01948cam a2200265 i 4500 428835213 ER5 20200629120000.0 190919s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019950942 9780300230345 0300230346 ER5 rda Leibovitz, Liel, 1976- Stan lee : a life in comics / Liel Leibovitz. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020. pages cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Jewish lives "By any measure at our disposal, few artists have had so much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created-Spider-Man and Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Doctor Strange, 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. But despite his great visibility, Stan Lee has been hiding in plain sight, remaining famously elusive about the events and the inspirations that led him to his famous creations. This spiritual biography focuses as much on Lee's ideas as it does on his unlikely rise to stardom, surveying his cultural and religious upbringing and drawing 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 brief cameos, giving readers a glimpse of the man in full"-- Provided by publisher. 20200629. Jewish lives.