Stan the Man

By now, word has undoubtedly reached you. Marvel Comics creator, Stan Lee, has left this green Earth. To the uninitiated, he’s the guy whose cameos in the myriad of Marvel movies were always worth a snicker. To the fans, he was the face of the revolutionary comic book franchise who begat all the ink-and-paper greatness we’ve come to know as cinematic gospel. To his critics, he took too much of the credit for Marvel’s accomplishments without the acknowledgement of his talented team—especially of artist Jack Kirby. Regardless which describes you, the fact remains he was the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel when all the heroes and heroines we’ve come to know as household names were created, starting with Kirby’s Fantastic Four in 1961, and onto the X-Men, Ant Man and the Wasp, Spiderman, Captain America, Black Panther, Dr. Strange… and the list goes on. The truth is, he was one of our last living touchstones to a time when seemingly everything good was coming to light—and, not just during the Silver Age of Comics. To the Brophisticate staff, he’ll be remembered for taking time in the middle of dinner at a New York restaurant to offer an exclusive interview regarding the world of Marvel for Maxim magazine. A prince of a guy, we sadly say “Excelsior!” to Stan the Man.