Excelior:The Amazing Life of Stan Lee - Hardcover

This long-awaited autobiography of an icon of the comic world coincides with the release of the spring's most eagerly anticipated blockbuster, Spider-Man. Stan Lee is the Marvel Comics supremo who created Spider-Man, X-Men and The Incredible Hulk. This fascinating memoir traces Lee's life from growing up in a modest New York Jewish family, and his first job as a gofer at Timely Comics. He was made creative director, enlisted when the war broke out, and was one of only eight US Army playwrights alongside such luminaries as Frank Capra. Lee went back to comics after the war as the creative force behind Marvel, selling over two billion comics the world over. Packed with previously unseen photos and artwork from Lee's personal archive, this will be essential reading for students of popular culture.

Stan Lee is the man who through Marvel Comics created "Spider-Man", "The X-Men", and "The Incredible Hulk" among others and has been in the business for over 40 years. This memoir traces Lee's life from grwing up in a modest Jewish family in New York, getting his first story published in a magazine aged 17, his first job as a gofer at Timely Comics where he worked with Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. He was made creative director aged 18 when they left, enlisted when the war broke out and was one of only 8 U.S. Army playwrights alongside such luminaries as Frank Capra. Lee went back to comics after the war as the creative force behind Marvel, selling over two billion comics to young, and not so the young, the world over. This book is packed with never-before-seen photos and artwork from Lee's personal archive and should be of interest to all Marvel fans.