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Stan Lee Meets #2
Stan Lee Meets Doctor Strange #1
Stan journeys to Greenwich Villiage to catch up with his old pal Doctor Strange- but things have certainly changed since the '60s! Next, the ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN team of Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley pays homage to the life and career of "The Man."
45 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 11, 2006
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Stan Lee
7,562 books2,344 followersStan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) was an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
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December 3, 2024
Just lots of fun - miss you Stan. The concept of SL meeting some of the characters he created really is a fascinating read. I get the feeling he had fun doing this; that he was able to get perspective on what he had accomplished and was now content with his legacy. I could be wrong, but this book gives off that vibe to me.
January 8, 2025
I am not entirely sure what was the purpose of this 2006 comic book. The first story, rendered in excellent art by Alan Davis, is just a rather sad grounding of Dr. Strange as a tax-indebted tourist attraction.
The second story feels like a jab at longtime fans who mostly hated what was going (and has been going) on at Marvel, their grievances voiced by the ridiculous Impossible Man, who is then gently admonished by Stan Lee that "change is good." I am not sure if Bendis realized it at the time, but the story does sum up all the wrong and downright idiotic choices Marvel had made by 2006.
Marvel comics, in the span of time since I became a reader sometime in the late '80s and right up to the mid-00s, has suffered immensely from three boneheaded choices:
1. The Phoenix Force and Jean Grey's revolving door of death, clones and various spinoffs.
2. Civil War, which proudly "put Marvel into the real world," thereby making classic superhero storytelling impossible and increasingly convoluted in stupid ways.
3. Wanda's Omnipotent Madness, from House of M to "no more mutants" to every other stupid writing direction forced upon mutantkind and the Avengers.
The things stemming from these choices constitute some of the worst writing (and by extension, film-and-TV-making) in Marvel Comics, further compounded by the fact that nothing can ever have actual impact in the MU, because "corporate needs."
So Bendis may have been trying to be sarcastic, but the story hits rather closer to an uncomfortable truth.
As for the reprinted Doctor Strange #3, it looks beautiful as it was illustrated by legendary Barry Windsor-Smith, but the actual story is a verbose nothing-burger.
The second story feels like a jab at longtime fans who mostly hated what was going (and has been going) on at Marvel, their grievances voiced by the ridiculous Impossible Man, who is then gently admonished by Stan Lee that "change is good." I am not sure if Bendis realized it at the time, but the story does sum up all the wrong and downright idiotic choices Marvel had made by 2006.
Marvel comics, in the span of time since I became a reader sometime in the late '80s and right up to the mid-00s, has suffered immensely from three boneheaded choices:
1. The Phoenix Force and Jean Grey's revolving door of death, clones and various spinoffs.
2. Civil War, which proudly "put Marvel into the real world," thereby making classic superhero storytelling impossible and increasingly convoluted in stupid ways.
3. Wanda's Omnipotent Madness, from House of M to "no more mutants" to every other stupid writing direction forced upon mutantkind and the Avengers.
The things stemming from these choices constitute some of the worst writing (and by extension, film-and-TV-making) in Marvel Comics, further compounded by the fact that nothing can ever have actual impact in the MU, because "corporate needs."
So Bendis may have been trying to be sarcastic, but the story hits rather closer to an uncomfortable truth.
As for the reprinted Doctor Strange #3, it looks beautiful as it was illustrated by legendary Barry Windsor-Smith, but the actual story is a verbose nothing-burger.
January 1, 2022
While I enjoyed the Spiderman installment of this more, I did still appreciate some of the humor found here in the Dr. Strange and Stan interactions. If you love Dr. Strange a lot, I'm sure it will be even more enjoyable!
December 17, 2024
A fun little comedic approach at the changes in the marvel universe over the past several decades. Very entertaining to any existing fans.
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