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Mar 14 07 4:05 AM
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Quote:Wha.. huh? Say WHAT???What universe do you live in??I don't know what the extent of Lee's formal education was, but I doubt that it was out of the norm for his time. Prior to WWII, many middle-class kids never finished high school. College was something only for the upper-class. It wasn't until after WWII that the GI Bill put college in the grasp of every day men and women. And it wasn't until the WWII generation had college age children in the 60's and 70's that college became expected of someone in the middle-class.At any rate, Stan Lee is clearly a highly intelligent, well read and well spoken individual. By the early 50's he was a man in his early 30's, not the 17 year old kid that his uncle had put in charge 15 years earlier. He knew the business inside and out & backwards and forwards. He had served a stint in the army in a position of great responsibility. And let's face it, Stan Lee has never had problems with his ego. He neither felt "lucky to have a job" or was "constantly concerned that he doesn't really know what he's doing." That's absurd. Atlas (Marvel) comics couldn't have run without him and he knew it.He may have been going through the motions, but it wasn't out of feelings of insecurity. If anything, it was because he had higher aspirations. In fact, by the time FF #1 rolled around, he was seriously considering leaving his uncle's business to get a "real" job and had always wanted to write the "great American Novel."He was simply grinding out whatever his boss (and uncle) told him too.
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