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Great book for comic enthusiasts - By: , 27 Jun 2002
Stan Lee has written his autobiography much the way he has written to his Marvel fans, in an easy going & informal style sprinkled with humour. We are invited to see how as a talented writer from a depression-era family, he had his first taste of comics, to soon join the Army (in which he frequently saves the world by indirect means), & finallly returning to comics to co-found Marvel. He elaborates on how comics have come of age from the humble comic strip, pass the Golden Age of Comics, to the current Hollywood craze about alll things with costumes. This book will be an interesting read for both the young & old who know of Fantastic Four, Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk & the X-Men & wish to know of the man behind the scenes, glimpses of how he created them & his thoughts & musings. Amongst these, he reveals the reason for the near-conspiratorial pattern of character names from Reed Richards (R.R.), Bruce Banner (B.B.), Peter Parker (P.P.), Jonah Jameson (J.J.). All in alll, a very enjoyable book & at 250 pages, it is very light & readable in one sitting.

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