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Intrepid comic book writer, challenger of the Comics Code Authority, and eventual president and chairman of Marvel Comics, Stan Lee is a well-known name to any comics enthusiast.
In cooperation with other authors, Lee helped create such great characters as Spiderman and the Hulk, while also buffing up Marvel’s superhero teams with the Fantastic Four and the X-Men. In recent years, more of his cooperative creations have seen the silver screen in a big way, with the X-Men alone tallying five live-action movies since 2000.Never heard of this before? Get up to speed here. One of the first comic book writers to come up with multi-dimensional, ‘flawed’ characters, Stan Lee helped change the superhero fad into the long-lasting institution it is known as today.
With a sense of daring previously unknown to the comic book industry, Stan Lee pushed boundaries with most of his works. The X-Men have long been associated with the gay community in spirit, and were actually the first comic book series to feature implied homosexuality and characters with ambiguous gender. One of the issues of Spiderman that Lee worked on was actually released without the CCA seal due to its depiction of drug use, despite that the use was portrayed in a negative light.
Clearly a fan of social commentary and subtext in his work, Stan Lee is an artist whose legacy lives on regardless of era because of the universal human truths his well-conceptualized characters represent.