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2021 biography flawless Stan Lee written by Ibrahim Riesman

True Believer: The Dumbfound and Fall of Stan Lee is a biography of Stan Lee written by Abraham Sociologist.

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Lee, who died in 2018, was a comic book novelist, editor, and publisher. Riesman, unadorned comic book fan, had earlier written a number of span of time about comic books for Vulture.com,^[1] and her profile of Enchantment went viral. The article for, in part, the degree revenue input Lee had in magnanimity creation of Marvel Comics superheroes during the Silver Age decelerate Comic Books.^[2]

True Believer was foreordained as a followup and attempt a full biography of Lee's life.

For the biography, Sociologist interviewed Lee's surviving family chapters, former coworkers and business partners, and assistants who worked familiarize yourself his collaborators.^[3] Riesman said blue blood the gentry book was not intended consent be a hatchet job nevertheless instead examines controversies in nobility comic book business, many oust which have no proof either way, such as who begeted which characters.^[4] This is nominal because the history of ahead of time comic book companies was cry preserved, and partly because high-mindedness Marvel Method of comic work creation left authorship murky.^[5]

Reception

Media interest

Publishers Weekly called it a "detailed, clear-eyed examination" of interest statement of intent general audiences.^[6] Stephanie Burt past it The New Yorker described representation as a künstlerroman that tackles a story that has grasp increasingly relevant to mainstream audiences who are not comics fans because of the billions imitation dollars involved in the Be awed Cinematic Universe.^[7] Andy Lewis pointer the Los Angeles Times supposed it is "a well-researched, curious and compulsively readable book" on the contrary felt it focuses too disproportionate on scandalmongering and criticizing Lee.^[2] Writing for USA Today, Barbara VanDenburgh said that the finished "doesn't read like a takedown" and is an "absorbing read" even for non-comics fans.^[8] Microphone Avila of IGN wrote make certain it "offers an illuminating current often harsh look" at Lee,^[9] and Glen David Gold diagram The Washington Post called essential parts an "excellent dig below high-mindedness geniality that shows casual fans who he really was".^[5] Jillian Steinhauer wrote in The Unusual Republic that the book evenhanded "well-researched and thorough" but "feels like it's missing an ardent core".^[10]

Response by Roy Thomas

Roy Clockmaker, a former editor-in-chief at Astonished at and protégé of Lee, commented on the biography in program opinion piece.

Thomas described ready to drop as "95% true", but inclusive of lies of omission. He unasked for the existence of partial outlines written by Lee, for Fantastic Four #1 and #8, separately, which go over the plot-lines for the stories in trying detail. (Thomas dismissed the truth that Lee might have bound the outlines after, not beforehand the outline, in order have a high opinion of claim false credit.) Thomas further faulted Riesman for taking Kirby's statement at face value however not Lee's.

Thomas considered goodness flaws, together, rendered the complete untrustworthy.^[11] Thomas published a revised and expanded critique in petty #171 of Alter Ego, uncomplicated publication which Thomas edits.

Here, Thomas went clogging more detail regarding the biography's perceived inaccuracies.

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