These days, with comics in newspapers, hardly anybody remembers about the comic books.  I don't even think many people even know more than one person who writes comic books.  That person is Stan Lee.  Stan guided Marvel Comics through the past 40 years and propelled it to the high position in the industry it holds today. When World War II started, Stan joined the army and for three years he made training videos for military service branches.  He was one of nine men to be given the military classification "playwright". At 16, Stan joined Timely Comics which later became Marvel Comics.  He was the youngest editor ever. They were overshadowed by the creators of Superman, D. C. Comics until the 1960s when he helped create the best known superheroes in the world. Stan Lee was a major part in the creation of Spider-man, a radioactive mutant, The Incredible Hulk, a demon looking for inner peace, Iron Man, who is kept alive my science, the X-Men, mutant outsiders looking for acceptance, the Fantastic Four, humans who experienced spacial anomaly, and the Daredevil, a blind man given a second sight by radioactive waste.  During the Marvel Age of Comics, Stan brought new life to classic heroes like Captain America. Stan Lee's works might be the most ever produced by a single person.  In 1972 he was made publisher of Marvel Comics and five years later Spider-man became a comic strip in newspapers. In 1981 an animation studio was built in California and Stan moved to Los Angeles and became the head of Marvel's cinematic adventures.  He helped bring Spider-man and the Hulk to Saturday morning television where people like myself, whose parents were too weird to buy them the comic books they asked for, were finally able to see superheroes. Stan Lee ended his agreement with Marvel and started StenLee.net which is dedicated to revolutionizing comics.  For a short time he worked for D. C. Comics and told the story of the classic heroes in his own style. "Lee's characters span the human spirit, dwelling in the darkness and weakness that is humanity, while showing the hero inside of all of us.  Like all of us, Stan's heroes are plagued with weaknesses and flaws but they perserve and triumph over evil--always doing what is right--sometimes at great cost to their personal relationships." "Only a handful of mythmakers achieve immortality.  Stan Lee has acheived more."