Courtesy of Larry Lieber

The Lieber family in 1932: Stan, Jack, Larry, and Celia.

Courtesy of DeWitt Clinton High School

Stanley Martin Lieber’s DeWitt Clinton High School 1939 Yearbook photo.

Courtesy of the Gantz family

Artist David Gantz’s 2006 recollection of Stan Lee in action in 1941.

Courtesy of Rick Dee/Creative Juice Partners

Timely/Marvel artist Ken Bald, Kaye Bald, Joan Lee, and Stan Lee at Leon

Eddie’s nightclub in New York, late 1951.

Courtesy of Rick Dee/Creative Juice Partners

Stan Lee and Ken Bald at Mike Carbo’s New York Comic Book Marketplace,

March 2012.

Courtesy of Larry Lieber

Larry Lieber and Stan Lee, early 1950s.

Courtesy of the Goldberg family

Stan and Joan Lee at the 1961 wedding of Stan and Pauline Mirsky Goldberg.

Photo by John Benson

Stan Lee receiving an award from SCARP (Society for Comic Art Research and

Preservation) at the premier International Convention of Comic Book Art in

July 1968. The award was presented by convention chairman and distribution

pioneer, Phil Seuling, at the Statler Hilton Hotel in New York.

Photo by James Van Hise

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby at the 1975 MiamiCon.

Scott Saternye

Stan Lee lecturing at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976.

Robin Platzer/Twin Images

Stan Lee, mugging for the camera in 1978, at Marvel’s 575 Madison Avenue

offices. A bust of his wife, Joan, sits on the windowsill.

Robin Platzer/Twin Images

Stan Lee in his Marvel Comics office in New York, 1978.

Photo by Jackie Estrada

Stan Lee in the Green Room at the 1986 San Diego Comic-Con.

Raymond Smotherman (wordpress.hegeekshegeek.com)

Danny Fingeroth and Stan Lee on stage at the Wizard World Comic

Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, October 2013.

Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock.com

Paul Rudd and Stan Lee at the world premiere of the Rudd-starring movie Ant-

Man at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, June 29, 2015.

betto rodrigues/Shutterstock.com

Stan Lee and writer/artist Todd McFarlane at the L.A. Convention Center,

October 31, 2015.