![]() ![]() Because as much as Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon's 'Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book' peeled back some of the layers of Lee's story - in the end, we needed the complete tale to see the whole story. Which is a good thing actually - because when taken as a whole - Stan Lee's story pretty much TELLS us the truth anyway. Don't get me wrong - it calls out Stan on many of his life story 'embellishments', it just makes no hard fast pronouncements that Jack created all of this or Ditko created all of that. ![]() And as such, there's no definitive determination on who wrote what - it just goes into detail about the Marvel method and who SAID what and when. not the candy coated, BSful, face front of one of Stan's ghost written biographies - but what we really know. ![]() See, the purpose of this book, was to try and tell the real story. And the sad last years of his life are something they REALLY don't want to read about. Not that True Believer isn't fair to Stan - it gives him the benefit of the doubt on many occasions, but for those in their 50's who still have a white knuckle grip on their 13 year old memories, that still won't be enough. So for those people, they should probably go to the next thread, or pick up a different book then. For the hardcore Stan Lee fan, anything that questions his legacy as the Comic Book Svengali, is met with a complete dismissal. ![]()
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