Disney+ documentary takes a charmingly opinionated look at the father of modern comics.
There's a difference between ego and self-mythologizing. Or rather, the two personality traits are part of a Venn diagram, and their sets cross over more in some people than others. So while comics legend Stan Lee undoubtedly had an ego, the myth of Stan Lee – the narrative of his life – was a tale he carefully curated.
After all, Lee's first comics weren't about superheroics: He lucked in by realizing that he could make accounting less boring for the military by putting it in the funny pages. Gelb presents Lee as a regular schmo who made brawny superheroes into regular schmoes, and that's why other regular schmoes could identify with them. As Lee puts it, his stories were about"good guys who occasionally fall on their faces [and] bad guys you can almost relate to. ...
There's an old story that, when asked what the difference was between Marvel and DC, Lee responded that they're both set in big cities, but the Marvel buildings were the only ones that had plumbing in the basement. His characters were grounded, often reflecting parts of Lee's own life, just as the fractious but loving family dynamics of the Fantastic Four echoed the dynamics of the legendary Marvel Bullpen.
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