Name	Paul Cornell
Caption	Paul Cornell
Birthdate	July 18, 1967
Occupation	Writer, novelist
Nationality	British
Period	1990 -
Genre	Science fiction
Website	http://paulcornell.blogspot.com/

Paul Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield.

As well as Doctor Who, other television dramas for which he has written include Robin Hood, Primeval, Casualty, Holby City and Coronation Street.

Cornell has also written for a number of British comics, as well as Marvel Comics and DC Comics in America, and has had two original novels published in addition to his Doctor Who fiction.

Professional biography

Already known in Doctor Who fan circles, Cornell's professional writing career began in 1990 when he was a winner in a young writers’ competition and his entry, Kingdom Come, was produced and screened on BBC Two. Soon after, he wrote , a novel for the Virgin New Adventures series of Doctor Who novels. Timewyrm: Revelation was a reworking of a serialised fan fiction piece Cornell had penned previously for the fanzine Queen Bat. Several other Doctor Who novels followed, including the award-winning Human Nature.

Cornell then began working for Granada Television, where he wrote for the popular children’s medical drama Children's Ward and created his own children’s series Wavelength for Yorkshire Television, which ran for two series. He made the crossover to working in adult television full-time in 1996, when he was one of the main contributors to Granada’s supernatural soap opera Springhill, which ran for two years on Sky One and later on Channel 4.

After a short stint on Coronation Street, he began working for other production companies, including contributing an episode in 1999 to Red Production Company’s anthology drama series Love in the 21st Century for Channel 4. His episode, entitled Masturbation, starred Ioan Gruffudd as Jack. He was due to be one of the writers on Red Production Company’s planned Queer as Folk spin-off series Misfits, but the series was never made, being abruptly cancelled by Channel 4.

In the 21st century he has written mainly for the BBC, contributing episodes to all three of their regular medical dramas: Casualty, Holby City and the daytime soap opera Doctors. He also contributed to the 1950s-set Sunday evening prime time drama series Born and Bred and was one of the writers of the 2005 series revival of Doctor Who, writing the episode "Father's Day". The episode was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2006 and came third in terms of votes for its category. Cornell later wrote a two-part story for Doctor Who's 2007 series, based on his 1995 Virgin New Adventures novel Human Nature. The title of the first episode was also "Human Nature", while the second was titled "The Family of Blood". In 2008, the two episodes were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

In February 2006, Cornell announced in a post on his weblog that he would be writing an episode for the BBC's forthcoming Robin Hood, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for the same Saturday evening family slot as Doctor Who. He later announced on his blog that he was also writing a second Robin Hood episode for later in the first series. His first episode, "Who Shot the Sheriff?", aired on BBC One on 21 October 2006. His second, "A Thing or Two About Loyalty", followed on 2 December 2006. He also wrote an episode for the second season of another Saturday evening family adventure programme, the ITV science-fiction series Primeval, transmitted in February 2008.

He also wrote the one-off pilot Pulse, which was shown on BBC Three in early June 2010.

Outside of television, he has been active in various other media, having written six Doctor Who novels for Virgin Publishing and BBC Books during the 1990s, three Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions and a fully-animated internet-broadcast Doctor Who adventure, Scream of the Shalka (starring Richard E. Grant as the Doctor) for bbc.co.uk in 2003. He has also written two mainstream science-fiction novels, Something More and British Summertime for Gollancz, and various novels, short stories and audio dramas based around a character he created for the New Adventures, Professor Bernice Summerfield, and whom he later licensed to Big Finish Productions.

He has also co-authored (often working with Keith Topping and Martin Day) several non-fiction books on television, including The Guinness Book of Classic British TV, X-treme Possibilities (a guide to The X-Files), and The Discontinuity Guide (a humorous guide to Doctor Who). (Topping and Day's Doctor Who novel The Devil Goblins from Neptune was also based on an original idea with Cornell.) He has also written comics, both for Doctor Who Magazine and the 2000 AD spin-off Judge Dredd Megazine.

He has written Wisdom, a 6-issue limited series for Marvel Comics' MAX imprint, featuring the character Peter Wisdom, with art by Trevor Hairsine and Manuel Garcia.

It was announced at the 2007 Wizard World Chicago comic book convention that Cornell would be following Chris Claremont on Marvel's New Excalibur. Plans were to subsequently changed with the cancellation of the New Excalibur title and Cornell's new project was announced as being titled . The third trade paperback, Vampire State, was nominated for the 2010 "Best Graphic Story" Hugo Award.

Cornell has also written Young Avengers Presents #4 (April 2008) and a Fantastic Four mini-series comic, , which started in July 2008, which featured the team encountering characters from the pages of literary classics. In 2008, he wrote a comic which featured on the Doctor Who website. He has also written the Young Avengers limited series that ties into Dark Reign and Black Widow: Deadly Origin a mini-series that ties into the character's appearance in Iron Man 2.

Cornell became the next Action Comics writer after War of the Supermen. Cornell signed with DC Comics exclusively in 2010 as part of writing for Action Comics. By January 2011, he has completed Batman & Robin #17-19 and works on a Knight & Squire six-issue miniseries.

Personal life

In an interview on the , Cornell stated that this entry in wikipedia described him as "..both a Christian and a pagan..", which he has chosen not to correct as it illustrates his sympathies for the pagan world. He then goes on to state that he is an Anglican but is very "..Low Church, almost a Calvinist.." and this is partly because he doesn't enjoy hymns.

Spiritual themes are not uncommon in his work (for example his novel Something More). Other frequent references in his work include owls.

Cornell is married to Caroline Symcox, who also has written Doctor Who-based audio plays for Big Finish Productions on her own and with Cornell.

In 2010, he appeared as a contestant on an episode of the BBC Four quiz show Only Connect.

Bibliography

He has written novels, non-fiction, audio plays and comic scripts.

Novels

Virgin New Adventures

Doctor Who: (ISBN 0-426-20360-7)

Doctor Who: Love and War (ISBN 0-426-20385-2)

Doctor Who: No Future (ISBN 0-426-20409-3)

Doctor Who: Human Nature (ISBN 0-426-20443-3)

Doctor Who: Happy Endings (ISBN 0-426-20470-0)

Virgin Missing Adventures

Doctor Who: Goth Opera (ISBN 0-426-20418-2)

Eighth Doctor Adventures

Doctor Who: The Shadows of Avalon (ISBN 0-563-55588-2)

Other Doctor Who novels

Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (ISBN 0-563-48619-8)

Bernice Summerfield: Oh No It Isn't! (ISBN 0-426-20507-3)

Bernice Summerfield: The Dead Men Diaries (editor)

Bernice Summerfield: A Life of Surprises (editor)

Bernice Summerfield: Life During Wartime (editor)

Other novels

Something More (ISBN 0-575-07203-2)

British Summertime (ISBN 0-575-07404-3)

The Uninvited (ISBN 0-7535-0220-8) (novelisation for Virgin of 1997 ITV science-fiction drama serial)

Non-fiction

Avengers Dossier: The Definitive Unauthorised Guide (ISBN 0-86369-754-2) with Martin Day and Keith Topping

Licence Denied: Rumblings from the Doctor Who Underground (ISBN 0-7535-0104-X) (editor)

X-treme Possibilities: A Paranoid Rummage Through The X-files (ISBN 0-7535-0228-3) with Day and Topping

The Discontinuity Guide (ISBN 0-426-20442-5) with Day and Topping

The Guinness Book of Classic British TV with Day and Topping

The New Trek Programme Guide (ISBN 0-86369-922-7) with Day and Topping

Audio plays

Doctor Who

The Shadow of the Scourge (2000)

Seasons of Fear with Caroline Symcox (2002)

Circular Time with Mike Maddox (2007)

Professor Bernice Summerfield

Oh No It Isn't! (audio adaptation by Jacqueline Rayner of novel) (1999)

Death and the Daleks (2004)

Comics

Doctor Who:

* "Stairway to Heaven" (with co-author John Freeman and pencils by Gerry Dolan and inks by Rex Ward, in Doctor Who Magazine #156, 1990)

* "Teenage Kicks" (illustrated text story, in Doctor Who Magazine #163, 1990)

* "The Chameleon Factor" (with pencils by Lee Sullivan and inks by Mark Farmer, in Doctor Who Magazine #174, 1991)

* "Emperor of the Daleks" (with co-author John Freeman and art by Lee Sullivan, in Doctor Who Magazine #197-202, 1993)

* "Time and Time Again" (with art by John Ridgway, in Doctor Who Magazine #207, 1993

* "Metamorphosis" (with art by Lee Sullivan, in Doctor Who Yearbook 1993)

* "Blood Invocation" (with art by John Ridgway, in Doctor Who Yearbook 1995)

Pan-African Judges (with Siku, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 #44-49, 1993–1994)

Deathwatch: "Faust & Falsehood" (with Adrian Salmon, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 3 #8-13, 1995–1996)

XTNCT (with D'Israeli, in Judge Dredd Megazine #209-214, 2003–2004, trade paperback, XTNCT: CM ND HV G F Y THNK YR HRD NGH!, 48 pages, hardcover, December 2006, ISBN 1-904265-69-3)

Wisdom (with Trevor Hairsine and Manuel Garcia, 6-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, 2006, tpb, 144 pages, August 2007, ISBN 0785121234)

Young Avengers Presents #4 (with Mark Brooks, Marvel Comics, April 2008, collected in Young Avengers Presents, 144 pages, October 2008, ISBN 0785129758)

#1-15 plus annual (with Leonard Kirk, Marvel Comics, May 2008-July 2009):

* Secret Invasion (collects Captain Britain and MI: 13 #1-4, 104 pages, Panini Comics, January 2009, ISBN 1846534070, Marvel Comics, March 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3344-5)

*Hell Comes To Birmingham (collects Captain Britain and MI: 13 #5-9, 120 pages, Panini Comics, June 2009, ISBN 1846534232, Marvel Comics, July 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3345-3)

*Vampire State (collects Captain Britain and MI: 13 #10-15 + annual #1, 184 pages, Marvel Comics, October 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3952-4)

Fantastic Four: (with Horacio Dominguez, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, July–October 2008)

Dark Reign: Young Avengers (with Mark Brooks, 5-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, May–September 2009)

Black Widow: Deadly Origin (with Tom Raney and John Paul Leon, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, forthcoming)

Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1-3 (with Leonard Kirk, Marvel Comics, September–October 2009, hardcover, December 2009, ISBN 0-7851-4230-4)

Dark X-Men (with Leonard Kirk, 5-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, January 2010-ongoing, premiere hardcover, June 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4526-5)

Action Comics #890- (with artist Pete Woods, DC Comics, June 2010-)

Knight and Squire #1-6 (with artist Jimmy Broxton, limited series, October 2010-)

Batman & Robin #17-19 (with Scott McDaniel, November 2010-January 2011)

Screenplays

Some of the notable series and episodes he has worked on include:

Doctor Who:

* "Father's Day" (2005)

* "Human Nature" (2007)

* "The Family of Blood" (2007)

Robin Hood

* "Who Shot the Sheriff?" (2006)

* "A Thing or Two About Loyalty" (2006)

Pulse (pilot, 2010)

Notes

References

Paul Cornell at Barney

External links

Paul Cornell's weblog

Interviews

Paul Cornell interviwed at CONvergence 2010 by The Omega Podcast (in mp3 format)

Podcast Interview with Paul Cornell (in mp3 format)

Interview with Paul Cornell on the Bullpen Bulletins Podcast

Interview with Paul Cornell at Millarworld

Interview with Paul Cornell at YMCA England

Author interview: Paul Cornell, SFX, June 10, 2008

Special Edition Podcast: Paul Cornell, iFanboy, July 3, 2008

X-POSITION: Paul Cornell, Comic Book Resources, September 23, 2008

Geek Syndicate Podcast Interview with Paul Cornell (in mp3 format)

Paul Cornell live at BICS 2008 on the Geek Syndicate Panel

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Caption	Stan Lee in 2007
Birth name	Stanley Martin Lieber
Birth place	New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Area	Writer, editor, publisher, producer, actor, reality show host
Write	y
Edit	y
Publish	y
Signature	Stan Lee sig.jpg|90px
Notable works	Spider-ManFantastic FourX-MenAvengersHulkIron ManThorDaredevilDoctor Strange
Awards	Jack Kirby Hall of Fame
Sortkey	Lee, Stan
Subcat	American
Yob	1922
Mob	12
Dob	28

Stan Lee (born December 28, 1922) is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

In collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, and many other fictional characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. In addition, he headed the first major successful challenge to the industry's censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, and forced it to reform its policies. Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.

Biography

Early life and career

Stan Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York City, New York on December 28, 1922, in the apartment of his Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents, Celia (née Solomon) and Jack Lieber, at the corner of West 98th Street and West End Avenue in Manhattan. in Washington Heights, Manhattan. When Lee was nearly 9, his only sibling, brother Larry Lieber, was born. He said in 2006 that as a child he was influenced by books and movies, particularly those with Errol Flynn playing heroic roles. By the time Lee was in his teens, the family was living in a one-bedroom apartment at 1720 University Avenue in The Bronx. Lee described it as "a third-floor apartment facing out back", with him and his brother sharing a bedroom and his parents using a foldout couch. where his family had moved next. A voracious reader who enjoyed writing as a teen, he has said that as a youth he worked such part-time jobs as writing obituaries for a news service and press releases for the National Tuberculosis Center; delivering sandwiches for the Jack May pharmacy to offices in Rockefeller Center; working as an office boy for a trouser manufacturer; ushering at the Rivoli Theater on Broadway; and selling subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune newspaper. He graduated high school early, at age 16½ in 1939, and joined the WPA Federal Theatre Project. .]] With the help of his uncle, Robbie Solomon, was Goodman's wife, was formally hired by Timely editor Joe Simon.

His duties were prosaic at first. "In those days [the artists] dipped the pen in ink, [so] I had to make sure the inkwells were filled", Lee recalled in 2009. "I went down and got them their lunch, I did proofreading, I erased the pencils from the finished pages for them". Marshaling his childhood ambition to be a writer, young Stanley Lieber made his comic-book debut with the text filler "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" in Captain America Comics #3 (May 1941), using the pseudonym "Stan Lee", which years later he would adopt as his legal name. Lee later explained in his autobiography and numerous other sources that he had intended to save his given name for more literary work. This initial story also introduced Captain America's trademark ricocheting shield-toss, which immediately became one of the character's signatures.

He graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a backup feature, "'Headline' Hunter, Foreign Correspondent", two issues later. Lee's first superhero co-creation was the Destroyer, in Mystic Comics #6 (August 1941). Other characters he created during this period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comics include Jack Frost, debuting in USA Comics #1 (August 1941), and Father Time, debuting in Captain America Comics #6 (August 1941).

When Simon and his creative partner Jack Kirby left late in 1941, following a dispute with Goodman, the 30-year-old publisher installed Lee, just under 19 years old, as interim editor. The youngster showed a knack for the business that led him to remain as the comic-book division's editor-in-chief, as well as art director for much of that time, until 1972, when he would succeed Goodman as publisher.

Lee entered the United States Army in early 1942 and served stateside in the Signal Corps, writing manuals, training films, and slogans, and occasionally cartooning. His military classification, he says, was "playwright"; he adds that only nine men in the U.S. Army were given that title. Vincent Fago, editor of Timely's "animation comics" section, which put out humor and funny animal comics, filled in until Lee returned from his World War II military service in 1945 and rented the top floor of a brownstone in the East 90s in Manhattan.

He married Joan Clayton Boocock on December 5, 1947, By this time, the couple had daughter Joan Celia "J.C." Lee, born in 1950; another child, Jan Lee, died three days after delivery in 1953. including the 1960s period when Lee and his artist collaborators would revolutionize comic books.

In the mid-1950s, by which time the company was now generally known as Atlas Comics, Lee wrote stories in a variety of genres including romance, Westerns, humor, science fiction, medieval adventure, horror and suspense. By the end of the decade, Lee had become dissatisfied with his career and considered quitting the field. #1 (November 1961). Cover art by Jack Kirby (penciller) and an unconfirmed inker.]]

Marvel revolution

In the late 1950s, DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz revived the superhero archetype and experienced a significant success with its updated version of the Flash, and later with super-team the Justice League of America. In response, publisher Martin Goodman assigned Lee to create a new superhero team. Lee's wife urged him to experiment with stories he preferred, since he was planning on changing careers and had nothing to lose.

The first superhero group Lee and artist Jack Kirby created was the Fantastic Four. The team's immediate popularity led Lee and Marvel's illustrators to produce a cavalcade of new titles. With Kirby primarily, Lee created the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor and the X-Men; with Bill Everett, Daredevil; and with Steve Ditko, Doctor Strange and Marvel's most successful character, Spider-Man.

Comics historian Peter Sanderson wrote that in the 1960s:

Stan Lee's Marvel revolution extended beyond the characters and storylines to the way in which comic books engaged the readership and built a sense of community between fans and creators. Lee introduced the practice of including a credit panel on the splash page of each story, naming not just the writer and penciller but also the inker and letterer. Regular news about Marvel staff members and upcoming storylines was presented on the Bullpen Bulletins page, which (like the letter columns that appeared in each title) was written in a friendly, chatty style. (inker).]] Throughout the 1960s, Lee scripted, art-directed, and edited most of Marvel's series, moderated the letters pages, wrote a monthly column called "Stan's Soapbox," and wrote endless promotional copy, often signing off with his trademark phrase "Excelsior!" (which is also the New York state motto). To maintain his taxing workload, yet still meet deadlines, he used a system that was used previously by various comic-book studios, but due to Lee's success with it, became known as the "Marvel Method" or "Marvel style" of comic-book creation. Typically, Lee would brainstorm a story with the artist and then prepare a brief synopsis rather than a full script. Based on the synopsis, the artist would fill the allotted number of pages by determining and drawing the panel-to-panel storytelling. After the artist turned in penciled pages, Lee would write the word balloons and captions, and then oversee the lettering and coloring. In effect, the artists were co-plotters, whose collaborative first drafts Lee built upon.

Because of this system, the exact division of creative credits on Lee's comics has been disputed, especially in cases of comics drawn by Kirby and Ditko. Similarly, Lee shares co-creator credit with Kirby on the two Fantastic Four films, while also sharing the same credit with Ditko with the Spider-Man feature film series.

In 1971, Lee indirectly reformed the Comics Code. The US Department of Health, Education and Welfare asked Lee to write a story about the dangers of drugs and Lee wrote a story in which Spider-Man's best friend becomes addicted to pills. The three-part story was slated to be published in Amazing Spider-Man #96-98, but the Comics Code Authority refused it because it depicted drug use; the story context was considered irrelevant. With his publisher's approval, Lee published the comics without the CCA seal. The comics sold well and Marvel won praise for its socially conscious efforts. The CCA subsequently loosened the Code to permit negative depictions of drugs, among other new freedoms.

Lee also supported using comic books to provide some measure of social commentary about the real world, often dealing with racism and bigotry. "Stan's Soapbox", besides promoting an upcoming comic book project, also addressed issues of discrimination, intolerance, or prejudice. In addition, Lee took to using sophisticated vocabulary for the stories' dialogue to encourage readers to learn new words. Lee has justified this by saying: "If a kid has to go to a dictionary, that's not the worst thing that could happen." and, from 1975 to 1980, a two-bedroom condominium on the 14th floor of 220 East 63rd Street in Manhattan. He moved to California in 1981 to develop Marvel's TV and movie properties. He has been an executive producer for, and has made cameo appearances in Marvel film adaptations and other movies. He and his wife bought a home in West Hollywood, California previously owned by comedian Jack Benny's radio announcer, Don Wilson. Lee was briefly president of the entire company, but soon stepped down to become publisher instead, finding that being president was too much about numbers and finance and not enough about the creative process he enjoyed. Stan Lee Media filed for bankruptcy in February 2001, and Paul fled to São Paulo, Brazil. Paul was extradited back to the U.S., and pleaded guilty to violating SEC Rule 10b-5 in connection with trading of his stock in Stan Lee Media. Lee was never implicated in the scheme.

Some of the Stan Lee Media projects included the animated Web series The 7th Portal where he voiced the character Izayus; The Drifter; and The Accuser. The 7th Portal characters were licensed to an interactive 3-D film attraction in four Paramount theme parks.

In the 2000s, Lee did his first work for DC Comics, launching the Just Imagine... series, in which Lee reimagined the DC superheroes Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and the Flash.

Lee created the risqué animated superhero series Stripperella for Spike TV. In 2004 he announced a superhero program that would feature Ringo Starr, the former Beatle, as the lead character. Additionally, in August of that year, Lee announced the launch of Stan Lee's Sunday Comics, hosted by Komikwerks.com, where monthly subscribers could read a new, updated comic and "Stan's Soapbox" every Sunday. The column has not been updated since February 15, 2005.

In 2005, Lee, Gill Champion and Arthur Lieberman formed POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment to develop film, television and video game properties. POW! president and CEO Champion said in 2005 that Lee was creating a new superhero, Foreverman, for a Paramount Pictures movie, in tandem with producer Robert Evans and Idiom Films, with Peter Briggs hired to collaborate with Lee on the screenplay.

In 2006, Marvel commemorated Lee's 65 years with the company by publishing a series of one-shot comics starring Lee himself meeting and interacting with many of his co-creations, including Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, the Thing, Silver Surfer and Doctor Doom. These comics also featured short pieces by such comics creators as Joss Whedon and Fred Hembeck, as well as reprints of classic Lee-written adventures.

In 2007, POW! started a series of direct-to-DVD animated films under the Stan Lee Presents banner. Each film focuses on a new superhero, created by Stan Lee for the series. The first two releases were Mosaic and The Condor. In June of that year, Walt Disney Studios entered into an exclusive multi-year first-look deal with POW! Entertainment.

in July 2010.]] On March 15, 2007, Stan Lee Media's new president, Jim Nesfield, filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment for $5 billion, claiming that the company is co-owner of the characters that Lee created for Marvel. On June 9, 2007, Stan Lee Media sued Lee; his newer company, POW! Entertainment; POW! subsidiary QED Entertainment; and other former Stan Lee Media staff at POW!

In 2008, Lee wrote humorous captions for the political fumetti book Stan Lee Presents Election Daze: What Are They Really Saying?. In April of that year, at the New York Comic Con, Viz Media announced that Lee and Hiroyuki Takei were collaborating on the manga Karakuridôji Ultimo, from parent company Shueisha. That same month, Brighton Partners and Rainmaker Animation announced a partnership POW! to produce a CGI film series, "Legion of 5". That same month, Virgin Comics announced Lee would create a line of superhero comics for that company. He is also working on a TV adaptation of the novel Hero. He wrote the foreword to the 2010 non-fiction e-book memoir Skyscraperman by skyscraper fire-safety advocate Dan Goodwin, who had climbed skyscrapers dressed as Spider-Man.

In 2009, he and the Japanese company Bones produced their first manga feature, "Heroman", serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan; the feature was adapted to anime in April 2010.

Lee is set to guest-star in season five of Eureka. He said he has a guest appearance in season seven of Entourage.

He is currently writing a "new live-action musical as well as a comic-book adaptation of Romeo and Juliet". Romeo and Juliet: The War in Mid-2011 is a potential film project and The Yin and Yang Battle of Tao may premiere in China. Battle of Tao is described as "more extravagant than the Cirque du Soleil spectacles".

Interests

Lee's favorite authors include Stephen King, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Harlan Ellison. He also likes movies starring Bruce Lee.

Legacy

Awards and honors

Lee has received several awards for his work, including being inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.

On November 17, 2008, Stan Lee was awarded the National Medal of Arts. The County of Los Angeles declared October 2, 2009 Stan Lee Day. The City of Long Beach declared October 2, 2009 Stan Lee Day.

Lee received the 2,428th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on January 4, 2011.

Stan Lee Foundation

The Stan Lee Foundation was founded in 2010 to focus on literacy, education and the arts. Its stated goals include supporting programs and ideas that improve access to literacy resources, as well as promoting diversity, national literacy, culture and the arts.

Action figure

At the 2007 Comic-Con International, Marvel Legends introduced a Stan Lee action figure. The body beneath the figure's removable cloth wardrobe is a re-used mold of a previously released Spider-Man action figure, with only minor changes.

Fictional portrayals

#10 (Jan. 1963). Art by Kirby & Dick Ayers.]] Stan Lee and his collaborator Jack Kirby appear as themselves in The Fantastic Four #10 (January 1963), the first of several appearances within the fictional Marvel Universe. The two are depicted as similar to their real-world counterparts, creating comic books based on the "real" adventures of the Fantastic Four.

Kirby later portrayed himself, Lee, production executive Sol Brodsky, and Lee's secretary Flo Steinberg as superheroes in What If #11, "What If the Marvel Bullpen Had Become the Fantastic Four?", in which Lee played the part of Mister Fantastic. Lee has also made numerous cameo appearances in many Marvel titles, appearing in audiences and crowds at many characters' ceremonies and parties, and hosting an old-soldiers reunion in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #100 (July 1972). Lee appeared, unnamed, as the priest at Luke Cage and Jessica Jones' wedding in New Avengers Annual #1. He pays his respects to Karen Page at her funeral in the Daredevil "Guardian Devil" story arc, and appears in The Amazing Spider-Man (June 1977).

In Marvel's July 1997 "Flashback" event, a top-hatted caricature of Lee as a ringmaster introduced stories which detailed events in Marvel characters' lives before they became superheroes, in special "-1" editions of many Marvel titles. The "ringmaster" depiction of Lee was originally from Generation X #17 (July 1996), where the character narrated a story set primarily in an abandoned circus. Though the story itself was written by Scott Lobdell, the narration by "Ringmaster Stan" was written by Lee himself, and the character was drawn in that issue by Chris Bachalo. Bachalo's depiction of "Ringmaster Stan" was later used in the heading of a short-lived revival of the "Stan's Soapbox" column, which evolved into a question & answer format.

In his given name of Stanley Lieber, Stan Lee appears briefly in Paul Malmont's 2006 novel The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril.

Lee and other comics creators are mentioned in Michael Chabon's 2000 novel about the comics industry The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

On one of the last pages of , Lee appears in a real photograph among other celebrities on a wall of the Bradley home.

In Stan Lee Meets Superheroes, Stan Lee comes in to contact with some of his favorite creations. The series was written by Lee himself.

The appearance of Dr. Dunstan in the manga series Karakuri Dôji Ultimo is based on Lee.

Film and television appearances

Marvel film properties

in Fantastic Four, 2005]]

In recent years, Stan Lee has cameoed in many films based on Marvel Comics. To date, Lee has cameoed in every Marvel film with the exception of Howard the Duck, The Punisher, Captain America, The Fantastic Four, Blade, Blade II, X2, The Punisher, , Elektra, Man-Thing, Ghost Rider, , and .

In the TV-movie The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989), Lee's first appearance in a Marvel movie or TV project is as a jury foreman in the trial of Dr. David Banner.

In X-Men (2000), Lee appears as a hotdog stand vendor on the beach when Senator Kelly emerges naked onshore after escaping from Magneto.

In Spider-Man (2002), he appeared during Spider-Man's first battle with the Green Goblin, pulling a little girl away from falling debris. In the DVD's deleted scenes, Lee has an expanded cameo in which he plays a street vendor who tries to sell Peter Parker a pair of sunglasses "just like the X-Men wear."

In Daredevil (2003), as a child, Matt Murdock stops Lee from crossing the street and getting hit by a bus.

In Hulk (2003), he appears walking alongside former TV-series Hulk Lou Ferrigno in an early scene, both as security guards at Bruce Banner's lab. It was his first speaking role in a film based on one of his characters.

In Spider-Man 2 (2004), Lee again pulls an innocent person away from danger during Spider-Man's first battle with Doctor Octopus. In a hidden scene shown in the bloopers section, Stan has another cameo, where he says "Look, Spider-man stole that child sneakers" but he messes up the last word.

In Fantastic Four (2005), Lee appears for the first time as a character from the comics, in a role credited as Willie Lumpkin, the mail carrier who greets the Fantastic Four as they enter the Baxter Building.

In (2006), Lee and Chris Claremont appear as two of Jean Grey's neighbors in the opening scenes set 20 years ago. Lee, credited as "Waterhose man," is watering the lawn when Jean telekinetically redirects the water from the hose into the air.

In Spider-Man 3 (2007), Lee appears in a credited role as "Man in Times Square". He stands next to Peter Parker, both of them reading a news bulletin, and commenting to Peter that, "You know, I guess one person can make a difference". He then says his catch phrase, "'Nuff said."

In (2007), Lee appears as himself at Reed Richards' and Susan Storm's first wedding, being turned away by a security guard for not being on the guest list. In Fantastic Four Annual #3 (1965), in which the couple married, Lee and Jack Kirby are similarly turned away.

In Iron Man (2008), Lee (credited as "Himself") appears at a gala cavorting with three blond women, where Tony Stark mistakes him for Hugh Hefner. In the theatrical release of the film, Stark simply greets Lee as "Hef" and moves on without seeing Lee's face; another version of the scene was filmed where Stark realizes his mistake, but Lee graciously responds, "That's okay, I get this all the time."

In The Incredible Hulk (2008), Lee appears as a hapless citizen who accidentally ingests a soft drink mixed with Bruce Banner's blood, leading to the discovery of Dr. Banner's location in a bottling plant in Brazil.

In Iron Man 2 (2010), during the Stark Expo, Lee, wearing suspenders and a red shirt and black and purple tie, is greeted by Tony Stark as "Larry King".

In Thor (2011), Lee appears among many people at the site where Thor's hammer Mjolnir lands on earth. He tears the back off his pickup truck in an attempt to pull Mjolnir out of the ground with a chain and causes everyone to laugh by asking, "Did it work?".

Lee will have a cameo in (2011), saying in April 2011, “Marvel Studios has upgraded my cameo for the Captain America movie! They’ve given me one more word of dialogue than originally planned!” In The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Lee is scheduled to have a cameo in an action scene where he plays a librarian oblivious to the fight between Spiderman and The Lizard happening behind him.

In The Avengers (2012), Lee will have a cameo.

Warner/DC properties

In the original broadcast airing of the episode "Apokolips... Now! Part 2", an animated Stan Lee was visible mourning the death of Daniel "Terrible" Turpin, a character based on Marvel Comics Universe co-creator and Marvel main artist Jack Kirby. The scene also included such Marvel characters as the Ben Grimm, Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Nick Fury, Johnny Storm, Steve Rogers,Tony Stark, and Peter Parker, Jack Kirby DC characters as Big Barda, Scott Free, Orion, Kamandi, comics artists Bruce Timm, Alex Ross and his father Norman Ross, and TV producers and writers Glen Murakami, Dan Riba, Paul Dini, Alan Burnett and Mark Evanier. This shot appeared in the completed episode and was aired on February 7, 1998 in WB Kids, but was later modified to remove the likeness of Marvel characters in the Superman: The Animated Volume 3 DVD box set.

Advertising

Dr.Pepper television advertisements with Thor tie-in.

Other film, TV, and video

He is the host of the 2010 History Channel documentary series Stan Lee's Superhumans.

Lee makes a cameo appearance as the "Three Stooges Wedding Guest" in the 2004 Disney film .

Lee hosted and judged contestants in the SyFy series Who Wants to Be a Superhero?

Lee appears with director Kevin Smith and 2000s Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada in the DVD program "Marvel Then & Now: An Evening with Stan Lee and Joe Quesada, hosted by Kevin Smith".

One of Lee's earliest contributions to animation based on Marvel properties was narrating the 1980s Incredible Hulk animated series, always beginning his narration with a self-introduction and ending with "This is Stan Lee saying, Excelsior!" Lee had previously narrated the "Seven Little Superheroes" episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, which the Hulk series was paired with for broadcast.

Lee did the narration for the original 1989 X-Men animated series pilot titled .

Lee was interviewed on the History Channel Show Superhuman by Daniel Browning Smith, who held several Guinness Records for extreme flexibility due to having Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a genetic condition affecting collagen formation. Smith had created his own comic book to display his own struggles as an outcast for his flexibility, and legitimately surprised Lee with a quick demonstration of his talent.

In the animated series Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, Lee plays himself in a live-action scene of the "Comic Capers" episode.

Lee was an executive producer of the 1990s animated TV series Spider-Man. He appeared as himself in animated form in the series finale episode titled "". Spider-Man is transported by Madame Web into the "real" world where he is a fictional character. He meets Lee and the two swing around until Spider-Man drops him off on top of a building; Madame Web appears and brings Spider-Man back to his homeworld. Realizing he is stuck on a roof, Lee muses, hoping the Fantastic Four will show up and lend a hand.

He also voices the character "Frank Elson" in an episode of series broadcast by MTV in 2003, and titled "Mind Games" (Parts 1 & 2, originally aired on August 15 & 22, 2003).

He voiced a loading dock worker named Stan on The Spectacular Spider-Man in the episode "Blueprints".

Lee has an extensive cameo in the Kevin Smith film Mallrats. He once again plays himself, this time visiting "the" mall to sign books at a comic store. Later, he takes on the role of a sage-like character, giving Jason Lee's character, Brodie Bruce (a longtime fan of Lee's), advice on his love life. He also recorded interviews with Smith for the non-fiction video Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters, and Marvels (2002).

Lee appeared as himself in an extended self-parodying sketch on the episode "Tapping a Hero" of Robot Chicken.

Lee appears as himself in writer-director Larry Cohen's The Ambulance (1990), in which Eric Roberts plays an aspiring comics artist.

In The Simpsons episode "I Am Furious Yellow" (April 28, 2002), Lee voices the animated Stan Lee, who is a prolonged visitor to Comic Book Guy's store. He asks if Comic Book Guy is the stalker of Lynda Carter - the star of the 1970s show Wonder Woman - and shows signs of dementia, such as breaking a customer's toy Batmobile by trying to cram a Thing action figure into it (claiming that he "made it better"), hiding DC comics behind Marvel comics, and believing that he is the Hulk (and fails trying to become the Hulk, while Comic Book Guy comments he couldn't even change into Bill Bixby). Lee also appeared on the commentary track along with other Simpsons writers and directors on the episode for The Simpsons Season 13 boxset released in 2010. In a later Simpsons episode, Worst Episode Ever, Lee's picture is seen next to several others on the wall behind the register, under the heading "Banned for life".

Lee also appears as himself in the Mark Hamill-directed (2004), a direct-to-video mockumentary primarily filmed at the 2002 San Diego Comic-Con.

Lee also made an appearance on December 21, 2006, on the NBC game show Identity.

Lee appeared as himself in episode 3.16 of The Big Bang Theory. Lee appears in the manga and anime series of Heroman as a regular at a diner. He is voiced by Atsushi Ii in the Japanese anime. Lee voices the Mayor of Superhero City in the Super Hero Squad Show. He plays a bus driver in the 16th episode of the first season of Heroes. Lee appeared as himself in the 5th episode of the seventh season of the HBO series Entourage. Lee is scheduled to appear on X Japan's music video "Born to be Free". Lee appears in the Nikita episode "The Guardian" as a witness to a bank robbery named Hank Excelsior. Original airdate Oct 7, 2010

Video games

Lee narrates the 2000 video game Spider-Man, the 2001 sequel and 2010's .

Lee plays a senator named after himself in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2.

Bibliography

Lee's comics work includes:

DC

Just Imagine Stan Lee creating:

*Aquaman (with Scott McDaniel) (2002)

*Batman (with Joe Kubert) (2001)

*Catwoman (with Chris Bachalo) (2002)

*Crisis (with John Cassaday) (2002)

*Flash (with Kevin Maguire) (2002)

*Green Lantern (with Dave Gibbons) (2001)

*JLA (with Jerry Ordway) (2002)

*Robin (with John Byrne) (2001)

*Sandman (with Walt Simonson) (2002)

*Secret Files and Origins (2002)

*Shazam! (with Gary Frank) (2001)

*Superman (with John Buscema) (2001)

*Wonder Woman (with Jim Lee) (2001)

Marvel

Amazing Spider-Man #1-100, 105-110, 116-118, 200 (1963–80)

Avengers #1-35 (1963–66)

Captain America #100-141 (1968–71)

Daredevil, vol. 1, #1-9, 11-50, 53 (1964–69)

Daredevil, vol. 2, #20 (backup story) (2001)

Fantastic Four #1-114, 120-125 (1961–72); #296 (1986)

Journey into Mystery (Thor) #97-125 (1963-66)

Ravage 2099 #1-7 (1992-93)

Savage She-Hulk #1 (1980)

Sgt. Fury #1-28 (1963–66)

Silver Surfer #1–18 (1968–70)

Solarman #1–2 (1989–90)

Strange Tales (diverse stories): #9, 11, 74, 89, 90-100 (1951–62); (Human Torch): #101-109, 112-133; (Human Torch and Dr. Strange): #110-111, 115-134 (1962–65); (Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Dr. Strange features): #135-147, 150-157 (1965–67)

Tales to Astonish (diverse stories): #1, 6, 12–13, 15–17, 24–33 (1956–62); (Ant-Man, Incredible Hulk, and Sub-Mariner): #35–101 (1962–68)

Tales of Suspense (diverse stories): #7, 9, 16, 22, 27, 29–30 (1959–62); (Iron Man and Captain America): #39-99 (1963–68)

Thor #126–192, 200 (1966–72), 385 (1987)

X-Men #1–19 (1963–66)

What If (Fantastic Four) #200 (2011)

See also

Characters created by Stan Lee

List of American comics creators

List of American Jews

List of Eisner Award winners

List of Harvey Award winners

List of Jewish American authors

List of Marvel Comics people

List of science fiction authors

List of pseudonyms

References

Further reading

Lee, Stan, Origins of Marvel Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1974; Marvel Entertainment Group, 1997 reissue, ISBN 0-7851-0551-4)

McLaughlin, Jeff, ed. Stan Lee: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi, 2007), ISBN 978-1578069859

Ro, Ronin. Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution (Bloomsbury USA, 2005 reissue) ISBN 1-58234-566-X

Raphael, Jordan, and Spurgeon, Tom. Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book (Chicago Review Press, 2003) ISBN 1-55652-506-0

Simon, Joe, with Jim Simon. The Comic Book Makers (Crestwood/II, 1990) ISBN 1-887591-35-4; reissued (Vanguard Productions, 2003) ISBN 1-887591-35-4

External links

POW! Entertainment (official site)

Stan Lee's Fan Site

McCave, Joseph. "SDCC 2009: Stan Lee Talks 'Time Jumper'!" FearNet.com, July 27, 2009

Framingham, Mass. "Myth and the Hero's Journey: Big Screen Blockbusters - Star Wars, Spider-Man Tell Timeless Tales", Daily News (May 5, 2002), by Chris Bergeron

Archive of "Fast Chat: Stan Lee". Newsday, April 1, 2007. Online version March 31, 2007.

Stan Lee at ComiCon in Seattle

Stan Lee at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators

Audio/video

Audio of Merry Marvel Marching Society record, including voice of Stan Lee

Stan Lee telling his life story at Web of Stories

Comic Geek Speak: Episode 83 - Stan Lee interview podcast, December 12, 2005

Mahalo Daily with Veronica Belmont: "MD044 - Stan Lee Interview", January 28, 2008

Stan Lee receives 1st New York comics legend award April 17, 2008

"Authors@Google: Stan Lee", Authors@Google, "AtGoogleTalks", YouTube, July 18, 2008. (Video podcast)

(Radio broadcast)

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