Photos : 9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Stan Lee
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During an era where comics were highly censored and supervised, Stan Lee was the first to incorporate drug use into his stories, through a Spider-Man storyline where Harry Osborne takes LSD
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In 2003 he created Stripperella, an adult cartoon, with the help of Pamela Anderson who voiced the character
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Stan Lee created more than 200 characters in total for the Marvel universe, including the Avengers, the original X-Men, the Fantastic Four and many others…
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Stan Lee never went to… the hairdresser. As he said in his biography, ‘All of my adult life I never went to the hairdresser. My wife Joanie always cuts my hair for me.’
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At first Stan Lee wanted the Hulk to be… grey. But the printer who edited his comics could not maintain colour consistency. He thus became green starting with the second issue.
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He is the wealthiest filmmaker in history. Always credited as an executive producer, he made £8.5 billion total for all the films featuring his characters
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The very first hero he created was the Destroyer, a journalist captured by Nazis and genetically transformed by German scientists. He appeared for the first time in October 1941
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Before his success he wrote celebrity obituaries at a New York press office. A job which he quit because it was too ‘depressing.’ We can definitely sympathise…
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Stan Lee briefly went from Marvel to DC Comics. In a series entitled Just Imagine, he developed his personal vision of the DC heroes, Superman becoming a Kryptonian police officer accidentally teleported to Earth…