Pop Culture has generally been defined by outsider culture. Marvel Comics’ creator Stan Lee personified this with X-Men & Black Panther. On the occasion of his passing, Todd Burroughs, Eddie Conway, and Kalima Young examine Lee’s complex legacy
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Stan Lee and Marvel Comics were a big part of my growing up. I've enjoyed his work since. He is the one that showed me as a little black kid that I too could imagine myself a super hero. Rest in peace Stan Lee and Thank you!
My son is 43 now but he had LD problem so got him to read comic books, it worked!
He became interested in reading & increased his confidance to read books.. He still reads a lot today.
🌌💥🗯 EXCELSIOR MR. LEE 🕶💫🌃
Thank you for dreams & imaginations!
Great discussion.
Why is the thumbnail of Mike Pence? That's pretty insulting.
RIP
Love the subtle Roy Thomas shade. I like his books but his best work was a paean to the 40s.
I enjoyed this
Good discussion, but there was not time enough to discuss Marvel's other important black heroes from the 1970s:
Sam Wilson, The Falcon – who became Captain America's best friend and was more of an equal partner than a sidekick, now played by Anthony Mackie in the Marvel films
Luke Cage, "Hero for Hire" (Power Man) – who arose out of the popular Blaxploitation genera, recently featured on a Netflix TV show for two seasons
Bill Foster, Black Goliath/Giant-Man – a brilliant scientist colleague of Hank Pym (Ant-Man) who also mastered the physics of changing his physical size. (Laurence Fishburne played him in the film Ant-Man and the Wasp, but he never grew to giant size on screen.)
Editor Jeffrey St. Clair noted Lee's passing. Saying Lee had sent a $100 check to Counterpunch every year for decades. Aside: Eddie's got a fantastic attitude given what he's been through.
Very influence man indeed
I have never read or watched any comics. No superheros for me. I am glad I spent my younger years reading about human nature Dostoevsky, Kafka, Mann, Zola, Vallejo, Borges…………… instead of a distortion of reality that manipulated entire generations. I find the superhero idea incredibly stupid, narcissistic, and vain.
Kudos to you all for having this conversation.
You're lost.
Radiated Jews… That's cute.
No "win" situation
Being "black" and being "radiated"?
This "news" is less "real" than one should expect.
Boot lickers kneel to Stan
I have your number
Stan Lee was/is a nuclear shill. Keep pretending this is "Real".
This is very depressing, because what these guess are saying is that the only way black people can have a powerful character like the Black Panther. Is if a white Jewish Man created it for you. So you have to protest to see yourself in somebody else's comic book. Here's a good idea create your own. And stop crying about people who decided to create a comic book world. I have nothing but respect for Stanley, but it makes me depressed when I see people like me. Who seems to be unable to create their own comic book characters. I believe that we can create our own worlds. Stop relying on people to do it for you.
R.I.P. Stan the Man Lee💯
I am profoundly disappointed to find Stan Lee even a topic for "Real News' – I can get pop culture on MSM!
Oh. . .it's not. . .Magneato
I'd say Generation X was more influenced by Marvel than the Baby Boomers. For us in Gen X, Marvel's Silver Age came along at the same time we did (depending on which date you accept, Gen X began in 1963, '64, or '65), so we, unlike Boomers, cannot remember a time before Marvel was a force. Most of the characters seen as Marvel icons were created in 1963.
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