Like Colonel Sanders
Christopher Tayler: The Stan Lee Era, 2 December 2021
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
by Abraham Riesman.
Bantam, 320 pp., £20, February,978 0 593 13571 6 Show More
by Abraham Riesman.
Bantam, 320 pp., £20, February,
Stan Lee: A Life in Comics
by Liel Leibovitz.
Yale, 192 pp., £16.99, June 2020,978 0 300 23034 5 Show More
by Liel Leibovitz.
Yale, 192 pp., £16.99, June 2020,
“... When Lee filed a lawsuit over film profits, it was likened to ‘Colonel Sanders suing Kentucky Fried Chicken’.Continuing payments from Marvel were important to Lee because, as Riesman shows in exhaustive detail, he had few successful creative or business endeavours to show for the rest of his career. A particular cloud hangs over his time in ... ”