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“Fabled and Notorious THROUGHOUT THE INDUSTRY…” EXHUMING 2015’s DISGRACEFUL & Offensive ‘Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible!’

When it premiered in 2015, “Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir” received credit from the press for being in the graphic novel format, as if this were some innovative approach in biographical storytelling. It was just another instance of the media giving Stan Lee credit for something that numerous creators before him had already done […]

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“…and pulled down fistfulls of the national zeitgeist.” Reviewing the gruesome ‘Stan Lee: the Man Behind Marvel’

Start a pot of tea because this is going to be a lengthy one, covering the 2017 pre-death Stan biography “Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel” by one Bob Batchelor. Apparently, it comes in multiple editions, (there’s a young readers adaption of the same book, not pictured) with what I presume is the latest update […]

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