Stan "The Man" Lee: the personification of Americana.
Stan "The Man" Lee: the personification of Americana.
_2. He Was the Quintessential American
His was a purely American success story. He was born to Romanian immigrant parents in 1922 New York City; his name was Stanley Lieber, and by the time he was a teenager, he was working odd jobs from newspaper sales to writing obituaries in order to help support his family in their one-bedroom, third-floor Bronx apartment. After graduating from high school, he started as a gofer at a small comic-book publishing company and then worked his way up. His career took a side path when he served in World War II, making training films and manuals with other soon-to-be luminaries, from Charles Addams to Frank Capra to Theodore “Dr. Seuss” Geisel. When he returned to the public sector, he continued to work in whatever he could, from comic books to Hollywood take-offs. Then came the Marvel revolution — a thing that, if not of his own design, was at least his own responsibility to publicize — and his fortunes rose. Stan Lee was proud and bombastic, but he was also generous and kind. He valued heart and hard work. He was positive, he was sunny, he was braggadocious, and he was winning. He was the best of America, because he believed in the dream. So did his many creations and co-creations. His was a world in which any of us could be heroes, whether we’d been bitten by a radioactive spider or exposed to gamma rays or cosmic rays or an experiment of our own making._
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_2. He Was the Quintessential American
His was a purely American success story. He was born to Romanian immigrant parents in 1922 New York City; his name was Stanley Lieber, and by the time he was a teenager, he was working odd jobs from newspaper sales to writing obituaries in order to help support his family in their one-bedroom, third-floor Bronx apartment. After graduating from high school, he started as a gofer at a small comic-book publishing company and then worked his way up. His career took a side path when he served in World War II, making training films and manuals with other soon-to-be luminaries, from Charles Addams to Frank Capra to Theodore “Dr. Seuss” Geisel. When he returned to the public sector, he continued to work in whatever he could, from comic books to Hollywood take-offs. Then came the Marvel revolution — a thing that, if not of his own design, was at least his own responsibility to publicize — and his fortunes rose. Stan Lee was proud and bombastic, but he was also generous and kind. He valued heart and hard work. He was positive, he was sunny, he was braggadocious, and he was winning. He was the best of America, because he believed in the dream. So did his many creations and co-creations. His was a world in which any of us could be heroes, whether we’d been bitten by a radioactive spider or exposed to gamma rays or cosmic rays or an experiment of our own making._
https://www.westword.com/arts/stan-lee-changed-the-world-in-at-least-seven-ways-10998306
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