Summary of Danny Fingeroth's A Marvelous Life

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel, was famous for his high-energy smart aleck attitude. He liked to have fun with his staff, but he was also trying to catch a slightly older audience. He was successful in both regards.
#2 Lee was producing a humor magazine called You Don’t Say, which consisted of photos of celebrities of the day, including politicians. The first two issues sold well. The third issue’s cover featured a photo of then-president John F. Kennedy, and Lee wrote, Allow me to introduce myself.
#3 Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel, was also a witness to the Beatles phenomenon. The Beatles were a popular rock band that inspired a level of hysteria among their female fans that was unprecedented.
#4 Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel Comics, was a pivotal figure in the 1960s. He was helping shape the culture, one superhero adventure at a time, one letter column response at a time, one hyperbolic cover blurb at a time.

Sujets

• Editors
• Autobiography
• Journalist
• Publishing
• Biography
• Publishers
• Journalists

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 16 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822512788
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Danny Fingeroth's A Marvelous Life
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel, was famous for his high-energy smart aleck attitude. He liked to have fun with his staff, but he was also trying to catch a slightly older audience. He was successful in both regards.

#2

Lee was producing a humor magazine called You Don’t Say, which consisted of photos of celebrities of the day, including politicians. The first two issues sold well. The third issue’s cover featured a photo of then-president John F. Kennedy, and Lee wrote, Allow me to introduce myself.

#3

Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel, was also a witness to the Beatles phenomenon. The Beatles were a popular rock band that inspired a level of hysteria among their female fans that was unprecedented.

#4

Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel Comics, was a pivotal figure in the 1960s. He was helping shape the culture, one superhero adventure at a time, one letter column response at a time, one hyperbolic cover blurb at a time.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

When Lee was born, his family should not have been able to afford to live at 777 West End Avenue. The neighborhood was ideal for Jack Lieber’s work in the garment center, but he didn’t make much money. The family soon moved to more affordable regions of upper Manhattan.

#2

Lee’s family was poor, and he often had to help his brother, Larry, with expenses. He loved playing handball, hockey, and bicycle polo in the streets with his friends.

#3

Lee was an average student who was not particularly interested in anything he was studying. He was a fan of reading, radio, and popular culture. He loved the movies.

#4

Lee’s interest in acting and girls led him to regularly show up at a Washington Heights synagogue around the same time as his bar mitzvah. He developed an interest in acting, and he wanted to be an actor.

#5

When he was in high school, Lee won a small, seventh-place prize and a couple of honorable mentions in a regular Biggest News of the Week contest run in the New York Herald Tribune. He was not ashamed of this, but years later, he would always say that he had won first prize in the contest three weeks in a row.

#6

Lee was extremely eager to get out into the world, but he still found time to participate in extracurricular life at Clinton. He sold subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune to fellow students, and delivered sandwiches for Manhattan’s Jack May’s Pharmacy. He loved acting, but the pay was so low that he had to quit.

#7

When World War II began in September 1939, America was not involved in the conflict. But it seemed like just a matter of time before the country would be dragged into the war. In the world of popular culture, 1939 was famous for the classic movies released that year, including The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, and Stagecoach.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Stanley Martin Lieber was hired by Joe Simon in December 1940 to be his assistant and gopher. He went for coffee and sandwiches, cleaned up pages, did proofreading, and whatever was needed to make the comics office run smoothly. He was assigned to write the text feature in Captain America Comics #3.

#2

Comic books were becoming more and more popular in 1940, but not all of it was welcome. The anti-comics movement began that year, and it would complicate Stan Lee’s life time and again.

#3

In late 1941, Lee became the editor of the newly created line of comics. With material still being provided by Funnies Inc. , much of his job was administrative. However, he thrived under the pressure.

#4

Lee was able to juggle so many titles over the years because he preferred to work with people he trusted and who he could just let loose. He didn’t hesitate to edit or tweak, but he generally preferred to work with people he trusted.

#5

World War II brought the United States into the war, and Lee enlisted, entering the army on November 9, 1942. He was assigned to the electrical wiring corps, and was excited to be doing something important.

#6

While in the army, Lee continued doing freelance writing for Timely, and helped devise methods for army payroll staffs to be more efficient. He also wrote a humorous marching song for the payroll workers.

#7

Lee returned from the army in 1945, and was immediately assigned to work with artist Ken Bald at Timely, where he began writing humorous stories. He met and became close friends with artist Ken Bald, who would go on to significant careers in comic strips and advertising.

#8

Lee was ready to settle down, and in December 1946, he went to a holiday party hosted by his cousin Morton Feldman at Feldman’s hat company. He met a gorgeous redhead named Betty, and they started dating. She soon agreed to marry him. However, she was already married.

#9

Larry’s relationship with his brother was always complicated, and it became even more so after his brother married Joan. While praising Stan as being, in general, a good boss when they worked together on comics projects, Larry carried the memory of numerous psychological and emotional hurts inflicted on him by the Goodmans over the years.

#10

Lee’s brother, Stan, taught him to write comics, and when Lee was writing and drawing The Hulk syndicated strip, his brother read some of it and complimented him.

#11

Stan was a show-off, and he enjoyed dictating stories to his three secretaries at once. He was also editorial director of the quarterly Film Album magazine in 1948. That year, he also crossed over into Goodman’s magazine line, editing Film Album magazine.

#12