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Stan Lee s pre-Marvel movie cameos speak volumes about the comic creator

He was written of lovingly in trendy media outlets like The Village Voice and New York magazine. He regularly spoke to auditoriums full of rapt college students. He hadn’t quite assumed the look, speaking style, or place in mainstream culture that he eventually came to be known for, but his voice and face were ubiquitous if you were a Marvelhead and Kaufman was very much one of those. He’d just graduated from Yale (“The only thing I learned there, aside from drugs and a smattering of Chinese Studies, which was my major, were comic books,” he says) and wanted to make it in motion pictures. So when he had the wild idea to combine his interests and see if Lee would do a movie with him, he looked up Marvel in the phone book and rolled the dice. “I called up and then he got on the phone,” Kaufman recalled to me. “I said, ‘I’m a big fan. I wanna make movies.’” In Kaufman’s recollection, Stan’s reply was swift: “Come on over.”

Articles by Gina Barreca

Ms. Magazine. Gina’s new book is Fast Funny Women, a collection of 75 flash nonfiction essays. Author of ten books and editor of eleven others, her works have been translated into several languages. Gina has appeared on CNN, PBS, the BBC, 20/20, 48 Hours, the Today Show, NPR, and Oprah as an expert on women, humor, and cultural politics. One of the first women to graduate from Dartmouth College in its early years of coeducation, she was the first woman to be named Alumni scholar by that college; her papers have been requested by Dartmouth’s special collections library. She was a Reynolds’s Fellow at New Hall (now Murray Edwards) College at Cambridge University and received her Ph.D. at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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