The popularity of the Stan Lee cameo proved everything the Marvel Universe stands for
by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times
Nov 13, 2018
2 minutes
Everything that Stan Lee did was super-sized.
Where other writers created worlds, he created a universe populated by heroes blessed, or cursed, with special powers. Their conflicts, internal and external, played out across skylines and time warps, rearranged cities, destroyed planets. Their success created franchises available on multiple platforms, everything aimed at becoming more eyeball-battering, eardrum-splattering, boundary-breaking than whatever came before.
Everything, that is, except
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