Created Fantastic Four, Spiderman, X-Men, and the Hulk. |
Stan Lee was on a promo commercial for the series Striperella. |
Stan Lee is married to Joan Lee, the person who played Madame Web on "Spider-Man". |
Stan Lee has stated that he is a big fan of Kevin Smith. |
Stan Lee appeared as himself on Kevin Smith's "Mallrats" (1995). |
Stan Lee didn't know much about spiders when creating Spider-Man. |
Stan Lee added a hyphen when creating Spider-Man's name so it would not be easily confused with Superman, though despite his best efforts, many spell Spider-Man as "Spiderman". |
Proof of the above trivia is when you perform a Google search on Google.com on "Spider-Man", you will be asked if you mean "Spiderman". |
Stan Lee was accused to stealing the idea of "Stripperella". |
Stan Lee appeared as himself in the "Spider-Man" (1994) television series. |
Stan Lee did a interview made for DVD called "Stan Lee's Monsters, Marvels, and Mutants", in which he was interviewed by Kevin Smith on his creations and life at Marvel Comics. |
Stan Lee wrote the popular poem "God Woke". |
Stan Lee recited the poem "God Woke" on his "Stan Lee's Monsters, Marvels, and Mutants" DVD in the extras section, which he also wrote. |
Stan Lee's trademark phrase was "Excelsior!" at one point, which was the official motto of New York. |
The idea of a superhero with the powers of a spider was turned down by the editor of Marvel Comics, as he felt that people hate spiders, so they wouldn't want to read about a person with the powers of one. |
Stan Lee was once president of Marvel Comics, though he believed that it wasn't for him; he enjoyed writing for comics much more than handling the business of producing them. |
...which he used larger and more intelligent words than before. He figured that if he was going to quit, he was going to get that off his chest. The comic turned out to be a hit, and he stayed with Marvel Comics. |
Stan Lee has stated that he was contemplating quiting writing comics, as the editor wouldn't let him write with words that were too big, as he believed only kids were reading them. Stan Lee decided to write Fantastic Four as his final comic, in... |