Now he is as famous as the action
heroes he created still going to comic book conventions and appearing in all
the billion dollar movies being made of his characters. Call him the Arc hectic
of 20th Century mythology. Spiderman, the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, The X Men, The Avengers, The Fantastic Four are
all his creations. So why isn’t he rich? He is a company man. Old school. He
was born poor during the depression in 1922 in Bronx, New York. In 1939 he got
a job at a publishing house called Timely Comics. There he got caught up in
good vs. evil stories being involved in characters like Destroyer, Father Time
and Jack Frost that soon had Stan’s fingerprints on the drawing and story
lines.
After Pearl Harbor, he joined the
Army and soon was drawing posters for the Military with the slogan “VD, Not Me!”
to warn the soldiers against sexually transmittable diseases. By 1960 Timely
Comics became Marvel Comics. He realized that besides entertain that his comics
could offer social commentary. He took on issues of his day like war and race
relations, drug abuse. His super hero’s all had flaws and hang ups as well as
unique super powers. His most famous
character of all was Spiderman. He made him a teenager with personal
problems. It was Spiderman that led the
present Marvel revolution. Despite all
the success, he never really owned his characters. Marvel owns his characters.
He is not angry about contractual stuff. He did sue in 1992 and settled for a
mere six figures.
He vows to never retire and will
still find super hero topics and simple people to own the skills to always keep
us hopeful when it comes to good vs, evil.
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