Stan Lee : a life in comics / Liel Leibovitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leibovitz, Liel, 1976- author.

Series:

Jewish lives.

Jewish lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lee, Stan, 1922-2018.

Lee, Stan.

Comic books, strips, etc--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]

Summary:

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created—Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four—occupy Hollywood’s imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology. This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee’s ideas as it does on his unlikely rise to stardom. It surveys his cultural and religious upbringing and draws surprising connections between celebrated comic book heroes and the ancient tales of the Bible, the Talmud, and Jewish mysticism. Was Spider-Man just a reincarnation of Cain? Is the Incredible Hulk simply Adam by another name? From close readings of Lee’s work to little-known anecdotes from Marvel’s history, the book paints a portrait of Lee that goes much deeper than one of his signature onscreen cameos.About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.More praise for Jewish Lives: “Excellent.” – New York times “Exemplary.” – Wall St. Journal “Distinguished.” – New Yorker “Superb.” – The Guardian

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. So What’s the Risk?

2. Stan Lee Is God

3. Getting in the Way

4. Playwright

5. The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine!

6. I Don’t Need You!

7. With Great Power

8. We Only Fight in Self-Defense!

9. Face Front!

10. My Own Power Has Never Been Fully Tested!

11. This Long-Awaited Leap

12. Part of a Bigger Universe

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-25226-9

OCLC:

1148881832