Spider-Man Creator, Stan Lee, is one of us

[MrScorpio]

$20,000 to Dems

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=LOS+ANGELES&st=CA&last=lee&first=stan

[andino]

1. Stan Lee

Great Guy.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. ..

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Stan's the man!!

After that idiot - fuckin' what's his name that took over Marvel - screwed Lee...well, I for one am a big Stan Lee supporter, and never had any doubts he was a good democrat and believed in America and what this country is SUPPOSED to be about. I mean, this is the guy who came up with Captain America, for chrissakes.

[Nevernose]

4. Avi Arad?

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. No, Jim Shooter

or something like that. Scooter? :-) Jon Shooter?

Can't quite get the name, but I'm thinking it was Jim Shooter.

[Khephra]

8. Jim Shooter

Sad news is that the rumor mill has been saying that Shooter has been hired back at Marvel in some sort of a capacity. I don't see why. None of his work was that good, imo.

[mac56]

10. Not to split hairs-

but Captain America was a "Golden Age" character from back in WWII. Long before Stan the Man burst onto the scene. Stan, however, did resurrect Cap (literally!) and bring him back into the Marvel Universe.

Carry on -

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Whooops, my bad on that one

You're right - Cap was there quite a while before Lee. Thanks for the reminder!

[Khephra]

14. Joe Simon and Kirby are both credited with being his creator

http://www.toonopedia.com/capamer.htm

In fact, both of their estates tried to get the rights back just a short time ago.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. Did the same for Namor the Sub-Mariner

Also a "Golden Age" character. Lee had Johnyy Storm, the Human Torch, find him as an amnesiac homeless man. He recognizes Namor from the "history books" and then flies him over the ocean and drops him to restore his memory.

[Khephra]

18. There's also the original Human Torch

(Not Johnny Storm) who came back decades later too.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. Who's a robot, unlike the FF one who is a human.

They coexist in the Marvel Universe. (unless the robot has ben destroyed and I don't know)

[Khephra]

21. I think they killed him off again recently

Last I saw of him he was the boss of Power-man and Iron Fist, but that was a few years ago.

Gods, I hope there's some money in me writing comics someday. I know way too much of this shit.

:crazy:

[Gemini Cat]

5. Thanks MrScorpio

You made my day.
Stan Lee rocks!

[Debs]

6. Of Course

He is, I used to collect Marvel comics was there ever any doubt?

[DerekG]

9. He's also a liberal...

Have you read The Silver Surfer comics he penned in the late 60's? Wonderful subtext.

Christ in space, man.

[NewJeffCT]

11. I used to collect comics

But stopped in the early 90s when my comic habit starting getting up to $25-$50 per week in new comics.

However, a lot of Marvel Comics had some fairly liberal themes in them addressing things like racism, classism, media responsibility (J. Jonah Jameson's obsession with 'getting' Spider-Man is almost like Scaife's trying to get the Clintons) and more...

I was just thinking the other day about the "What If?" series of comics (they may still have it) and a storyline they had about Captain America, where he, if history had gone slightly differently, inadvertantly gave rise to a fascist/nazi like takeover of America and his face was the one promoting it, (Commercial - "Capt America says national ID cards are good for America" - and this was back in the 70s or 80s)

[Khephra]

12. "What if?" isn't being published anymore

But Marvel does put out "What if?" style stories fairly often. They're just not called "What if?" anymore.

Sad to say, but Marvel has been trying to make Cap more relevant to the times, and their efforts have ranged from making him a Bushie "Act-firster" to the more traditional 70's Cap.

Marvel even recently brought back the Reagan-era anti-Captain Cap as the new leader of an anti-Terrorist "Invaders".

[redqueen]

15. Now that's some damn good news!

Not really surprising that he's one of us, but that contribution... he ROCKS! Not that I didn't know that before... but more evidence never hurts.

Thanks for sharing! :)

[Khephra]

17. Scroll down this site

http://www.deansplanet.com/thefinger.html

And you'll see my favorite picture of Lee EVER!

[Aristus]

20. I gave up comic books before I hit my teens, but I'm glad to

discover that they have an (overall) liberal bent. Makes me feel good.