Showing posts with label Stan Lee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stan Lee. Show all posts

Saturday, December 8, 2007

'Spider-man's' Creator's Romantic Side

Did you know that the amazing creator of "Spider-man' and other entertaining super-heroes, Stan Lee, has a romantic side to him? He has written love stories, supposedly based on those narrated to him by others and gotten some illustrators to illustrate comics on various love themes.

The plots may be somewhat corny but nevertheless they provide an entertaining read for all star-struck lovers. With their fanciful suspense-ridden plots and totally unpredictable conclusions that could turn out most heart-wrenching, the reader could only while away hours and hours, engrossed in his or her own delightful romantic fantasy world!

Here's the opening page in his 'Love Stories' comic series...Do click to enlarge the image for a clearer view.Yes, there're more of this type in my library.

Saturday, November 3, 2007

The Vietnam War in Comics (1)

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"Seen from the beginning there is nothing mysterious of America's lost third of the century in Vietnam," so begins the splendid narration in Michael Maclear's non-fiction book, Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War.

Yes, here's a special issue of a Vietnam comic that I treasure. Its artwork is by none other than the great American artist, Stan Lee of the Spiderman cartoon fame. From combat to love, Lee has extensively dabbled in these topics and others like the famous superheroes ones.


In the days ahead, I will pay tribute to this individual who fires up the imaginations of millions in the world today with his works of fantasy and in the grim Vietnam tragedy, a dose of reality.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Reality of War in Comic Form...


Here's the opening front page of the Vietnam War comic I was talking about sometime ago. It seems to be the second published one in a series. Mercifully, Stan Lee, famous creator of Spiderman, has provided conclusions to all the stories in it!

In the days ahead, I'll provide some glimpses of this unusually rare comic or magazine as the artist calls it.

It offers a fascinating account of the war conditions and situations that the GIs found themselves in an Asian country, Vietnam in the '60s.

Hi, Stan, you genius, when is the Iraq War version coming out???