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Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee

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The man at the back of Spider-Man, The X-Men, The Improbable Hulk, and a legion of other superheroes tells his own amazing story in a book packed with punch, humor, anecdotes, and a gallery of never-before-seen photographs.

Stan Lee is the most legendary name in the history of comicbooks. The leading creative force at the back of the upward thrust of Marvel Comics, he brought to life one of the most world’s best-known heroes and most infamous villains. His stories, featuring super- heroes who struggled against personal hang-usaand bad guys who possessed in the past unseen psychological complexity, added wit and subtlety to a field in the past locked into flat portrayals of good vs. evil. Lee put the human in the super-human. In the process, he created a new mythology for the twentieth century.
On this treasure trove of marvelous memories, Stan tells the story of his life with the same inimitable wit, energy, and offbeat spirit that he brought to the world of comicbooks. He moves from his impoverished childhood in Manhattan to his early days writing comicbooks, followed by military training films all the way through World War II, through the upward thrust of the Marvel empire in the 1960s to his latest adventures in Hollywood.
The story of a man who earned respect by blazing new creative trails in a storytelling form once dismissed as just for kids, Excelsior! is an inspirational story about following one’s vision, no matter the odds. Yet it is also the story of how one of the most most exciting and memorable characters in the pop-culture universe came to thrill a generation.

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