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How the "boy from the deck" became a writer.
Stanley Lee, the most famous and for some, the only famous person from the world of comics, entered this unusual genre through a relationship. The family employed him with his cousin Martin Goodman, who was just launching the Marvel comic book series. There, Stanley brought coffee and bored the real authors. But one day, it happened to be his time to shine.
Namely, in order for comics to be delivered by postal service, each work had to have at least two pages of prose text. It was assumed that readers would not bother with the text, but would just skip over it. That's why Simon hired an office nuisance - Stanley, to write a prose introduction for Captain America. And so Stanley Liber, under the pseudonym Stan Lee, wrote his first story called "Captain America thwarted the traitor's revenge". The story was nothing special.
But the self-proclaimed Stan continued to write. After a series of writings, Simon and Kirby allowed him to write comic book scripts as well. Soon he created the characters of Jack Frost and Black Marvel for the world of comics. After success with them, they allowed him to write his first comic. It was a story in a Marvel series called Headline Hunter, Foreign Correspondent, and with that Stan's career took off. But it was strange why this author, who is just at the beginning of his career, refuses to write under his own name.
No, it wasn't just because Stan Lee sounds more exotic. All his life, Stan dreamed of writing a great and successful novel, a masterpiece of literature. For him, writing comics was just a prelude to "the real thing". Those dreams of Stan did not come true. Despite this, the name Stan Lee will forever remain synonymous with comics.
