Without a doubt, the father of comics, Stan Lee, is one of the most influential people of the entire 20th century, basically because he is responsible for creating such beloved comic characters as the Avengers, Spider-Man, the X-Men or The Fantastic 4, along with such legendary cartoonists Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko.
A life without stopping to work
It is because of this impressive resume that his passing in 2018 saddened all fans, many of whom are still depressed to this day. It is to make these people happy that we have decided to delve into the career of the American who, in addition to the countless cameos that he starred in his own productions, also left us some milestones that it remains to be seen that someone manages to overcome.
Here you have the six data that mark a relevant character in the world of leisure in the last 80 years.
His films are the highest grossing
If we take a look at the top 15 of the films that have raised the most money worldwide, we find that characters created by Lee appear in 6 of them , and if we add all their collections, we get a cumulative of 10.7 billion dollars. What a real madness!
One of his first jobs was writing obituaries
You have to start somewhere, and that is that Stan Lee began to earn money writing obituaries of people who had recently died. Perhaps from this experience he got his mania for constantly killing and resurrecting characters and creating multiverses with infinite lives for all his heroes and villains.
When he retired, he dedicated time to DC Comics
Said like this, it seems that Stan was a vile traitor, but rest assured that everything is simpler. In 2001, DC gave Stan Lee the opportunity to reimagine his three biggest characters, Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman within a collection called Just Imagine . It could be said that it was a kind of What If…? but within the competition.
Stan Lee also exists within the Marvel universe
In the Earth 1218 comic there is the character of Stan Lee, since this dimension corresponded to the real world . As we can see, the Marvel multiverse is a very peculiar place and someone as important as its great creators could not be missing.
His first job was “filling” a box
Glory is not always achieved first. A young Stan Lee got his first break within the Marvel company by filling in a simple text box within the third Captain America comic which, by way of curiosity, is the first story in which Steve Rogers does his iconic shield throw. That was the start of it all…
He was a pioneer in representing the dangers of drugs
In the 1970s, with drug use on the rise in America, Stan was asked to make a comic portraying the dangers of taking drugs. What Lee did was create a Spider-Man story where Harry Osborn had a bad experience with LSD . Although the censors did not give him permission, the King of Cameos decided to publish it on his own account, assuming the consequences that may arise. This comic finally brought a lot of prestige and admiration to the then editor-in-chief of the company.