LEE

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Stanley from the Bronx
3. Chapter Two - Into the Panelverse
4. Chapter Three - With Great Power
5. Chapter Four - The Marvel Method
6. Chapter Five - Heroes in Therapy
7. Chapter Six - The Face of Marvel
8. Chapter Seven - Kirby, Credit, and Controversy
9. Chapter Eight - The Gods Among Us
10. Chapter Nine - From Panels to Power
11. Chapter Ten - The MCU Begins
12. Chapter Eleven - The Real Multiverse of Madness
13. Chapter Twelve - Excelsior Goes Global
14. Chapter Thirteen - The Watcher Retires
15. Chapter Fourteen - The Man Who Made Heroes

Excerpt

PROLOGUE HE WAS NOT a god. He didn’t descend from the heavens or rise from some ancient prophecy. He was a kid from New York. A Jewish boy with a typewriter, a big imagination, and a knack for dialogue. And yet… Somehow, that boy conjured Olympus from a cramped office in Midtown Manhattan. His name was Stan Lee. You’ve seen the name. On comics. On credits. On cameos. A cheerful voice, a wink at the camera, a word — Excelsior! — like a magic spell. He became the most famous storyteller in modern memory, and yet most people still don’t know who he really was. Not the myth. Not the mask. The man. This book isn’t about superheroes. Not really. It’s about why they worked. Why they mattered. Why...