Stan lee biography book
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Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. Nevertheless: Having begun his career with wartime Timely Comics and staying the course throughout the Atlas era, Stan the Man made comic-book history with Fantastic Four #1, harbinger of a bold new perspective in story writing that endures to this day. With some of the industry’s greatest artists, he introduced hero after hero in Incredible Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men and more — forming a shared universe for rival publishers to measure themselves against. After an almost literal lifetime of writing and editing, Lee entered new entertainment fields and earned Marvel one opportunity after another. He remains one of Marvel’s best-known public representatives. Stanley Martin Lieber (Manhattan, Nueva York; 28 de diciembre de - Los Ángeles, California; 12 de noviembre de ), más conocido como Stan Lee, fue un escritor y editor de cómics estadounidense, además de productor y ocasional actor de cine. Es principalmente conocido por haber cread
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True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
biography of Stan Lee written bygd Abraham Riesman
| Author | Abraham Riesman |
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| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Penguin Random House |
| Publication place | United States |
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True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee is a biography of Stan Lee written bygd Abraham Riesman.
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[edit]Lee, who died in , was a comic book writer, editor, and publisher. Riesman, a comic book fan, had previously written a number of articles about comic books for ,[1] and her profile of Lee went viral. The article concerning, in part, the grad of input Lee had in the creation of Marvel Comics superheroes during the Silver Age of Comic Books.[2]
True Believer was written as a followup and fryst vatten a full biography of Lee's life. For the biography, Riesman interviewed Lee's surviving family members, former coworkers and business partners, and assistants who worked with
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WHY A BIOGRAPHY OF STAN LEE?
Bob Batchelor
My Personal Journey: Marvel Comics, Electric Company, and Reading
My criteria for who or what to write about as a biographer and cultural historian is a mix of a.) personal interest, and b.) impact the person or group has had on culture. Clearly, Stan Lee fits.
When thinking about possible topics, I wanted to find an iconic figure whose life and work had influenced countless millions of people. There are many people who fit this description, but back in and when I was thinking about who, the possibilities were not endless. Many figures had biographies written about them or had covered their own territory via autobiography or memoir. Others I didn’t find interesting enough — personally — to want to spend five or more years with: from research to writing to publication to marketing to more marketing, etc. Taking on a biography is a LONG process of essentially getting inside another human being’s skin (and letting them in