This is how I first saw Stan Lee in the 1960s...
...as the host/showman of Marvel's Fantasy Masterpieces reprint anthology!
But, he had already made several appearances in the comics themselves...as a character!
In this fourth-wall breaking tale where we met the creatives behind Timely's Terry-Toons Comics, we don't see Stan until the end of the story...
...since, at the time of this tale (Terry-Toons Comics #12 in 1943), he was only the office boy at Timely (though he didn't have red hair)!
Stan wrote Secrets Behind the Comics in 1947, expanding on an article he had penned for Writers' Digest!
...and had, in five years, become Managing Editor and Art Director!
We've already run most of the book...
...and the rest will follow this week!
Stan preferred to stay behind the scenes, but the early 1950s persecution of comics as being the driving force behind juvenile delinquency compelled him to script a tale...
Stan preferred to stay behind the scenes, but the early 1950s persecution of comics as being the driving force behind juvenile delinquency compelled him to script a tale...
...Raving Maniac!...where he explains how comics are no different than other forms of children's literature!
Be here tomorrow, as we continue our look at Stan Lee in the comics...
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