Stan Lee's American Pantheon: Why Stan Lee's Comic Creations are More Than Just Men in Tights
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Sep 15, 2020 11:00
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There’s a paragraph, early on in Liel Leibovitz’s life of Stan Lee, that pretty much causes the jaw to hit the floor and the eyeballs to pop out. It was late 1961 and comics were in the doldrums: the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s attack on the industry as damaging to children had led it to adopt a prudish Comics Code to avoid government regulation. Seriously considering quitting Atlas Comics (later called Marvel) for good, Stan Lee hunkered down with the artist Jack Kirby and created the Fantastic Four. As Leibovitz ably describes, the Four were like nothing that had come before: superpowered, yes, but bickering and uncertain—polyvalent. They were morally and personally complex and relatable in ways that the old superheroes in whose shadow they were born were not.
In Stan Lee's American Pantheon: Why Stan Lee's comic creations are more than just men in tights, Sam Leith explores Liel Leibovitz's book on Stan Lee and together with him we start more and more to appreciate the value of Stan Lee's contributions to our culture
Link to the original article:
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/stan-lee-marvel-dc-comic-books-american-pantheon
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