Stan Lee

And there's a lot of segments with him, a lot of background of his story of past, present, and now.

And most of all, you get a lot of interviews from other comic book artists like Stan Lee, of course, Chris Claremont.

You know, so many people, you know, fans.

So you see him at conventions and people talk about good things about him, you know.

Ooh! The Midnight Mask.

Fuck, Stan Lee is, like, proud somewhere in heaven right now, looking back, going, ding! Like a little wink.

You think he made it to heaven? That's totally fair.

Who's

So I couldn't be here because I had another doctor's appointment.

It was Dr. Lee.

You call him Dr. Lee.

Anyway, I saw Dr. Lee and I'm on my way to work.

And Ben's like, yeah, the guy's here.

He's got the one.

He goes, hey there, true believer.

Well, he he's more he looks more like short round than he does.

And the creators of this are two gentlemen who are in their 90s.

There's Stu Reeds, who is the analog for a Stan Lee.

And then you have Jack Crumley, who is the analog for Jack Kirby.

And Jack Crumley has had a crappy run of things.

some kind of goose egg, some kind of a cushion for them because he certainly has not enjoyed the, uh, uh, the fruits of his labor.

And while Stu reads, of course, is the face of, and the voice of this comics empire is, and is credited and himself credits himself for creating all of these wonderful characters and being the soul, you know, the soul creative force driving all of, uh, all of these characters in these comics for so many years.

Um, so very much a Stan Lee type figure, obviously a little bit more over the top.

Um, but, uh, you know, he's got that same kind of air about him.

They have a little shtick, and then he is able to download the files and to see what happens.

You know, there's a little peek at a beauty contest, too, where you see Stan Lee.

So there's his cameo.

Yes.

He writes From the Yard to the Art House, which will be linked at the top of the post.

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And with that, I think we'll sign off with a Stan Lee Excelsior.

Excelsior!

And I basically got off the phone and I just had this weird pause moment in my life where I was like, why did I just do that? What's the alternative? I didn't really have one, right? And so I ended up going off and building actually a nonprofit, but it was focused on mentoring.

And the whole notion was connecting people with their dream mentors, people that had done cool stuff like Stan Lee, entrepreneurs like Jack Welsh at the time, Stephen Covey, a lot of these people who are just building things.

And you'd look at the end product and you're like, oh, it's freaking amazing.

I could never do something like that.

But then if you found their backstory, you know, like a guy like Stan Lee, it's like, if you start talking to him, he goes, yeah, I was just walking around New York one day.

And, you know, this guy bumps into me and he's like, yeah, you know, Marvel.

It's like, you want to make copies for us or something? Like, can you do that? And he just stumbles into, you know, creating some of the biggest characters in the history of cinema and comic books.

Easy enough.

Well, see at the last Comic-Con that Stan Leedon, before he died, he made half a million in a day.

Oh, man.

That's wild, man, innit?

And when they asked for my source, I didn't respond because I was just like, you know, enough said.

As Stan Lee would say, statement stands for itself.

And then I look in the group chat yesterday morning and I see messages saying that I'm a prophet.

I'm like, but and then I read that I scrolled out.