Ninety-six years ago today – on December 28th, 1922 – Stanley Martin Lieber was born in New York City. As a young adult, he adopted a nom de plume in order to write for comic books. Comics were widely considered…
Tag: Stan Lee
Compare/Contrast: Stan Lee Interviewed In Oui And Playboy, 1977 & 2014
For the last few weeks, the world of comics has been buzzing about Playboy’s new interview with Stan Lee. It’s not that seeing Stan Lee’s name in the news is an earth-shattering event (barely a week goes by when he’s…
From The Archives: Rolling Stone UK on Marvel Comics, 1969.
Rolling Stone’s 1971 cover story on Marvel Comics (discussed here) is one of the best-known and most-referenced documents of the comic book industry in that era. It’s a glimpse inside Marvel at a seminal moment, from an era when comics…
From The Archives: Rolling Stone on Marvel Comics, 1971.
Rolling Stone No. 91, September 16, 1971. This is something I’d been wanting to track down for ages, as an interesting historical document, a missing piece of my pop culture education, and just something fun to read. When it was…