I hope Stan is okay. Worried about the guy cancelling upcoming personal appearances.
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I hope Stan is okay. Worried about the guy cancelling upcoming personal appearances.
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Uh oh? This sounds bad...
Hope the word gets out in time to save a lot of disappointed fans....We've got just one week to warn everyone...
The Beat story mentioned that Stan also cancelled a number of personal appearances in May. As George said, Stan will be 90 in December. His wife and his doctors understandably probably want him to cut his personal appearances down anyway, and any health flareup just guarantees that.
On a personal note, I missed out on a chance to meet Stan - for the first time - at a convention in Montreal one year ago. I hope he lives another 10-20 years!
I saw Stan at Comic-con in 2007. I didn't get to meet him. I was standing in line to get into the Marvel movie panel, it was a really long line. Everyone was paying attention to the long line of attractive young ladies in red dresses (a resident evil display) going up an escalator when I heard some rumblings behind me. Stan was soming by with an entarouge and went into a side door. I think I took a picture of the back of his head. If I can find it I'll post it. Later Stan came into the Marvel movie panel during the Iron Man segment. He had a really entertaining back and forth with Robert Downey Jr.
Hope he is alright.
Who lives another 10-20 years? Steve Rogers? He's the only one of that age that has any chance, to tell the truth!
John Dunbar (the mod of maple) said:
Update from The Beat: Stan is "totally fine" and drinking a milkshake!
http://www.comicsbeat.com/2012/09/24/stan-lee-is-totally-fine-and-d...
I can see Stan living past 100.
At one of the San Diego Cons (just as they were starting to become too crowded by non-fans), my wife and I were waiting to get into a panel when Stan walked up looking for one of the conference rooms. He was on the wrong level, and I directed him. He was running late so I didn't get to talk to him, but at least I helped him out.
Good to know Stan is well. The world still needs Stan Lee.
...Did Gerry impant it :-) ???
How did he do - ALRIGHT !
George Poague said:
I met Stan Lee once at the Chicago-Comic-Con about 25 years ago. I was in one of the side rooms where the new editor in chief of the line, Tom Defalco, had just concluded a talk, and was standing around answering questions from about a half dozen of us who were clustered about.
Suddenly, there were a few suits or convention ""handler" types who walked briskly into the room and excused themselves for borrowing our guest, but that Stan Lee had just arrived, and wanted to meet with the new guy (apparantly, they had never met before, and this was half-way between the two coasts, so much like the East Coast Avengers and West Coast Avengers, they were meeting in the middle.)
Stan walked in, shook his hand and the two walked down to the far end of the narrow classroom with poor accustics. Half of our fan guys left, on their way to the next talk, and about three of us stayed and waited. In the stillness of the room, I could hear Stan explaining how he always thought that Daredevil #7 had been the perfect Marvel comics, because no matter which hero you were following, Subby or DD, you could understand why each of them were coming to this conflict and what was at stake for each.
He said he liked the pacing, the conflict, and the resolution in which neither one truely lost or won, but the reader could judge for themselves. The new guy nodded and chatted with him, but we couldn't quite hear his comments. They were pleasant and in agreement.
After about ten minutes of private conversation, it broke up, and Stan welcomed us fans down to his end of the room,( I think it was a classroom in the basement, not very soundproof and certainly not a green room or glamorous.) We all ambled up, shook his hand and told him how much we thought of him and his creations.
When it was my turn, and obviously his "handlers" wanted to end this and move to his next appointment, I stepped up and thanked him for all the words he had written, and the colorful vocabulary that he had shared in those early Marvels that I had read and re-read. Stan stopped and said something like, "I always tried to write to a higher level". I specifically got to thank him for using the terms "flaming facsimile" and "juvenille jackonape" in connection with the Human Torch, cause it made me dig out the dictionary and look them up. He laughed and said he didn't remember where he had used them, so I told him the issue numbers, and he laughed even harder that I would have that on the tip of my tounge. I told him that I had fallen in love with reading and using words because of his efforts and that had lead to my choice of careers and ability to write and type...specifically because I would hunt and peck on a manual typewriter one letter per issue to give the bullpen feedback. Stan said something about you deserved a "no-prize" for that, and I told him that I had five blue postcards from Flo and two No-Prize envelopes from him, and he laughed again and made to leave. I shook his hand, and that was it.
I had not intended to tell him all of that, just that I wanted to connect with the man, the personality that I had heard in my head for all of those years. And fate had given me one backstage moment to do so. And I've remembered it ever since.
Happy 90th Birthday, Stan.
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