Stan Lee : the man behind Marvel

Summary: Batchelor offers an eye-opening look at the life of Stan Lee, the man who created (with talented artists) many of history's most legendary characters. Becoming the editor of Marvel Comics as a teenager, and toiling in the industry for decades, Lee threw caution to the wind and went for broke, co-creating the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, and others in a creative flurry that revolutionized comic books for generations of readers.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442277816
ISBN: 1442277815
ISBN: 9781442277823
Physical Description: print
xiv, 229 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Distributor: [Place of distribution not identified] : Distributed by National Book Network

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: Dawn of the fantastic -- Stanley Lieber, New Yorker -- Teenage editor -- Army playwright -- Return to Marvel -- Public enemy number one -- Birth of the new hero: The Fantastic Four -- Spidey saves the day! -- Horde of superheroes -- Marketing the Marvel Universe -- Creating an icon -- Marvel's multitude of maladies -- Lure of Hollywood -- Marvel manipulations -- Rise and fall of Stan Lee Media -- Meanwhile ... -- Larger than life -- Conclusion: American icon.