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Roy Thomas, Former Marvel Editor, Pushes Back on New Stan Lee Biography (Guest Column) – Hollywood Reporter
The one-time Stan Lee protégé dissects ‘True Believer,’ which he argues undercuts Lee’s recollections in favor of artist Jack Kirby’s version of events.
As Marvel Comics visionary Stan Lee’s long-time employee and de facto protégé, and as a known student of the history of comic books, I suppose I would be expected to denounce Riesman’s book as scurrilous, a pack of lies.
But it’s both better and worse than that.
“In the New Jerusalem they called the United States, you could make it just fine as a bullshitter.”
Thus nakedly, on the third page of his introduction, does Riesman articulate what we soon discover to be the main thesis of his new book,…
