Marvel Legends Series Action Figure Stan Lee (Marvel’s The Avengers) 15 cm
Action Figures Marvel Stan Lee
From Hasbro’s “Marvel Legends” series comes this fully articulated action figure. She is about 15 cm tall and comes incl. Accessories supplied in a window box.
Stan Lee was an American comic book writer and editor, actor and film producer. Together with cartoonists like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he created a series of superheroes for Marvel Comics. Lee and his collaborators were the first to bring complex characters and a thoughtful shared universe to the world of superhero comics. He turned the small publisher Marvel Comics into a major media company. From 2000 until his death, he regularly featured with cameos in film adaptations of Marvel comics.
In the late 1950s, DC Comics revived the superhero genre. The rebooted series The Flash and Justice League of America were very successful, and Martin Goodman commissioned Lee to create a new superhero team. Lee then created the superhero group Fantastic Four with Jack Kirby in 1961, who became known in German-speaking countries as “Die Fantastischen Vier”.
After the successful launch of the series, Lee and Kirby created The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor and X-Men shortly thereafter. With Bill Everett, Lee created Daredevil, and with Steve Ditko, Doctor Strange and Spider-Man. These characters helped reinvent the superhero genre. Lee gave his protagonists flaws and problems. His heroes had tantrums, were melancholic, vain or greedy. They fought with each other, had problems paying the rent, and some had health problems. Lee wrote characters that readers could identify with, rather than the infallible idols that superheroes had been before.
In the 1960s, Lee was a writer and editor for most of the Marvel series, responding to fan letters and writing the monthly column Stan’s Soapbox. In order to meet the deadline, Lee invented his own style of comic scripting (known as Marvel-style of comic scripting). He created a summary of the story instead of a full script. An experienced draftsman expanded the synopsis to the required number of pages, and Lee added text and dialogue to the finished drawings. The illustrators thus became co-authors of the comics. Through this system, however, it is disputed how many comics bearing Lee’s name were actually penned by him. This is especially true of comics written with Kirby and Ditko. Lee always denied allegations that he wanted to take credit himself and exploited the cartoonists.