Stan Lee is the former President of Marvel Comics and was the main reason why it’s so iconic today. Stan Lee made characters we all know today such as Spiderman and The Incredible Hulk, yet these characters weren’t nearly as famous as they are today.
Stan Lee was born in December 28, 1922 in New York City, just in time for a low economical point in the U.S known as The Great Depression. He had to help provide for his family during The Great Depression by getting a job as an assistant at Timely Comics during the late 1930’s and even during World War II where he made the character Captain America, a Patriotic super soldier who fights against the Nazis and a criminal organization known as H.Y.D.R.A.
It took him up to the early 1960’s for Stan Lee to get recognized and was appointed by Timely Comics to create
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Inspired by science fiction writer Jules Verne, Stan Lee made the Fantastic Four in 1961 in hopes of competing with Detective Comics. During the 1960’s may have been one of Marvel Comics most important years in making it in to the international entertainment faction it is today since it was when Marvel Comics made some of its most popular characters such as Spiderman, The Incredible Hulk, Wolverine, Iron Man, Thor, The X-Men, and perhaps its most successful comic book: The Avengers. The first Avengers consisted of: Iron Man, Thor, The Hulk, Antman, The Wasp, and the resurrected Captain America. Although in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Avengers consisted of: The Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Vision, Falcon, War Machine, and the super powered mutants known as Quicksilver and Scarlett Witch. This lead to him being Marvel’s editorial editor and publisher in 1972.The competition to see who is the top dog in the comic book industry between DC and Marvel Comics got heated really fast as both