continue on today. Then I will show his family such as his wife, parents, and children. Finally, I will show you how he became famous, with how he got into comics, and how Marvel is doing now. First, we will talk about his life. Stan Lee was born in New York City, NY on December,
22nd, 1922 to Jack and Cecilia Lieber. He attended Dewitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.
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It was so bad that they had to live in a one bedroom apartment. Lee worked any job that he could get, like writing obituaries for newspapers and becoming an office boy. Lee grew up watching movies and tv along with reading books. He said in an interview “I’ve always wanted to write the Great American Novel That everyone would love to read”. According to
FamousPeople.com. He then at age sixteen joined timely comics as an editor, which would eventually become Marvel Comics. Although Stan Lee’s life was breezy for a while after becoming rich and famous off of
Marvel, now after his wife died a few months ago people have been trying to worm t
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2 into Stan’s life and take advantage of him and his fortune. Things have gotten so bad that some people claim it to be elder abuse. According to Hollywoodreporter.com Lee’s own daughter, lawyer, and some of his closest friends have taken $250,000 from his bank account, $800,000 worth of stock, and with his recent bout with pneumonia even ordered blood to be taken at
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They had two children, Larry
Lieber and Stanley Lieber. Lee does have a wife Joan B. Lee. She was born Gosforth, Newcastle, February, 5th, 1922.
They got married in 1947 and it lasted for 70 years before she sadly passed away in 2017 caused by a stroke. Joan was a British model and even took up the tradition with Stan Lee in appearing in Marvel movies when she appeared in X-Men: Apocalypse, which she is shown hugging Lee as the world is destroyed around them. Stan Lee had two children, Jan Lee and Joan C. Lee, sadly Jan did not make it past childbirth.
His relationship with his only daughter has never been great and only seemed to get worse after
Joan Lee passed. Finally, I will talk about how he helped shape marvel into what it is today. As mentioned before he joined Timely Comics in 1937. In 1940 Timely Comics Became Marvel. He started out doing menial tasks like printing and making touch-ups to the comics, but in 1941 he was able to
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3 make his first comic Destroyer of Mystic comics No 6. After the success of this comic and a