"I just hoped the books would sell, and I’d keep my job and be able to pay my rent," he said. Lee said he never imagined when he started in the comics industry in 1939 that his characters would become the foundation for a multibillion-dollar industry.
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He’s just full of energy and he just feeds off what he is given.” “Sometimes when he does panels or long trips, he gets burned out, but when he gets out on stage in front of everybody it's like he just woke out of bed. Anderson said that he is constantly amazed by Lee’s level of energy and involvement at age 93. Instead, Lee's manager Max Anderson summarizes major plot points from those books so Lee knows what is happening. Besides, I am so busy doing new stuff, I probably couldn’t have time to read them, even if I could read.” Well, I can see them with a magnifying glass if I read a word at a time, but that’s no fun.
"Not only has my hearing gotten bad, my eyesight is also bad and I can’t read the damn stories. When asked about Marvel Comics' current take on his creations, like exploring gender by turning Thor into a woman or prominent journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates’ current “Black Panther” storyline, Lee hesitated to comment. “So, I designed this pin, which is a black hand shaking a white hand with the word ‘respect’ over it.” “My daughter (JC Lee) said to me once, 'Why don’t we do something to get more friendliness between blacks and whites, instead of all of these problems?'” Lee said. Lee recently launched, an initiative, symbolized by a pin, to unite people in response to racially motivated violence in the country. But if you can get a story that has a nice moral angle to it, why not?” The one thing I tried not to do is preach. We also have an Indian superhero called Chakra. We have a new Latino character at POW! Entertainment. I tried to get black characters and Latino characters. I tried in the stories to make it that everyone could get together well. But I hoped that when someone finished reading the story, in some way he’d have a slightly better attitude toward the world and people and so forth. “I tried to put a lot of social commentary in but tried to not make it read like social commentary,” Lee said of his writing philosophy. What Lee was able to share about his POW! stable of characters reflected a continuity of socially conscious and culturally diverse themes that he began at Marvel with stories about flawed superheroes wrestling with real-world issues. I can’t tell most because they are secret.” "We have some movies that are in the works now, and I am kind of excited about them. “I have another little company of my own called POW! Entertainment, which, of course, stands for Purveyors of Wonder,” he said. Yes, Lee is still creating new superheroes with collaborators, and he said he has no plans to slow that down anytime soon. So, it helps me to come up with more stories that I’m sure fit in the area that they like.”
From a selfish point of view, when you talk to the fans you learn what they like. And I feel if you have them, the least you can do is pay attention to them and make them be glad that they are fans. Lee said his fans are what has kept him going, even after retiring from Marvel Comics in the late 1990s. Lee, who started working in comics in 1939, began making what would become hundreds of convention appearances after co-creating iconic characters like the Hulk, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Black Panther and Thor in the 1960s and 1970s for Marvel.
“I think I was here once for a convention some years ago,” Lee said of Cincinnati during an interview conducted in late July. "It was great." Lee, whose comic book career spans more than 75 years, announced in May that after he turns 94 in December he will only attend convention events near his home in California. “It’s an honor for the expo," said David Wray, expo artist director. The Cincinnati Comic Expo, which runs Friday through Sunday at the Duke Energy Convention Center, will be the 93-year-old Lee's last convention appearance ever in the Midwest, organizers said. CINCINNATI - Stan Lee's visit to the Cincinnati Comic Expo this weekend might not be his first trip to the Queen City, but for fans of the legendary Marvel Comics creator it should be the most memorable.
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