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Stan Lee Stories
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Here is my story of Stan.

I met Stan Lee several times.  But the most memorable story I have was at San Diego ComicCon.  This was around 2005 or 2006.  Stan appeared at the show doing many panels, speaking to thousands of people all day. In the show he was being followed by crowds & crowds of fans & spectators. But around 5:00 I went to my room at the hotel next to the convention.  On the way to my room I see Stan Lee at the valet desk waiting for the guy to come bring him his car. What amazed me was that hundreds & hundreds of people walking right by him.  No one noticed him! No one stopped!

So here is a guy who, in the convention, is adorned by all and treated like a "god", but outside, he's just an old frail man not worthy of a second look. Kind of sad really.

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I met Stan Lee at Hardees once in Coulpepper, Virginia  and he had to borrow $9.00 from me so he could get a burger and fries. Since 9$ was all I had he could only get water and not a Pepsi. He got very angry and stormed out. He peeled out in his car out of the parking lot and hit a city bus that was full of elderly people going to play bingo at the local indian casino. I ran out to see if he and the bus full or older people were ok. Everybody was so we smoked a fatty and chilled. 

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55 minutes ago, NoMan said:

I met Stan Lee at Hardees once in Coulpepper, Virginia  and he had to borrow $9.00 from me so he could get a burger and fries. Since 9$ was all I had he could only get water and not a Pepsi. He got very angry and stormed out. He peeled out in his car out of the parking lot and hit a city bus that was full of elderly people going to play bingo at the local indian casino. I ran out to see if he and the bus full or older people were ok. Everybody was so we smoked a fatty and chilled. 

 

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Tell your teacher this is a very odd assignment and you are concerned about their well being. 

Then ask them to could give an example, like have them come up with stories about Ella Fitzgerald that are not on google-

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5 hours ago, aszumilo said:

Well, to be fair, Stan never died before.  1st times for everything.

It's not the subject of Stan Lee that serves no purpose; it's the premise of the "assignment". No teacher asks or demands that you tell stories of a person that you don't know, in which the information cannot be publicly available...

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45 minutes ago, TwoPiece said:

It's not the subject of Stan Lee that serves no purpose; it's the premise of the "assignment". No teacher asks or demands that you tell stories of a person that you don't know, in which the information cannot be publicly available...

If you read the original post, you'll see that the assignment asked for material on Stan Lee that wasn't readily available via a simple Google search.  It said nothing about the information not being 'publicly available', and so could be accessed from any of the many publicly available books that Stan authored, or any of the many books written about Marvel comics.  Or information that the smart hobbyists here on the Boards may know and be willing to share from any of these publicly available sources, and not just personal anecdotes.

 

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5 minutes ago, namisgr said:

If you read the original post, you'll see that the assignment asked for material on Stan Lee that wasn't readily available via a simple Google search.  It said nothing about the information not being 'publicly available', and so could be accessed from any of the many publicly available books that Stan authored, or any of the many books written about Marvel comics.  Or information that the smart hobbyists here on the Boards may know and be willing to share from any of these publicly available sources, and not just personal anecdotes.

It's dumb no matter how you spin it.

Edit: I love how you insinuate that I didn't read the OP, and attempt to use it as an attack, instead of being a polite and proper human being. It's not high school anymore, dude. At least not for me.

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I can understand the intent of the assignment, which might have been to have students discover or make use of lesser known avenues for finding information about a public figure or topic, and used Stan Lee as a focal point. Googling "Stan Lee facts" is easy enough, but maybe the teacher was trying to prod his/her students to think of other avenues for investigation/discovery. 

In that vein, I think the OP tried an interesting approach to the assignment by engaging online experts (us) on the topic to gain less readily available information.

I havent been a teacher in almost 20 years, but I could see having to teach students about information gathering in the internet age being both a key skill to pass to your students, and one that is difficult to overcome because googling "Stan Lee Facts" and just taking what the internet gives you is a very seductively easy path.. 

 

Here's a story that's more Marvel than just Stan Lee, but Stan's a player in it. 
 

Martin Goodman (Publisher for Timely/Marvel) at times played golf with the head of DC Comics, Jack Liebowitz. Well Jack was boasting about how successful his latest comic was and all it took was bringing together existing superheroes into a team (The Justice League of America). Martin was looking for a way to revitalize Marvel and after the round of golf he called his EiC Stan Lee and directed him to do something similar with the Marvel heroes. Stan wasn't thrilled with the idea of using retread superheores, so at the urging of his wife to make his own spin on things, he and the team at Marvel put together a series of solo superhero titles and characters, that he would then pull together to create the Avengers. 

So there we go. The biggest movie franchise, billions of dollars, and one of the most successful IPs ever, all from a boastful game of golf mixed with Stan's desire to put his (and his artists) own stamp on things. 

(story from Sean Howe’s excellent book Marvel Comics: The Untold Story)

granted you could probably google Avengers and golf and get someones write up of the same thing....

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5 hours ago, Jerkfro said:

How about instead of dickishly calling into question the motives of the OP, you either answer his question or just shut your trap?  What is wrong with you? Seriously

I'm wondering the same. Why so rude and combative? 

You realize that the OP is probably just a young kid, right???

Coming here asking for help and then he crudely responds. 

If you don't have anything nice to say "TwoPiece" then find something else to do with your time. Your energy sucks. 

 

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28 minutes ago, newshane said:

I'm wondering the same. Why so rude and combative? 

You realize that the OP is probably just a young kid, right???

Coming here asking for help and then he crudely responds. 

If you don't have anything nice to say "TwoPiece" then find something else to do with your time. Your energy sucks. 

You can't tell me what to do, you're not my dad.

I will manage my time as I see fit.

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1 minute ago, TwoPiece said:

You can't tell me what to do, you're not my dad.

I will manage my time as I see fit.

Congratulations on being human cancer. People like you are what's wrong with the world. 

*blocked* 

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