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True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee

True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee

Riesman, Josephine

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ISBN10: 0593135733
ISBN13: 9780593135730
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: Mar 1 2022
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Awards: Hugo Award
The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture--at a steep personal cost

HUGO AWARD FINALIST - EISNER AWARD NOMINEE - True Believer is in every imaginable way the biography that Stan Lee deserves--ambitious, audacious, daring, and unflinchingly clear-eyed about the man's significance, his shortcomings, his transgressions, his accomplishments, and his astonishing legacy.--Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road

Stan Lee was one of the most famous and beloved entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, became known as the creator of more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than nearly anyone: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the Incredible Hulk . . . the list goes on. His carnival-barker marketing prowess helped save the comic-book industry and superhero fiction. His cameos in Marvel movies have charmed billions. When he died in 2018, grief poured in from around the world, further cementing his legacy.

But what if Stan Lee wasn't who he said he was? To craft the definitive biography of Lee, Josephine Riesman conducted more than 150 interviews and investigated thousands of pages of private documents, turning up never-before-published revelations about Lee's life and work. True Believer tackles tough questions: Did Lee actually create the characters he gained fame for creating? Was he complicit in millions of dollars' worth of fraud in his post-Marvel life? Which members of the cavalcade of grifters who surrounded him were most responsible for the misery of his final days?

And, above all, what drove this man to achieve so much yet always boast of more?

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