A photo of Stan Lee in the Marvel offices in 1968. Stan used this as a photo for autographs back in the day.
A letter written by Stan Lee to super-fan Dr. Jerry Bails at the very beginning of 1963, discussing, among other things, the artwork on a recent Thor story, the impending debut of Dr. Strange, and the reasons for introducing The Wasp in the Ant-Man feature.
One last photo for today. Here’s Stan Lee at the speaker’s podium at an early comic book convention circa 1967 or so.
I’ve got scans of a pretty good number of the pages to X-MEN #1—the original artwork to that book exists in its entirety. So here’s Page 4. The faint notes on the bottom, written by Stan Lee, say:
HOLD IT! THAT’S IT! LEARN TO HOVER!
VIBRATES LIKE HUMMING BIRD
GOOD! YOU’RE LEARNING TO MASTER IT!
While in later months and years, Jack Kirby and the other Marvel artists would write border notes describing the action on the pages for Stan to dialogue from, these were jotted down by Stan himself. Pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Paul Reinman.
