Di Cory Massimino. Originale pubblicato il 14 novembre 2018 con il titolo The Man Who Changed Superheroes Forever. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Anche se non avete mai letto un fumetto né visto un film di supereroi, Stan Lee ha influenzato la vostra vita. Con il suo modo di raccontare. Il suo rapporto con l’eroismo. La…

Even if you’ve never read a comic book or seen a superhero movie, Stan Lee has affected your life. His storytelling. His approach to heroism. His moral lessons. His ethos, embodied in the catchphrase “Excelsior!” The Mount Rushmore of modern pop culture surely has a spot for him. His imagination permeates humanity’s modern collective imagination….

With Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book, coauthors Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon provide a balanced biography — thorough, yet a concise 300 pages; sympathetic yet markedly non-hagiographic — of not only the titular comics stalwart, shown punching through the comics page like one of his larger-than-life creations in the playful cover illustration; not even just…