(photo by Alan Light)
Stan Lee, former president of Marvel Comics, co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, and several other comic book characters.
In 1998, he started Stan Lee Media, a new internet-based production and marketing studio, which grew to 165 people and went public. He produced the animated web series The 7th Portal and voiced the characters Izayus, The Drifter, and The Accuser.
Near the end of 2000, investigators discovered illegal stock manipulation and in February 2001, Stan Lee Media filed for bankruptcy. Stan Lee’s lawyer Peter Paul fled to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Excelsior!
In 2003, Lee created the animated series Stripperella for Spike TV, which was cancelled after thirteen episodes. In 2004, he announced plans to collaborate with Hugh Hefner on a superhero cartoon featuring Playboy Playmates and announced another superhero show that would feature Ringo Starr as the lead character. ‘Natch!
On July 27, 2006, Who Wants to Be a Superhero? starring Stan Lee debuted on the Sci Fi Channel. At the July 2007 Comic-Con International, Hasbro introduced a Stan Lee action figure. ‘Nuff said!
Stan Lee Media (SLM) was saved from annihilation in 2006 when it was dismissed from Chapter 11 in Nov 2006 by shareholders led by whistleblower Jim Nesfield. The company not only was never bankrupt-( Lee had colluded with Marvel to hide what became rights worth more than $1 billion relating to Lee’s complete assignment of all IP rights he owned “in the creative universe” in October 1998 to SLM- two months BEFORE he entered into a new contract with Marvel Entertainment- which Marvel hid from the SEC and shareholders for four years until 2002.
The frauds committed by Lee and insiders of SLM after they kicked Peter Paul out of the company are detailed in the lawsuits pending against Lee and POW Entertainment by Stan Lee Media- see on http://www.stanleemedia.net
Sheesh, looks like we stepped into some of Stan the Man’s doo doo.
hey, big fan of Marvel and Stan Lee.
But never knew what he looked like. Being from the channel island Jersey UK.
However, while searching for someone else on the internet.
Your photo came up of Stan Lee, which i didn’t know was Stan Lee.
Anyway, after reading your site logo on the corner of the photo I searched your site and found that the photo was Stan Lee.
The reason I was a little shocked to find the photo is that the photo looks almost exactly how my ex-karate instructor looked during the 80’s.
He was one of the original students of the late Grand Master Ed Parker of American Kenpo Fame and who was associated with Elvis Presley due to being one of his main body guards and karate instructors.
Anyway, here is a link to his karate studio’s site to see if you can see the similarities.
http://www.glkenpo.com/Kenpo/Home.html
:-)
Hey, perhaps there clones….uncanny.
Think that Graham may have photos of himself during the era that he most closely resembled Stan Lee.
Cheers