The Life of Stan Lee
Ever since Stan Lee started writing comics for Marvel, there have been millions of laughs around the world. He has created and co created several of the most famous Marvel characters today. Even though he is an old man, Stan Lee has managed to make countless people laugh through his infamous cameos in the movies and helping write the scripts of the Marvel movies.
On December 28, 1922, Stanley Martin Lieber, who is more famously known as Stan Lee was born. His parents, Celia and Jack Lieber, were Romanian immigrants. Stan Lee also has a younger brother, Larry Lieber, who is roughly about ten years younger than Stan and is now a comic book artist and writer. When Stan became a writer, he shortened his last name to ‘Lee’ and became an office assistant at Timely Comics in 1939. He later became an interim editor for the company in the early 1940s. When World War Two was in place, Stan Lee served domestically working as a writer and an illustrator.
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In the early 60’s, Stan was called upon his boss to create a series for Marvel Comics.
Due to this, Stan Lee created the Fantastic 4 series in 1961. Additionally, he co-created the Hulk, Spider-Man, Dr Strange, Daredevil, and the X-Men. All of these superheroes are some of the most popular today. Thanks to the brilliance of Stan, Marvel Comics soon became highly popular throughout many countries. In the year 1972, Stan was promoted to editorial director and publisher for the infamous company and later moved to the West coast to be involved in Marvel’s film adventures. He later had a cameo with in the first ever Marvel movie, Iron Man One. Some cameos that Stan Lee has been in almost every Marvel movie including Deadpool 1, both of the Thor movies, the Avengers movies, Captain America movies, Spiderman movies, and countless
more. Stan Lee was married on December 5, 1947 to Joan Boocock Lee, who sadly died after almost seventy years of marriage on July 6, 2017 due to stroke complications at the age of 95. During all of those glorious years of marriage, Joan and Stan had two daughters, Joan Cecilia Lee and Jan Lee. Joan, born in the year 1950, is now an actress and producer, even starring in some Marvel movies. Stan’s youngest daughter, Jann Lee, sadly died three days after being born in 1953. Stan Lee is now 94 and planning to be in many more hilarious cameos still waiting to be released. Some of the movies still yet to be released include Deadpool 2, Thor Ragnarok, Black Panther, and both Infinity War part 1 and 2. If it wasn’t for Stan Lee, many of Marvel’s popular characters wouldn’t have been created and Marvel would not be has popular as it is right now. With Stan’s help, Marvel’s popularity has risen and still continues to rise today. We should thank this wonderful man for the many laughs he has given us, for the Marvel movies wouldn’t be as funny as they are now if Stan Lee didn’t contribute to the scripts. Thanks to Stan, Marvel movies tell a story, but they aren’t bland. The movies are able to make everyone watching them chortle.
In 1979 a man named Joe Montana was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. In just two seasons he led the 49ers to their first ever super bowl, and on January 24, 1982, the legend of “Joe Cool” was born. For many years Joe was seen as the greatest QB of all time. He would go on to win three more championships and 3 Super Bowl MVPs while completing many late-game comebacks. He was looked up to many people including a tall, skinny, unathletic kid from San Mateo, California who would grow up to surpass his idol as the greatest QB of all time.
Since Marvel’s booming popularity in the 1960s, Lee has found himself the figurehead and public representative of the company.
One way he influenced the comic book world was by revolutionizing the way characters behaved in his stories. Many of the characters in the older comic books were given makeovers to make the audiences like them more because they were flat and lacked emotion. This was called the Silver Age of Comics. The older characters lacked a personality. Stan Lee was an office assistant at Timely Comics in 1939 and soon after that he became an interim editor in the 1940s (Stan). When Martin Goodman, the publisher of Marvel Comics, Timely Comic’s new name, since 1939, asked Stan Lee to create a team of superheroes better than the Justice League of America, their rival in comic books, Stan Lee had his doubts. Mr. Goodman thought that comic books should be dumbed down because they were for “stupid children.” Stan Lee did not agree with Martin Goodman’s idea. Stan Lee already wanted to quit, so his wife advised him to go ahead and write the story the way he wanted to write it. If Goodman fired him it would be okay since he already was contemplating quitting. Lee decided to write a story about four people who got superpowers after an accident in space. They were completely different from other superheroes because they did not wear costumes. The story was also based in New York City instead of Metropolises or Gotham City like Superman and Batman. These characters also had a real personality along with a real job, no secret identity, or alter egos. This story was known as the Fantastic Four. It was extremely different than many other comic books. (Garcia)
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In 1941, a young man by the name Steve Rogers attempted to join the army on five separate occasions, but was rejected each time due to his scrawny physique. His ambition along with “his courage, intelligence and willingness to risk death for his country” caught the attention of U.S. Army General Chester Philips, who inducted him into a top secret government experiment known as Operation Rebirth. Abraham Erskine, the brain behind the experiment, developed a “Super Serum” that allowed its subjects to reach maximum physical potential. When Steve Rogers was injected with the serum, he gained superhuman strength, speed, and agility, and thus Captain America was born. This comic book super hero was made in 1941 by Jewish writers Jack Kirby and Joe
As Walt grew, so did his Imagination. The more famous he got the more ideas and dreams he could make a reality. Working out of his Uncles cramped garage, in the sweltering California heat was over. Walt had begun a new chapter in his life. Now receiving countless Oscar Nominations, and being eulogized for his many movies and cartoons. Where up to this point in his life he had many role models and people he looked up to, now he was a role model to many people. Walt Disney impacted the lives of many aspiring filmmakers, and changed the movie industry.
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...lped build the film and animation world. With the help of his team, they created four theme parks and two water parks in the heart of Florida. They also expanded and placed theme parks in other countries. The success that Walt Disney had is to this day unbelievable. The effort he put into the film business and into the everything he did is outstanding. He was a truly talented man who strived for the best and produced nothing less, allowing him to be at the top of his game. Striving and pushing forward with his natural talent of the creative arts and entertainment, Mr. Walt Disney became one of the most well-known entertainers who is mentioned all around the world. Giving him popularity through his great animation and artistic works but also with his world famous characters and popular theme parks. Walt Disney was truly a success in America and all around the world.
In 1941, Stan Lee, the creator of the Marvel universe, released his firs comic book about the patriotic hero Captain America. This comic was released during World War 2 to give the Americans a sense of hope and to let people know that we’re not alone. Marvel does a good job with its comics because they want to show you that even when times get tough, as long as you have hope things will get better. A good example of this would be Spiderman. When his Uncle Ben died, his last words to Peter were, “With great power, comes great responsibility.” Spiderman goes on to
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Carl Jung was a well-known and influential psychologist of the 20th century. He founded many psychological ideas such as extroverted and introverted personalities, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. Jung’s main focus, within his studies, was psychology but he also incorporated other subjects such as religion, mythology, and alchemy. He developed a rapid interest in alchemy late in life, after having a vivid dream about a library of archaic books. He eventually came to have a library like this as his own. After intensive research, Carl Jung adapted the notion that alchemy was a metaphor for the psychological processes rather than being an actual alchemical experiment. Some of his developed ideas included the thought that the contents of the alchemists’ psyche became unconsciously projected on the materials. Jung was able to align alchemical symbols with his theories in psychology, creating further and in depth ideas. He also believed that the alchemical language, which was used during experiments or later to describe them, was an expression of the psychological processes. Formulating his own perspective on the ideas of alchemy was the turning point in Carl Jung’s career, leading to a substantial change in his approach to psychology in that he was able to match alchemical symbols with his theory of individuation.
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