Long before the "real" world accepted and respected nerds...
...Stan (the Man) Lee showed being a nerd was KOOL!
The co-creator (along with amazing illustrator/storytellers like Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Gene Colan, John Buscema, John Romita Sr, Marie Severin, and many others) of the pop culture monolith we know as Marvel, the guy originally-named Stanley Martin Leiber re-defined the four-color comic industry during the 1960s not only as a scripter for most of the books, but as as the company's editor/art director, inserting his style/vision/viewpoint into every aspect of the comics!
Note: it was that sheer workload that forced him to switch from the usual format of "full script" provided to artists to the "Marvel Method" of a plotting session with the illustrators, who had enormous latitude in interpreting the flow of the tale...as long as it finished after 20 pages at the plot point the team discussed!
While most of you know him as the crotchety old guy who pops up briefly in movies and TV shows, I remember the vibrant, snarky, (but always fun) adult with the "big kid" persona of the Silver Age, as shown above from the inside cover to
Marvel's Fantasy Masterpieces #1 (1967).
You can peruse our numerous entries featuring his work by clicking
HERE.
There's a lot of them, but they're worth the effort!
BTW,
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder will return next week with the finale of the current
Atari Force story.
But we couldn't let this day pass without some celebration!
EXCELSIOR!!!
