One day, Stan Lee had a whim to create an insect super comic hero. Mosquito man? Ladybug man? He didn't think clearly. In short, he is a weak young man, neurotic, a little obsessive-compulsive, always reflecting. After being bitten by an alien insect, he had super powers. He is not invulnerable, but he also shoulders morality. Goodman, the boss and brother-in-law of Stan Lee and the founder of American "Miracle" comic company, hated the idea. A flawed Woody Allen superhero? But considering the face of his relatives, he managed to make room for the least important position in the company's comic periodical. That's 1962. The American comic industry just changed diapers. The big baby who hobbles forward only likes the same toy: Superman who is suspiciously perfect.
As you can guess, the hero of this insect cartoon is Spider-Man. Even though he has never been made into a movie, he occupies a dazzling position in the history of comics: "The coexistence of amazing imagination and humanistic spirit opens the way to explore the inner world of superheroes." This is Stan Lee's most famous work. Many years later, when Miracle comics were listed on the new york Stock Exchange, the cover of the company profile showed him standing in front of the stock exchange with a Spider-Man doll in his hand. Spider-Man and Stan Lee are both recorded in the history books, and the latter is even known as "Elvis Presley in comics". Talking about the origin of this name, the comic legend said: "It was actually a blind start, because I didn't want to associate my real name-Stanley Martin Leibo with those silly comics, but wanted to leave it to a truly great work, a novel that condensed all my life experiences."
Not a genius of painting, but a young man of literature and art.
Stan Lee, 17 years old, took on the burden of supporting his family after graduating from high school. He delivered takeout food, worked as a clerk in a clothing factory, went to Broadway, and worked as a newspaper deliveryman for the Tribune Edition of the New York Herald ... His favorite job is to write "early obituaries" for the Associated Press-the kind of eulogy written in advance for celebrities who are not dead. If my cousin's husband hadn't happened to set up a "miracle" comic company, he wouldn't want to enter the comic industry at all. In the second year, he became editor-in-chief. That was 194 1 year. He was 20 years old. Superman was just born a year ago. The so-called comic book was just the first time that someone folded the comic supplement of a newspaper into a book seven years ago. There is no shortage of talented painters in the comic industry, but there is a lack of brainwave creativity. Stan Lee responded to the scene. Although he can't draw a line, his brain ticks like a clock that has just been oiled. He initiated a new process of cartoon creation, which later became the standard "miracle mode" in the industry: using his brain a little, he only gave a general story outline without giving a detailed plot, allowing cartoonists to play freely, then drawing a "balloon dialog box" on this basis, filling in the dialogue, and finally binding and coloring. This is a joint creation of cartoonists and story writers. In an interview, Stan Jae-Il Lee described the limit of cartoonists' free play as "the more extreme the better", just like a frightened woman screaming, not with her mouth closed, but with her mouth wide open, making a magic sound of "Ah-".
Spider-Man, Hulk and Iron Man are all "silly cartoons" of Stan Lee.
Stan Lee and His Hulk and Spider-Man
The "miracle mode" caused controversy. Whose work is this cartoon? Fortunately, Stan Li Sheng lives in a country that respects creativity, and the king of creativity always finds a place to live. Although Stan Lee didn't become a magician with words, he occupied the image world with words. At the peak of his creation, he could write a whole cartoon in one night, which lasted 10 years. All works have only one enemy-invincible superman. "Superman will never make me feel interesting because I never worry about him. A superhero who will never be crushed will never excite you. " 196 1 year, for the first time, he put his humanistic feelings on a superhero family to do experiments-fantastic four, a software with super powers, such as fantasy people, invisible women, thunderbolts and stone men, who suffered unknown radiation. He found some philosophical expressions in Fantasy Man: "Why is there hatred and bigotry? Why can't we tolerate diversity?"? Fantasy people come from aliens and look at our planet with fresh eyes. He is detached and objective. " "Thunderbolt Fire" is the early image of the comic book Miracle. It was originally a robot. Stan Lee turned him into a real person: "I want to enhance the sense of reality by giving him more authenticity. Who has a truly impeccable life? No matter how rich and handsome he is and how sexy his wife is, no one has not experienced difficult times. Just when I created this superhero family, Kennedy seemed to be living a perfect life, and then he was shot. " This family has two extreme manifestations: a fight is coming, bloody, and the fist really hits the real body; Their hearts are like the warmest bird's nest, showing self-pity, grandiose and humble humor.
After Spider-Man was regarded as a turning point of an era, Stan Lee devoted himself to studying the pedigree of superheroes with humble problems. He successively created the depressed beast "Hulk" wandering in civilized society, the mutant "X-Men" with peculiar abilities, the "Captain America" who reflected the mistakes of the melancholy era in the late World War II ... and even created the trend of multi-ethnic superheroes. The "miracle" comics in Stan Lee's era have two unprecedented black people. He dreamed of using cartoons to cover all ethnic groups and social divisions of labor, including the "Iron Man" who took off again this year. Unlike his predecessors, he has a fragile little heart and a tortured soul. When 1963 was created, it was only created to re-establish the dignity of capitalism. He advocates selfishness and self-esteem, and he has integrity and integrity. This is because he popularized the law, reduced bureaucracy and resisted fear. So "Iron Man" Tony Stark came out. He is a millionaire, inventor, playboy, weapons manufacturer, adventurer and a certified member of a complex military industrial group. In short, as Stan Lee said, "He is a guy who is called the envy of poor young people."
Stan Lee's seal here not only creates an imaginative image, but also has its own narrative style. Comics are not only a pastime, but also bear the expression of the times. However, after 10 years, this once-permeated atmosphere gradually declined, as Stan Lee said in an interview with 1998: "Comics have more muscles, more movements and more colors, but they are just immersed in drawing some shocking images instead of telling stories clearly. Comics have richer means of expression than before, but at the cost of lack of cohesion. He seems to be more uneasy about the "little silly comics" that he has been immersed in for most of his life: "I often feel like a person talking in the town square. I speak loudly, and my eyes only stare at my expressions and gestures. Is anyone listening? Does anyone care? I suspect that I chose the wrong audience. "He left Miracle Comics on 1998, started a website and opened a small independent comic studio. However, those images created in the golden age make the name "Stan Lee" controversial in the lawsuit-every group related to him wants to monopolize him and his superhero family. This year's Iron Man and the upcoming version of Hulk, which completely subverts Ang Lee, seem to be both a tribute to Stan Lee and a mockery: he announced his entry into politics at the beginning of the year, and then began to write really great works that he missed since he was a child.