Stan Lee, Legendary Comic Book Writer Turns 90

Stan Lee, Legendary Comic Book Writer Turns 90

Stan Lee, legendary comic book writer, editor, and publisher turned 90 this Friday.

Stanley Martin Lieber, born in New York City on the 28th of December 1922 to Romanian-Jewish immigrant parents has created some of the most recognizable names in comic book, animation and even pop culture.

The young Stan Lee, started work by doing a vast number of jobs, everything from delivering sandwiches to writing obituaries, from selling subscriptions to newspapers to ushering at Theaters.

His first big break was when he got an assistant gig at Timely Comics. The job basically involved getting lunch and coffee for the more established writers, and at best doing some proofreading, but it was there he also managed to put his name for the very first time on a comic.

From 1942 to 1945 Stan Lee wrote manuals and scripts for training films for the U.S. army during WW2.

He returned to his job at Timely Comics in 1945.At the end of the 1950s when Martin Goodman, owner of Timely Comics, known by then as Atlas Comics, asked Lee to come up with something that can measure to the success of DC’s Justice League, Lee started the irreversible process of becoming a true icon and created “The Fantastic Four”.

Even though he had a pace-maker implanted in his body this September, Stan Lee still seems to have the heart of a young man, and is planning to “live 90 more years”.

Posted by Kade Quinn on Sunday December 30 2012, 5:45 AM EST. Ref: Yahoo. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Entertainment. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0