Stan Lee has been gone a whole year
 Stan Lee December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018 |
One of my friends, whom I'm ashamed to say I can't recall his name, had a playhouse of sorts. I had a similar structure in my back yard but his was much more frou frou and 'little girlish' if you will while mine was a rugged thing once a tool shed or workshop or something.
Anyway we would sit in his playhouse and read boxes of comic books stored there and I mean to tell you there must have been thousands.
It was there that I received my first introduction to Stan Lee.
Stanley Martin Lieber, aka Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer and gifted productive visionary of the media arts passed this earthly existence but a year ago.
He was a fixture in my life since childhood, being the comic book aficionado I was from early childhood his work was my entertainment and I always enjoyed it immensely.
He grew a family business into Marvel Comics and served as the primary creative leadership which dominated the comics industry for as long as I can remember.
Stan was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.
He received the NEA's National Medal of Arts in 2008.
My particular favorites in his repetoire were those cameos in the various marvel group movies where he would portray some happenstance character.
Oh, how those memories still warm my heart.