Origins of Marvel Comics

Stan Lee

Simon and Schuster, 1974 - Literary Criticism - 254 pages

Reprints stories (with commentary by Stan Lee) from Fantastic Four #1 and 55 (Silver Surfer), The incredible Hulk #1 and 118, Amazing fantasy #15, Amazing Spider-Man #72, Journey into mystery #83, Thor #143, Strange tales #110, 115 and 155 (Dr. Strange).

Contents

• Section 1: 33
• Section 2: 48
• Section 3: 91

About the author

Stan Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in Manhattan, New York on December 28, 1922. During World War II, he wrote training manuals stateside in the Army Signal Corps while moonlighting as a comics writer. He joined Marvel Comics in the early 1940s and worked there for 60 years. He was a central player in the creation of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and the X-Men. He wrote several books including Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee written with George Mair, Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir written with Peter David, and A Trick of Light written with Kat Rosenfield. He died on November 12, 2018 at the age of 95.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Origins of Marvel Comics; Fireside book
• Author: Stan Lee
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 1974
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 23, 2008
• ISBN: 0671218646, 9780671218645
• Length: 254 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Comics & Graphic Novels; Social Science / Media Studies