True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee

Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Thor, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and all the Avengers. Stan Lee gave us so many famous pop-culture characters—he only уступив to Walt Disney!
Fans around the world loved him in life and continue to love him faithfully after death. His cameos in films are both funny and expected. His contribution to the development of comics and the film industry is enormous.

But how much do you know about the person behind the name Stan Lee? All his life creating stories about superheroes, he also invented legends about his own life.

Journalist and author of this book Abraham Riesman researched thousands of pages of archival documents and personal notes, conducted 150 interviews with people who knew Stan, worked with him, praised him, and hated him. In this book, fact after fact, evidence after evidence, he finally tries to understand who Stan Lee was in reality. How did he live before global fame? What was the cost of bringing Marvel to the top of the market? And how did he generate all the myths around his biography?

The Stan Lee you’ll meet in this book is as imperfect as the heroes he created. And as great. A man everyone knows, but about whom, it seems, we didn’t know anything. Get ready to meet him again.

Attention! The audio recording contains profanity.