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Stan Lee

Stan Lee with racks of Marvel comics in New York, June 15, 1978. (Photo/JTA-Santi Visalli-Getty Images)
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The real story buried in Disney’s new Stan Lee documentary

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar June 29, 2023June 29, 2023

This story was originally published in the Forward. When Stan Lee was just a kid, working as a message boy for New York’s “second-largest trouser manufacturer,” he had a sort […]

Stan Lee with racks of Marvel comics in New York, June 15, 1978. (Photo/JTA-Santi Visalli-Getty Images)
Posted inBooks, Culture, Comics, History

Stan Lee’s complex legacy gets even more complex in new biography

Julian Voloj by Julian Voloj and JTA February 22, 2021
In one of the final photos posted to his Facebook page before his death in 2018, Stan Lee poses on a motorcycle with Captain America's iconic shield.
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An afternoon out with Stan Lee and Captain America

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 5, 2019March 5, 2019
The cover of the first issue of Captain America, published in 1941, famously features Captain America giving Hitler what for.
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When comic books were the best way for teens to learn about the Holocaust

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten May 10, 2018May 10, 2018

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