Stan Lee , born Stanley Martin Lieber ( December 28 , 1922 – November 12, 2018 ) was an American writer and comics artist . He is best known for creating superheroes and their enemies at Marvel Comics , along with Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko . Partly thanks to their successes, Marvel managed to grow from a small publishing house into a large multimedia group. Famous creations of his include: Spider-Man , Fantastic Four and Iron Man .Stan Lee 2023 Movie Download
When Stanley was nine, his only brother Larry Lieber was born. The family was forced to move from the wealthier part of Manhattan to the low-rent Washington Heights neighborhood , in the north of the borough, because of the Great Depression .Lee attended DeWitt Clinton High School. Since childhood he loved to read and write, and worked part-time as a writer of small pieces for the newspaper. Lee finally finished school in 1939, and went to work for WPA Federal Theater Project .With the help of his uncle Robbie Solomon, the brother-in-law of pulp magazine and comic book publisher Martin Goodman , Stanley got a job at Timely Comics (the company that would eventually become Marvel Comics ). The first comic Stanley contributed to was the story ” Captain America Foils the Traitor’s Revenge” in Captain America Comics #3 (May 1941). He wrote this story under the pseudonym “Stan Lee”. He later legally changed his name to this pseudonym. Lee stated that he wanted to use his real name for more literary work. When Joe Simon and Jack Kirby left Timely Comics, Lee became the new editor.In 1942, Lee enlisted in the Army, where he was assigned to the communications department. He co-wrote manuals, training films and slogans, and often cartoons as well.In the mid-1950s, when the Atlas Comics company morphed into Marvel Comics, Lee wrote several genres of comics, including romance, western, humor, sci-fi, and medieval adventures.
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