Stan Lee
Entertainment Weekly|November 30, 2018

After helping create countless characters with seminal story lines, Stan Lee leaves behind a legacy bigger than them all. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige shares what “The Man” meant to him, and the world.

Kevin Feige
Stan Lee

You’ve heard the legend, which I think is true, that when Stan Lee was a young writer at Marvel Comics he was tired of doing the same old thing, and his wife, Joan, encouraged him to write the kind of stories he wanted to read.

THAT’S WHAT LED TO THE FANTASTIC FOUR.

Then Hulk, and Spider-Man. Then Iron Man, and the X-Men, and everything else. He realized in the midst of his amazing 1960s run what he was creating, that people were responding to his characters the same way he responded to ancient myths that he read as a kid, and he went, “Wait a minute. Lemme turn one of those characters into a hero.” And we got Thor, we got Odin, we got Loki, we got Hela.

This story is from the November 30, 2018 edition of Entertainment Weekly.

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