Stan Lee Archive

The world of negotiating is filled with so many pearls of wisdom that even the biggest cynic would readily admit some are tried and true and impossible to argue with. But sounding good and right on paper versus actually following through and adhering to that advice can sometimes be a slippery

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Going all the way back to some of the posts I’ve written about the very first Spider-Man comic I ever purchased (Amazing Spider-Man #296), I’ve alluded to the fact that one of the things that fascinated me as a kid about comics was the sequential numbering system of each

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Silver Age Silliness is the recurring list feature on ComicBook.com where I look at  the earliest installments of our favorite superhero comics and poke some fun at the more crazier/weirder moments. Since Spider-Man is all the rage these days, I thought I’d flip through the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko days

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I feel like I’ve been saying this a bunch lately so apologies for the redundancy, but I probably would have quit writing Chasing Amazing years ago if I didn’t get the sense that there was a passionate readership out there that was actually engaged in this Quixotian “quest” of

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Since any list that celebrates the “best Spider-Man writers of all time” will likely end with some combination of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, I thought I’d mix things up and write a list at WhatCulture.com that looks at the best of the rest. So please check out my

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Perhaps if my very first exposure to an Amazing Spider-Man Annual was issue was ASM Annual #1, I wouldn’t have this very bizarre hang-up about considering them a part of my collection. During a conversation I once had with another blogger and comic book aficionado, this person referred to

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Today, as part of my ongoing acknowledgement celebration of the 50th anniversary of Daredevil this month, I’m conducting a bit of a blogging experiment between Chasing Amazing and Longbox Graveyard. This post, along with one I guest blogged for LBG, look at one of Marvel’s greatest rogues, Wilson Fisk,

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Chasing Amazing was barely a few months old when the first Captain America movie was released in 2011, but I inadvertently started a trend when I wrote this post about my personal relationship to Cap to coincide with the film’s opening day. In the years that have followed, I’ve

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In celebration of Superior Spider-Man’s “Goblin Nation” arc, over the next two months, I’m going to acknowledge what I consider to be the 10 best Green Goblin/Spider-Man storylines. I’m creating this list based on a full array of arbitrary, unscientific criteria: namely historical significance, artwork, creativity and my overall enjoyment of the

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In celebration of Superior Spider-Man’s “Goblin Nation” arc, over the next two months, I’m going to acknowledge what I consider to be the 10 best Green Goblin/Spider-Man storylines. I’m creating this list based on a full array of arbitrary, unscientific criteria: namely historical significance, artwork, creativity and my overall enjoyment of the

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