Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.
Stan LeeI had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.
Stan LeeI think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.
Stan Lee