The late and great Stan Lee is best remembered for being the face of Marvel, and steering the ship from the Silver Age of Comics to the rise of the superhero film sub-genre during the early ‘00s.
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Stan Lee was good at projecting an air of hipness. Nowhere was that more apparent than in his dealings with a reporter named Nat Freedland (né Friedland; he changed it for his byline because he “thought