I think there was one sentence about his wife of 69 years passing away. I do understand that Lee was a huge driving and creative force behind Marvel but it feels like a biography about Lee should have at least some parts that are about his personal life instead of just his life at Marvel. Hardly any words are spent on Lee’s private life, only on what was happening at Marvel and how it related to Lee. Once Lee begins working at Marvel there is really no difference between his life and the progression of Marvel Comics for Batchelor. Batchelor does share some of Lee’s life before Marvel but even then, he spends more time talking about the state of the comic publishing industry than he does about little Stanley Lieber. Very little time is spent talking about Lee’s life before or outside of comics. He presents the growth of the two together so that the distinction between the man and the company is often blurred. The story of a man or a company?īatchelor’s depiction of Stan Lee’s life is told through the lens of Marvel Comics. Bob Batchelor’s unauthorized biography, Stan Lee: A Life helps to outline how this happened and how modern media was forever changed by the visionary. It’s safe to say that Stan Lee, nee Stanley Lieber, is Marvel and Marvel is Stan Lee in the public’s mind. And he took a publishing company with him, ushering in the world of comics we know today. In the old wild west times of comic book publishing, one man rose to the top, becoming the face of an entire industry.
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