9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Stan Lee

During an era where comics were highly censored and supervised, Stan Lee was the first to incorporate drug use into his stories, through a Spider-Man storyline where Harry Osborne takes LSD

In 2003 he created Stripperella, an adult cartoon, with the help of Pamela Anderson who voiced the character

Stan Lee created more than 200 characters in total for the Marvel universe, including the Avengers, the original X-Men, the Fantastic Four and many others…

Stan Lee never went to… the hairdresser. As he said in his biography, ‘All of my adult life I never went to the hairdresser. My wife Joanie always cuts my hair for me.’

At first Stan Lee wanted the Hulk to be… grey. But the printer who edited his comics could not maintain colour consistency. He thus became green starting with the second issue.

He is the wealthiest filmmaker in history. Always credited as an executive producer, he made £8.5 billion total for all the films featuring his characters

The very first hero he created was the Destroyer, a journalist captured by Nazis and genetically transformed by German scientists. He appeared for the first time in October 1941

Before his success he wrote celebrity obituaries at a New York press office. A job which he quit because it was too ‘depressing.’ We can definitely sympathise…

Stan Lee briefly went from Marvel to DC Comics. In a series entitled Just Imagine, he developed his personal vision of the DC heroes, Superman becoming a Kryptonian police officer accidentally teleported to Earth…