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...Stan Lee admits that he has wondered the same thing for years. He hasn't come up with a satisfactory answer, even though he has been writing comic books for over three decades now. That's a lot of tall buildings and speeding trains. He used to write a complete comic book a day. "In fact," he says proudly, "somebody figured out for me once, that I have written more stories that have been published than anyone who has ever lived, since Adam and Eve." He sighs. "That's why I'm tired...
...most natural thing in the world that I ended up being a writer. Years ago, there was this thing called the WPA Federal Theater--Orson Welles belonged to it, I belonged to it. I like to think that somewhere Orson Welles is being interviewed and he's saying, 'Yeah, Stan belonged to it.' You couldn't make any money in those days at it, and I had a family to support, so I got all kinds of little writing jobs. I worked for a newspaper syndicate service that wrote obituaries of people who were still alive, so that when they...
...fact is that Stan Lee does regard his work as a serious endeavor. He contends that his comics are very educational, and obviously has no worries about their potential for stunting the intellectual growth of young minds. Behind this view is a genuine belief in the validity of comic books as an art form. He regards Marvel Comics as the highest expression of the genre. "Our stories are very well-written for comics," he contends. "They're much better written than people would expect, which is why they like them when they see them. They're beautifully illustrated. It shouldn...
...only vulgar observation and surprisingly, they all slip by inoffensively. But Peter Fletcher's version of the naive cop doesn't jibe with his cohort's naturalness. His lithe, eager responses to the fat cop are always a little too slow in coming--his resemblance to an inept Stan Laurel fails to complement Suchecki's realistic performance...
...minutes later, after taking Stan Dorn's place at the electric piano, leaning back and orchestrating one solo after another by the students around him, McCann had the somewhat stale after-lunch crowd on its feet...