100 Entrepreneurs Who Changed The World
84. Lee, Stan
“I’m sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, “Stan, write something,” and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I’ll just sit down and I’ll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I’m better doing a rushed job because if it isn’t something that’s due quickly, I won’t work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I’ll do it.”
Stan Lee is an American artist, comic book writer, editor, publisher, producer, television host, actor, and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. He co-created so many of the legendary comic heroes, such as Spiderman, the Hulk, X-Men, Iron Man, and Thor. To this day his characters are larger than life, as Marvel movies such as The Avengers and Captain America smash box office records. Lee has children ages 2 to 80 sleeping in Spiderman pajamas and counting down the days till the next Avengers movie. From theme parks and video games to merchandize of every kind imaginable, the Marvel Empire is vast and valuable. Marvel has crafted, with their cinematic universe, the largest project of interconnecting movies ever made.
